Reno Reporter

Student employees at the University of Nevada, Reno’s Child and Family Research Center are implementing what they are learning in school into their jobs and lives.

Three students have been honored for their outstanding work on campus and in public as part of the Wolf Pack at Work series, a recent UNR news release said. 

The College of Education and Human Development's Department of Human Development, Family Science, and Counseling’s Child and Family Research Center (CFRC) three members are students Shay Jordan, Kayleigh Broadway and JaJa Chang.

“I hope to someday create a movement-based early education curriculum,” Jordan, a student majoring in human development, said in the release. “These kids love to dance, they love to move, they learn how to regulate their emotions with breathing exercises.”

The center provides child care to students in need, along with providing a lab for students pursuing early childhood education and child development, as well as research.

“I always find myself finding some really funny moments every time that I am at work,” Jordan said. “I have a kid that loves to sing Disney songs, and I am a Disney fanatic myself. We were singing 'Surface Pressure' from 'Encanto,' and all of the other toddlers started chiming in. It is awesome to work with this age group because they're developing so quickly.”

Broadway, a student majoring in speech pathology and audiology, noted that working with 2-year-olds helps her learn speech development first hand.

“CFRC is very flexible with their hours, and you get holidays off,” she said. “So, the days you have school off, you’ll also have work off, which is nice. It’s a really great job. I always leave feeling very fulfilled. It is great to get to watch children learn new things every day. And who wouldn’t want to play for their job?”