{"id":9712,"date":"2022-08-03T22:40:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T02:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/academicsuccess.ucf.edu\/our\/?p=9712"},"modified":"2022-08-03T22:42:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T02:42:25","slug":"student-highlight-grace-plonsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/academicsuccess.ucf.edu\/our\/student-highlight-grace-plonsky\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Highlight: Grace Plonsky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/academicsuccess.ucf.edu\/our\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/08\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/academicsuccess.ucf.edu\/our\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/08\/image-2.png 540w, https:\/\/academicsuccess.ucf.edu\/our\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/08\/image-2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/academicsuccess.ucf.edu\/our\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/08\/image-2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/academicsuccess.ucf.edu\/our\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/08\/image-2-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/academicsuccess.ucf.edu\/our\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/08\/image-2-360x360.png 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grace is part of the Student Undergraduate Research Council and an F-LEARN alumna. <a href=\"https:\/\/academicsuccess.ucf.edu\/learn\/about\/flearn\/\">F-LEARN<\/a> (and its sister program for transfer students, <a href=\"https:\/\/academicsuccess.ucf.edu\/learn\/about\/t-learn\/\">T-LEARN<\/a>) are learning communities that were established at UCF in 2011. They offer a select group of new undergraduates the sorts of hands-on research experiences that are normally only conducted by upper-level students. The students, their graduate student mentors, and peer mentors also form a community that bond during classes and extra-curricular socials. <br><br>As part of F.-L.E.A.R.N., Grace researched and presented a paper on <em>The Influence of Middle School on Latinx Girls\u2019 Self-Esteem and Confidence<\/em>. Her mentors were  Her biggest advice for students interested in undergraduate research? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Don&#8217;t be afraid to cold-email and ask your professors for help!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to acting as research mentors, faculty are great resources for answering questions, advising on further readings, and helping students find resources. UCF is lucky to have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/faculty\/\">world-renowned professors<\/a> studying everything from ancient Babylonian communication systems to jet skis. Often, students gain mentors and positions in labs\/ independent research experience simply by emailing faculty whose research they find interesting. This can be daunting process, but the Office of Undergraduate Research can help! The <a href=\"https:\/\/academicsuccess.ucf.edu\/our\/forms\/research-roadmaps-form\/\">Research Roadmaps<\/a> webcourse and <a href=\"https:\/\/academicsuccess.ucf.edu\/our\/advising\/\">peer mentors<\/a> can help guide you in writing and refining emails to faculty, to maximize your chances of success. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[75,87,76,46,59],"class_list":["post-9712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-blog","tag-f-learn","tag-learn","tag-psychology","tag-surc-member","tag-undergraduate-research"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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