Community Service
Clay cleaning the coast.
Students in my Chem 101 and Chem 344 class have the pleasure of performing 5 hours of community service.
Why community service?
- Enriches the community
- Empowers students to make a difference
- Promotes life satisfaction, self esteem and stress relief
- Strengthens social and community bonding
- Enhances personal knowledge and communication skills
- Saves resources
Below is a brief list of some of the community service events my students have done:
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 Kalynn and her mom serving meals to food insecure individuals.
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Environmental Cleanup and Care:
- Coastal Cleanup (Surfrider Beach Cleanup and Coastal Cleanup Day)
- Resource Conservation Partners
- Weeding non-native vegetation (Ventura Wildlife Pond Restoration Project, Santa Barbara Channelkeeper and Channel Islands Restoration)
Food Insecurity:
- Picking fruits and vegetables at farms and people’s homes through Food Forward
- Serving meals to food insecure individuals (Family to Family, Homeless Shelters, Cooking Advocate)
Community Enrichment:
- Habitat for Humanity
- Educate elementary school students on sustainability
- Teaching and supporting students with learning and physical disabilities
- March for Science
CI sustainability:
- Make sustainability awareness announcement green screens at CI
- Document type and number of trees at CI
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Photos of Community Service
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 At March for Science.
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 Picking carrots for the food insecure.
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 Feeding residents at Pescadero Lofts, a sliding scale housing system.
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 Identifying trees at CSUCI.
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 Cleaning our beaches.
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 Pulling out the invasive ice plant species.
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