Projects Report
This report shows the various collaborative projects between UNO and the community.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 11
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 220
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 12
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 132
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Youth Programming, Music/Dance
Description : In partnership with Courteous Kids, UNO elementary music students work with Western Hills Elementary School students who participate in the music elective course and are participants of etiquette classes. The UNO students develop piggyback songs in order to help the Western Hills students remember the etiquette rules they learned in etiquette class. Together they practice the songs and they will be applying their songs at their culminating event, a luncheon. Courteous Kids presented information to students near end of project.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 17
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 272
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 35
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 385
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Climate and Sustainability
Description : UNO Public Speaking Fundamental students and Nathan Hale Middle School students are working side by side to discover effective ways to present to their peers. UNO students are teaching methods of presenting to the middle school students that they can use when they present to their peers about urban environmental issues. The Middle School students create presentations that focus on the environmental impact of communities. The theme this semester is reduce, reuse, recycle and compost. Nathan Hale students signed up to complete clean up days with Keep Omaha Beautiful.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 4
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 156
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 17
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 102
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Description : Students from UNO’s Social Work and Civic Engagement course worked with residents at Royale Oaks Assisted Living and 7th graders from Sacred Heart School throughout the semester to create skits to perform to other Royale Oaks residents. UNO students met with 7th graders and residents about once per week to write, practice, and prep for the skit performance at the end of the semester. UNO students also went individually to Royale Oaks and Scared Heart to work on rapport building.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 15
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 45
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 10
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 25
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Leadership and Mentoring
Description : In this project the two groups worked together to gather coats for Lutheran Family Services. The groups decided to have a competition to see who could gather the most coats. They got together to make posters and then talk about the project. P-16 FLC Student Government.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 1
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 1
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 1
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 1
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Gardens/Plantlife
Description : This is a continuation of a project from Fall 2017 where students from Professor Steve Rodie’s Landscape Appreciation course and Mrs. Rachael Arens’ Omaha Northwest AP Environmental Science students jointly presented proposals for various sustainable material management techniques throughout Northwest High School and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. For the project this semester, ONW used their understanding of composting to build a composter for a Bellevue Restaurant, and to teach the employees of the restaurant how to use it. This project reinforces classroom curriculum for UNO and ONW students by further learning about sustainable materials management techniques in a real-world setting.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 18
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 612
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 35
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 54
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Develop./Physical Disability
Description : Students from SPED 4750 Speech Language Disorders class work throughout the semester in classrooms at Blackburn Alternative Program to assist with language skills. This semester, UNO students worked in Yearbook, Biology, and Art classes. The Yearbook class worked to develop web and print content for Pilgrim Baptist Church's 100th anniversary.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 14
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 252
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 16
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 144
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Literacy, Music/Dance
Description : The elementary students and UNO students worked together to create music and reading videos in their own native language. The videos were used for the Omaha Public Library summer camp.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 20
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 160
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 12
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 72
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Food and Water Security
Description : UNO students from Don Bowen's Photography class worked with students from Montessori Co-op School and Hunger Free Heartland. The students learned about what Hunger Free Heartland does throughout the state of Nebraska. The students created presentations about the breakfast programs that Hunger Free Heartland sponsors. UNO students took pictures at the mock breakfast event.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 75
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 900
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 75
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 675
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Leadership and Mentoring
Description : UNO students from the Arnold Society of ROTC will work with Millard High School Junior ROTC cadets to provide an introduction to the UNO ROTC program, mentorship and a visit to campus. The campus visits will be to demonstrate followership and leadership opportunities for MSHS juniors and seniors. Freshmen and sophomores will also collaborate on two activities at Together Inc. While there students will work on reorganizing the pantry at Together Inc. and preparing garden beds for the organization's community garden.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 10
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 105
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 83
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 61
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Description : UNO students from the Arnold Society of ROTC will work with Millard High School Junior ROTC cadets to provide an introduction to the UNO ROTC program, mentorship and a visit to campus. They will also collaborate on two Mobile Food Pantry service opportunities for Veterans in the community. They are collaborating with Alliance for a Better Omaha to arrange the Food Pantries.