Service-LearningBy:

Tiffany McCoy

Service-Learning

Service Learning is the method through which citizenship, academic, subjects, skills, and values are taught. (Keys to Success-VSU Edition, p. 391).

Benefits of Service-Learning Increases retention Provides quality education Enhances personalized education for students. Teaches positive values, leadership, citizenship and

personal responsibility Encourages faculty to be more innovative and creative

in their teaching Helps with community education Teaches job skills and prepares students for careers

after college Increases campus-community collaboration and

partnerships› (Keys to Success- VSU Edition, p. 392)

Shamrock Shamrock is Kappa Delta’s

Philanthropy. The event is for the organization

Prevent Child Abuse. All money raised goes straight to the

Prevent Child Abuse fund.

Shamrock’s Flag Football Tournament

Each year Kappa Delta hosts a Flag football tournament to raise funds for Prevent Child Abuse.

15-20 teams compete on average annually.

Teams are required to pay an entry fee of $125 dollars. Donations are also accepted for greater amounts

Shamrock Flag Football Tournament Ctd.

The tournament lasts two days total. It begins at 8 am, and goes until 10

p.m. the first day. The second day it begins again at 8

a.m. and ends around 5 or 6 p.m.

Photos from Tournament

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Relay for Life Relay for Life is an event that goes on from

7pm- 7am. All of the funds and proceeds raised go

towards the American Cancer Society. The American Cancer Society Relay For Life

is a life-changing event that gives everyone in communities across the globe a chance to celebrate the lives of people who have battled cancer, remember loved ones lost, and fight back against the disease

Relay for Life Ctd. At Relay, teams of people camp out at a local

high school, park, or fairground and take turns walking or running around a track or path.

Relay For Life is more than just a fundraiser. It’s a life-changing experience. At Relay, every person in the community has a chance to celebrate, remember, and fight back. And every person who participates joins others around the globe as part of this worldwide movement to end cancer.

Relay for Life Pictures

Benefits Gained Some different benefits that I gained while

participating in service learning include: responsibility, obligations, finding out more information, helping out people, meeting new people, and influencing people’s lives positively.

Service learning is something that everybody should partake in. It benefits so much and really helps people out.

Throughout all of my service learning I benefited a lot, and learned things that I never would have known.

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