{"id":583,"date":"2008-10-03T11:47:29","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T15:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=583"},"modified":"2017-06-22T10:28:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T14:28:34","slug":"international-business-honors-major-participates-in-month-long-service-project-in-amazon-rainforest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2008\/10\/international-business-honors-major-participates-in-month-long-service-project-in-amazon-rainforest\/","title":{"rendered":"International Business Honors major participates in month-long service project in Amazon rainforest."},"content":{"rendered":"
\"James
James R. Riach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIf mosquitoes were made of chocolate, the Amazon trip would have been perfect,\u201d said Yirama<\/strong> \u201cCatalina<\/strong>\u201d Medina<\/strong>, an International Business Honors (IB Honors) major in the College of Business Administration, with a second major in economics.<\/p>\n

One of students from Florida International University to journey deep into the Amazon rainforest\u2014part of the first-time offering of the course in the university\u2019s Honors College\u2014Medina was interested because of her \u201cfascination about the world,\u201d and her desire \u201cto travel everywhere I can.\u201d<\/p>\n

Equally important was her commitment to service, a commitment she could fulfill on the Amazon trip, which centers on community service projects.<\/p>\n

She had already participated in a college Global Leadership and Service Project (GLSP) to Thailand, spending ten days in Bangkok working at a pre-school that rescues children living on the streets. Her interest in education prompted her to develop an Amazon project \u201cto study the effect of external influences on the education system\u201d in the remote area where the group was based.<\/p>\n

\"Devon
Devon Graham<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Students seek ways to make experience sustainable.<\/em><\/p>\n

Post-trip, group members are working to establish a new university student organization called Pathfinders, designed to manage entrepreneurial initiatives in the locale. Medina\u2019s business courses have given her the background to propose efforts such as micro-lending as a way to \u201ccreate more and longer-term projects,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

And despite the mosquitoes, she felt \u201cthe environment is just magical, and the harmony of the birds, frogs, and rain, beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another IB Honors student helps with logistics.<\/em><\/p>\n

Norman Uriarte<\/strong>, an IB Honors major, who has participated in multiple GLSPs, including one he organized to Nicaragua in late 2005, early 2006, in addition to having gone on a study abroad program to Australia, organized by the university\u2019s Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), is deeply committed to the idea of global service projects .As vice president of Panorama Services and Travel, he handled much of the travel planning, including the international flights through Grupo TACA.<\/p>\n

\"Eleven
Eleven students, including an International Business Honors major, traveled into the Amazon rain forest on the inaugural month-long service project, part of a course in the Honors College.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI was able to talk to the professors\u2014James R. Riach<\/strong>, instructor, Department of Environmental Studies, and fellow of the Honors<\/p>\n

College; and Devon L. Graham<\/strong>, adjunct professor, Honors College\u2014who teach the course and led the trip about my experiences, about what worked and what didn\u2019t,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Learn more.<\/em><\/p>\n

For more information about the course and the Amazon trip, which occurred during July, 2008, visit http:\/\/hon.fiu.edu\/~peru<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIf mosquitoes were made of chocolate, the Amazon trip would have been perfect,\u201d said Yirama \u201cCatalina\u201d Medina, an International Business Honors (IB Honors) major in the College of Business Administration, with a second major in economics. One of students from Florida International University to journey deep into the Amazon rainforest\u2014part of the first-time offering of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[631,1160,1235,2027],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28425,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/28425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}