School Name: Washington Community School
“Patriot Bean”
Briefly describe your project:
The “Patriot Bean”, a cart that travels around the school weekly with snacks & beverages, is a project for the Multiple Disabled students to learn valuable skills in finance, social and daily living skills. It also incorporates additional skill development and community based learning.
How does your project meet a community need? The Patriot Bean travels around the school providing items to the faculty and any guests. The snacks are all made by the students and the cart is completely operated by the students. The students are learning lessons while interacting with people in a professional yet safe and warm setting.
How does your project integrate into and enhance your curriculum?
The Patriot Bean began as a special project for the Multiple Disabled students to learn valuable skills in finance, social and daily living skills. The students are learning valuable lessons while interacting with faculty, staff, & building guests in a professional yet safe and warm setting.
If awarded, explain how the funds will be used to improve your service-learning project.
It will continue to help purchase the supplies needed and expand the reach of the program to additional students that are in need of skill development.
School Name: Discovery Middle School
Star Buddies
Briefly describe your project:
Under the direction of our Exceptional Education Teacher, she started the “Star Buddies” program last year. It is a cooperative coffee shop run by 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students both in general education and in the exceptional education program.
How does your project meet a community need?
The school is in a suburban area and with the need to do life skill jobs in the building, it became obvious that simply collecting recycling once a week was not innovative or real world anymore. Offering staff and teachers coffee and tea fills an adult need while also teaching real life job skills.
How does your project integrate into and enhance your curriculum?
Students have since become peer leaders assisting students with special needs in academic classes as well as in Star Buddies when they learn job skills to prepare, serve, and maintain the coffee inventory. They learn to count money, take inventory and communicate with their school community.
If awarded, explain how the funds will be used to improve your service-learning project.
We could utilize the funds to order the necessary goods (coffee, filters, creamers, aprons, inventory materials) to keep the program stable and open to as many students that wish to participates both as a peer leader and a peer buddy. Together we can expand Star Buddies and enhance the space!
School Name: Immanuel Lutheran School – Saint Charles
Shine
Briefly describe your project:
Our whole school spends a day in various age appropriate activities, serving. Preschool go to first responders, elementary make items to donate to various organizations, they deliver treat bags to local businesses , middle school partners with HEROES Care for care packages to military members.
How does your project meet a community need?
Our students go out into our community and abroad. From bringing joy to active military members, 1st responders, business members in our community they are out within the community, serving together for one day. We thank our community for their support and also share the love of Jesus with them.
How does your project integrate into and enhance your curriculum?
Our curriculum teaches to spread God’s love, having a day of service where our students are spreading the love and joy of Jesus is exactly what our curriculum teaches. It also enhances the relationships we have with our community.
If awarded, explain how the funds will be used to improve your service-learning project.
Funds will be used to expand what we already do – creating various items to share with our community: more care packages to military members, gifts to first responders & hospital workers, animal shelter items, food for homeless – and expanding our reach within our community.