 Keep track of your volunteer timeStudents can download a Community Service/Volunteer Hours Log on our Forms page.
| Stanbridge Community ServiceA crucial aspect to the Stanbridge program is student interaction with the local surrounding community. Our campus community service group has donated their services to food banks, Habitat for Humanity, Second Harvest Food Bank, parks, car washes, sociology learning projects, toiletry drives, Arbor Day planting, and environmental activities. The students receive community service credits as we work hard to bridge the gap between our local community and the classroom community by creating service projects that revolve around current curriculum.
This year, Stanbridge kicked-off the 2011-2012 community service program with a trip to the BOK Ranch in Woodside. Founded in 1985, the BOK Ranch Therapeutic Horseback Riding Program is dedicated to providing horseback riding lessons to children and adults with special needs. Photos from the trip can be seen in our online Media Room (password required). On Thursday, November 3, junior high and high school students volunteered at Glide Memorial and on Friday, November 4, a group of high school students volunteered at the Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA. |
Update: Valentines for the Soldiers have been sent! Thanks to all who participated!
This February, Stanbridge students sponsored a special Valentine's Day contest/community service project with a "Valentines for the Soldiers" event. Students from all divisions decorated construction paper hearts with a personalized message, poem or artwork for U.S. soldiers overseas. At a special Valentine's Day assembly, Stanbridge veteran Chris Myers spoke about the troops overseas and students from each division read their messages to the soldiers.
The valentines were mailed to Master Sergeant Carolyne Wilding, a senior non-commissioned officer in the Army currently deployed in the Mideast who served with Chris in Iraq during his 2005 deployment. MSG Wilding is very excited about receiving this special gift from Stanbridge and is looking forward to passing out our valentines to her fellow soldiers overseas. We'll be sure to post a follow-up once we hear back from the soldiers. Thanks again to all who participated!
Artwork by Stanbridge graduate Caton Kelley
The valentines were mailed to Master Sergeant Carolyne Wilding, a senior non-commissioned officer in the Army currently deployed in the Mideast who served with Chris in Iraq during his 2005 deployment. MSG Wilding is very excited about receiving this special gift from Stanbridge and is looking forward to passing out our valentines to her fellow soldiers overseas. We'll be sure to post a follow-up once we hear back from the soldiers. Thanks again to all who participated!
Artwork by Stanbridge graduate Caton Kelley
Update: Meagan's Crayon Drive to aid K.I.D.S. in Cambodia
from Meagan Cameron, K-12 Resource Specialist/IEP Contact
In February, I will be traveling to Cambodia as part of an international aid mission with Kids International Dental Services (KIDS). KIDS is a non-profit, volunteer organization that is based in San Francisco, and is dedicated to providing dental care to impoverished children in third world countries (see the web link below). I will be travelling with a dentist who has previously gone to Guatemala and El Salvador as a dental professional working with KIDS. For me, this will be my first overseas volunteer trip, and a chance to put my experience working with children to use in a very different way, working as auxiliary staff for the dentists.
In the spirit of community service, Stanbridge helped to organize a special "Crayon Drive" during the weeks leading up to my departure. Many of the children that KIDS serves will be undergoing dental procedures for the first time. In an effort to make the experience as pleasant as possible for them, the students collected crayons to give to these children, many of whom are orphans who have never had the joy of coloring. I am happy to report that over 200 boxes of crayons were donated during the Crayon Drive! I appreciate your consideration in this worthwhile effort as well as the students' enthusiasm in organizing this service event. You can read more about the KIDS program on their website. I look forward to telling you all about the experience once I get back. Thank you!
In February, I will be traveling to Cambodia as part of an international aid mission with Kids International Dental Services (KIDS). KIDS is a non-profit, volunteer organization that is based in San Francisco, and is dedicated to providing dental care to impoverished children in third world countries (see the web link below). I will be travelling with a dentist who has previously gone to Guatemala and El Salvador as a dental professional working with KIDS. For me, this will be my first overseas volunteer trip, and a chance to put my experience working with children to use in a very different way, working as auxiliary staff for the dentists.
In the spirit of community service, Stanbridge helped to organize a special "Crayon Drive" during the weeks leading up to my departure. Many of the children that KIDS serves will be undergoing dental procedures for the first time. In an effort to make the experience as pleasant as possible for them, the students collected crayons to give to these children, many of whom are orphans who have never had the joy of coloring. I am happy to report that over 200 boxes of crayons were donated during the Crayon Drive! I appreciate your consideration in this worthwhile effort as well as the students' enthusiasm in organizing this service event. You can read more about the KIDS program on their website. I look forward to telling you all about the experience once I get back. Thank you!
