At the beginning of my volunteer service, I assumed that elders weren’t mentally sharp and thought I could easily beat them in board games. But over time, I realized how wrong I was. Through each game, I saw how smart and strategic they were much more than I expected. This experience completely changed how I…
A Little Help, A Lot of Heart: Service-Learning Reflection by Lauhityaa Ashwin Kumar
This comic tells the story of my experience with Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly through the Digital Dividends program. Even though this was my second semester in the country, I still felt a little unsure about how I would connect with older adults in a new environment. Over time, I learned that even small…
barrierefreie Architektur
barrierefreie Architektur in Amerika und Deutschland Link to Artifact: View…
Cornerstones of Engineering 1 & 2: Student Final Video Reflections
Throughout the semester, students in Professor O’Connell’s cornerstones of engineering class visited their community partner once every other week to teach a coding and robotics challenge to kids. At the end of their service-learning experience each student then filmed a short reflection talking about the impact of service learning on them, their course, and the…
My Conversations with Karin
My artifact is a quick description on how my conversations with Karin have helped me improve my life in different aspects. Link to Artifact: View…
Participatory Modeling Proposals to Flooding and Extreme Heat in Chelsea, MA
The following artifacts are four student-created StoryMaps–developed in ArcGIS Online–showcasing detailed participatory modeling proposals to engage the community in collaboratively addressing flooding and extreme heat in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Each site includes stakeholder engagement plans grounded in the principles of anti-oppressive community engagement, along with proposals for participatory activities: photovoice, participatory zine-making and/or mapping, causal loop…
Techniques of Program Evaluation: Presentations of Evaluation Plans
Throughout the Spring 2025 semester in the course Techniques of Program Evaluation, four student teams collaborated with four community partners to develop an evaluation plan tailored to the specific needs of their organization. Each student team created a presentation to illustrate their process, findings, and recommendations. This artifact includes all four presentations and represents a…
Service-Learning First Year Writing Reflection Journal
This is a journal with a compilation of reflections from the beginning and end of the semester from each student. They describe how they began volunteering, and how they ended by addressing expectations, excitements, skills they learned, and overall takeaways. They wrote weekly reflections on canvas discussion boards that were very thoughtful, so I wanted…
Collages of Class Projects Completed to Improve Community Access and Presence of Campus Food Forests/Gardens
This artifact is a set of collages of the final presentations that each group made in this capstone classes. This artifact was selected because it demonstrates the amount of collaboration the class entailed and the diverse types of environmental initiatives being worked on throughout the semester. There were 5 group projects in this class. Each…
Jackie Jenkins Scott: Uplifter of Community
In the Black Women Lead course, all students conducted oral histories in which they interviewed women who were featured as part of the Black Women Lead project. After their oral histories, students constructed curriculums for students of Mother Caroline Academy based on their Black Women Leader and the lessons that they learned from the oral…