Service-learning provides students the opportunity to apply instruction and skills through helping others within the community. If you or your organization has an idea on a service-learning project, we would like to know about it.
Examples of Direct and Indirect Service-Learning Projects
- Tutoring other students and adults at all levels
- Conducting art/music/dance lessons for youth
- Giving presentations on violence and drug prevention or other topics
- Helping at a homeless shelter
- Planning and conducting public forums on topics of interest to the community
- Restoring historic structures and/or building low-income housing
- Removing invasive plants and restoring ecosystems in preserve areas for public use
- Fabricating bicycle racks for downtown business districts
- Serving on nonprofit boards and other organizations
- Participating in clean-up projects in the community
Below are some of the great things Edison State students are doing in our community
- Accounting students are offering free tax preparation in conjunction with Partners of Hope
- Accounting students are calculating votes for the Piqua Community Foundation, Pitch Piqua event (picture)
- Nursing students provide covid/flu vaccine clinics on campus
- Students are participating in Habitat for History at Caesar Creek Pioneer Village, to assist in preserving and restoring the historical village for community education
- Students are helping to repurpose newspaper disbursement racks, by converting them into “little libraries” for placement in the community
Have an idea? Please email the office of Work-Based Learning.