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The aim of the new Reflect, Serve, Learn Fair was to give students a wealth of options and encourage them to actively seek out service opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Samantha Frost \u201919, a psychology student from Long Island, N.Y., gathered more than a dozen brochures at the fair\u2014falling in love with projects as near as south St. Petersburg and as far away as the Dominican Republic. &#8220;I love this because there were so many things to fit whatever your situation is,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t have a car, but there were some places so close by I could grab an Uber and just go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Porter said the fair will become the centerpiece in a proactive approach to service-learning promotion for projects outside the curriculum. &#8220;This is a great first step in the direction we are taking the Office of Service-Learning,&#8221; he said. 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