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Between the months of October and December 2010, students of Nibley Park Elementary School worked with artist Roger Whiting every Tuesday on this mosaic mural for the One World Café in downtown Salt Lake City. The café is run by One World Everybody Eats, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing food for the poor on either a free or work-earned basis. They also make their food...
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In the spring of 2011, four students from the Department of Kinesiology and Health Promotion launched a service-learning project at a residential senior facility. The goal was to increase physical activity in the seniors. The original plan was to lead the seniors through exercises that would increase balance and muscular strength. However, with the initial attendance low, the students decided to...
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Through a series of fortunate events, The Preservation Project grew from the ground up into an initiative developed to build youth civic engagement through experiential service-learning while integrating the arts with community outreach and education. Empowering youth to be leaders in the community while developing their sense of altruism is paramount. Co-founder Angie Leonard states, "By...
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Education and communication students at Emmanuel College in Georgia teamed up to create video storybooks for local elementary students as part of a joint service-learning project. The seven stories were written and created by seven education students and fourteen communication students, and the Comer Elementary media specialist arranged the presentation.
"Service learning is a great strategy...
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Hancock County High School students used GPS (global positioning system) devices to create maps of the school's cross country course, local bus routes, locations of fire hydrants, and the grounds of a local church. Students also taught freshman about GPS devices and how to use them. In the process of creating these maps, students developed working relationships with administration, teachers, and...
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In September 2009, The North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee tapped Dallas based nonprofit Big Thought to create an education initiative which would allow youth to have an impact on the North Texas region and showcase that heroes aren't just the players on the field, that they are right in our own backyard.SLANT 45: Service Learning Adventures in North Texas, was designed to inspire youth...
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CAMP Gator (Collegiate Achievement Mentoring Program) is an innovative, service-learning, leadership mentoring program that pairs athletes and non-athlete student leaders from the University of Florida with at-risk elementary and middle-school boys and girls from high poverty schools in the Gainesville community. Many of the mentees chosen to participate in the program have discipline issues,...
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Voicing Experiences Through Service (VETS) is a multi-year, multi-state project funded by the Corporation for National and Community Service and housed at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, Indiana University, Bloomington. VETS supports young people ages 14 to 21 as they build relationships with veterans and collaboratively record oral histories of their service. These histories...
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Students in CHEM 316: Analytical Chemistry Lab partnered with 3 Rochester, NY neighborhoods to test soil for the presence of lead. Collect soil was tested and neighborhood residents received reports summarizing the analyzed data relative to EPA standards. Students learned about the risks and health effects associated with lead poisoning and became skilled in well-established protocols of...
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Students in a Senior English seminar partnered with elders from St. John's Home in Rochester, NY, and conducted one-on-one interviews to capture the elder’s life history. The elder’s story was then turned into a mini-biography of the individual, which was given to the elder, his/her family, and the staff at St. John’s Home.The elders are being provided with companionship, an...
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