By Amaya DeVicente and Gail Hairston
Nicole Funk, a junior from Lexington majoring in natural resources and environmental science with a Spanish minor, participated in an Education Abroad semester-long direct exchange program at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) in Quito, Ecuador. It was through a community internship that Funk received recognition for best of “Pasantía en la Comunidad” (PASEC) work at USFQ. All USFQ students must complete this program in order to graduate, and international students also have the opportunity to complete a PASEC program if they wish.
Nicole Funk (second from left) with Universidad San Francisco de Quito faculty and staff.
For Funk's PASEC service program, she completed a service-learning experience at Instituto Educativo