Michelle Sigler fosters community change through collaborative leadership endeavor

2014 Jun 23

Tinley Park, Ill. (60477) resident Michelle Sigler, a graduate student in the Advanced Inquiry Program (AIP) from Miami University's Project Dragonfly, was awarded a Leadership badge from the university for stepping outside her comfort zone and demonstrating collaborative leadership skills that have helped bring about positive change in her community.

Through her Leadership in Science Inquiry course project entitled "Guiding Our Youth to Reduce and Recycle Plastic Waste," Sigler began a school-wide recyling program at Columbia Central Middle School in the south suburbs of Chicago, raising staff and student awareness and implementing a plastic bag drive and a writing utensil up-cycling drive. Sigler is a science teacher at Columbia Central.

Project Dragonfly offers the Advanced Inquiry Program (AIP) master's degree in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Chicago, Denver, New York, Phoenix, San Diego and Seattle. The community-based AIP degree is co-delivered with Miami's Dragonfly and premier learning institutions accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA). Courses take place in web-based learning communities and on-site at zoos in those locations. To learn more about the AIP, visit http://aip.miamioh.edu/. (If link is inactive, please copy and paste the url into a browser window.)

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