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From left: School Outreach
Program volunteer Anne
Connor, School Outreach
Program volunteer Molly
Yurick, ATA School Outreach
winner Majlinda MullaEverett,
and School Outreach
Program Coordinator Meghan
Konkol at ATA's 62nd Annual
Conference in Minneapolis.
Profile of ATA's 2021 School
Outreach Contest Winner:
Majlinda Mulla-Everett
This year's ATA School Outreach Contest winner gave a weeklong
summer class on interpreting skills in Portland, Maine.
By Molly Yurick
M
ajlinda MullaEverett,
an ATA
member from
Saco, Maine, won a free
registration to ATA's
62nd Annual Conference
in Minneapolis through
ATA's 2021 School Outreach
Contest. Majlinda won for
submitting a story and
accompanying photo she
took with students at a
weeklong interpreter training
summer class she taught at
Portland High School.
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Teaching In-Depth
Interpreting Skills to
Multilingual Students
Majlinda worked hard
to prepare materials to
teach students in Portland
High School's Exploring
Interpretation as a Career
summer class, which ran
four hours a day for one
week. All students were
high schoolers from 9th
to 12th grade and spoke
Arabic, French, Lingala,
Portuguese, and Spanish. " It
was a great opportunity to
give the students a chance to
learn how they can use their
language skills, " she said.
Majlinda started by visiting
ATA's School Outreach
resources page (https://bit.ly/
school-presentations) to get
ideas for the class and then
built her materials off her
real-life experiences working
in Maine. " My aspiration
was to provide students with
all the tips and knowledge
I have. I wanted to make
sure they understood how
valuable it is to be bilingual
and how to turn that skill
into something that can help
the community where they
live and potentially make a
living out of it, " she said.
Majlinda covered a wide
range of topics, including
understanding the difference
between an interpreter
and a translator, the
languages that are utilized
in Maine, the principles
and ethics of interpreting,
misinterpretations, funny
translations, remote
interpreting during the
pandemic, decision-making,
and certification.
" With the variety of
topics covered during those
days, I wanted to give
students a sense of the real
deal of the business. From
community to medical to
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