{"id":18544,"date":"2025-04-11T21:52:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T21:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/?page_id=18544"},"modified":"2025-04-11T22:07:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T22:07:25","slug":"student-feature-marcy-migdal-2024-fellow-samira-shirazy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/student-feature-marcy-migdal-2024-fellow-samira-shirazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Feature: Marcy Migdal 2024-2025 Fellow Samira Shirazy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Student Feature: Marcy Migdal 2024-2025 Fellow Samira Shirazy<\/b><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/funding\/marcy-migdal-fund\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Marcy Migdal Fund for Educational Equality<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is an annual scholarship awarded to exceptional University of Washington students engaged in work that enhances access to education for both local and global communities. The scholarship (currently $1,200) is provided to up to three students each year, and is open to UW students of all majors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Samira Shirazy, a current UW senior studying Human Centered Design &amp; Engineering, is a 2024-2025 Marcy Migdal Fellow. When introducing herself, Samira shared with the Center for Global Studies: \u201cI am President of the organization <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/students.washington.edu\/avelauw\/about.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AVELA<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u2013 A Vision for Engineering Literacy &amp; Access at the University of Washington. In my free time, I like building Lego sets\u2013I have a collection of over 40\u2013and playing video games with friends!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18545\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 300px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18545 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/04\/Samira-Shirazy-750x567-1-300x227.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/04\/Samira-Shirazy-750x567-1-300x227.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/04\/Samira-Shirazy-750x567-1-375x284.jpeg 375w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/04\/Samira-Shirazy-750x567-1-108x81.jpeg 108w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/04\/Samira-Shirazy-750x567-1.jpeg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: 2024-2025 Migdal Fellow Samira Shirazy<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AVELA is a student-led UW organization that seeks to offer mentorship opportunities and connect with K-12 students while providing academic resources towards college planning, engineering, computing, and other STEM project-based activities. Past AVELA projects include teaching students coding fundamentals, 3D modeling, DNA extraction from fruits, website building, among other exciting course offerings that seek to enhance educational access and build community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">About her project funded by the Migdal scholarship, Samira said: \u201cThe Marcy Migdal Fund provided support for an AVELA class taught last summer. Middle and high school students worked on a 6-week program where they learned introductory embedded systems programming with Arduino. During the class, students were given access to use ChatGPT with little guidance to understand how and what they utilize it for in an unstructured manner.\u201d\u00a0 The Migdal scholarship also covered the cost of equipment needed for the summer AVELA class, and Samira added that they plan to submit the work to a research conference, giving the participants the chance to gain insight on future research projects and course offerings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Marcy Migdal Fund application is open to current UW students. Applications for 2025-2026 wards are due April 23, 2025, at 11 PM (PST).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Learn more about the application process <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/funding\/marcy-migdal-fund\/application\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and click <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/people\/marcy-migdal-fellows\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to explore profiles of current and past Fellows.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Student Feature: Marcy Migdal 2024-2025 Fellow Samira Shirazy The Marcy Migdal Fund for Educational Equality is an annual scholarship awarded to exceptional University of Washington students engaged in work that enhances access to education for both local and global communities. The scholarship (currently $1,200) is provided to up to three students each year, and is<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/student-feature-marcy-migdal-2024-fellow-samira-shirazy\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":700,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18544","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Student Feature: Marcy Migdal 2024-2025 Fellow Samira Shirazy - Center for Global Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This course,\u00a0sponsored by the UW Center for Global Studies is\u00a0focused on the current, real-world policy issues and international negotiations of the European Union, as well as the theory and\u00a0practice\u00a0of international negotiation, public policy and the politics surrounding policy formation.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/student-feature-marcy-migdal-2024-fellow-samira-shirazy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Student Feature: Marcy Migdal 2024-2025 Fellow Samira Shirazy - 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