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Palmer Trinity School senior Emily Adams is nearing one thousand community service hours.
“I really love giving back to my community and my passion in life is helping people in any way that I can,” she says. “Throughout my life I’ve tried to involve myself in several different community services and I aspire to study medicine to help people live a better and more healthy life.”
One of her major volunteer projects is Breakthrough Miami.
“I went through the program myself,” she says. “As soon as I could give back, I went.”
Adams started in Breakthrough Miami in fifth grade. She continued through the summer before ninth grade.
“After that I was at Palmer,” she says. “I was also going to Saturday program as a scholar.
After middle school, the program is at the University of Miami, but I volunteer more and I also worked over the summer at Breakthrough.”
The summers of before tenth and eleventh grades, she volunteered at Breakthrough as a teacher’s assistant. This past summer, she was a teacher for fifth grade math.
“I teach the students at Palmer Trinity,” she says. “I usually stay with the same group, the class of 2029. I’ve gone with them each year they moved up.”
The Saturday classes are two Saturdays a month. They start in October and run until April.
“Each grade has their main class, and we have electives – dance, volleyball,” she says.
“There are arts and crafts, painting, chess, and board games. The kids really like it.”
She teaches both electives, physical and academic.
Because she’s gone through the program herself, she can relate to the kids she’s teaching.
“I can share my stories with them,” she says. “I understand the positions they are in.”
For high school students, the Breakthrough program concentrates on helping the students apply for college, prepare for the SAT, and explore different careers.
Her goal is to study medicine. She’s applying to Florida State University, Northeastern, Boston College, George Washington University, Boston University, the University of Central Florida, and the University of Miami.
“I’m passionate about learning about the body system and medicine and diseases and I want to help people in that way,” she says.
This summer she shadowed an interventional cardiologist.
“Instead of just being in the clinics, we also went to the Catheterization labs,” she says.
“It’s used when the artery in the heart is clogged. I would observe how he unclogs them by putting in the catheter through the groin. It was a great learning experience.”
Outside of school, she volunteered in the nursery at Christ Fellowship in Palmetto Bay for years and then switched to volunteering in the pre-school.
“We teach them bible stories and then we give them snacks,” she says.
She’s the Breakthrough Club co-president this year. Last year she was the president. She’s also the co-president of the Future Doctors of America Club. She is a Peer counselor.
Adams was a member of the Youth Advisory Community of the Children’s Trust at the South Dade Library.
“We worked together to make a community service opportunity. This past year we met up once a month, at the end of the year we finished up the community service event. We informed people on Microgreens, plants that are food also. We gave boxes or microgreens to everyone.”
Over the summer, she also interned for an online organization, Engaged Local. It was involved with a nonprofit, Medishare for Haiti that gives medicines and food to the people in Haiti.
“My job was to spread awareness on Instagram, so people could donate,” she says.
Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld
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