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Collected Item: “The Zaragoza Project: A Covid Experience”

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The Zaragoza Project: A Covid Experience

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

This item is a screenshot of the documents that Zaragoza leaders used to plan student orientations that accommodated to COVID-19 restrictions. The item was originally created by Catalina Crosse, head Zaragoza leader.

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

For this item, I wanted to highlight the differences in the Zaragoza student orientation for incoming freshmen and transfer students. This is a program that happens at the beginning of every school year. My class, entering St. Mary's in Fall 2019 was the last class to have a normal experience prior to the pandemic. However, since the pandemic, many operations have had to change to ensure the safety of those involved. The Fall 2020 Zaragoza experience was entirely over zoom. With the school now transitioning back to in person teaching, Zaragoza leaders had to the opportunity and challenge to create a Zaragoza experience like never seen before that provided safe interaction among all students and parents. These screenshots specifically showed a rushed project that needed to be approved in a short amount of time that accommodated both to the universities expectations while following the state's guidelines.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

HS3390, #coveryourfangs, Zaragoza, COVID19, StMU, newstudentorientation

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Catalina Crosse

Give this story a date.

2021-08
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