Projects Report
This report shows the various collaborative projects between UNO and the community.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 3
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 114
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 116
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 1,798
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Holistic Wellness, Youth Programming, Leadership and Mentoring, Physical Fitness
Description : UNO students will develop activities for Live Well Omaha Kids 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Initiative. UNO Students will meet with 6th grade students with Live Well Omaha Kids (Gateway?) to determine activities that 6th grade students are interested in leading around activity and healthy behaviors. UNO Students will then develop lessons and teach the lessons to leaders in the 6th grade classes. During “Day of Play”, students from Gateway will come to campus to play the activities that students designed.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 41
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 574
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 169
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 2,028
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Inclusion, Diversity & Equity, Youth Programming, Music/Dance, Art, History
Description : CultureFest celebrates Omaha's rich cultural diversity. As a collaboration among the UNO Service Learning Academy, Beveridge Magnet Middle School and South Magnet High School, this event features food, music, art, performances, booths, activities and prizes for the community to enjoy.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 8
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 240
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 8
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 8
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Youth Programming, Health Awareness, Physical Fitness
Description : Peter Kiewit Middle School and UNO faculty member Sachin Pawaskar’s UNO Information Science & Technology course will collaborate on FITGirl Inc.'s new mobile website. Peter Kiewit students will provide their recommendations to UNO students on how the website can be improved before its official launch later this year.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 24
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 48
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 24
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 96
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Youth Programming, Gerontology
Description : UNO students from Professor Lyn Holley’s Intro to Gerontology (GERO2000) would work together with G.I.V.E. students from Lewis and Clark Middle School to discuss themes and plan for the Senior Prom. UNO students will have an opportunity to work with Civic Nebraska twice a week in Lewis and Clark G.I.V.E. program on preparing senior prom project. At prom, students would set up activities and food to celebrate the event. Due to remote learning, UNO and G.I.V.E. students will write poems about generations and submit them into an online contests and UNO online.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 2
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 14
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 12
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Civic and Political Engagement, Waste, Youth Programming, Climate and Sustainability
Description : Students from Professor Steve Rodie’s Landscape Appreciation course and Ms. Rachael Arens’ Omaha Northwest AP Environmental Science students jointly gathered information in the Fall 2019 semester on the City of Omaha’s potential plastic bag ban ordnance. On January 30th, students testified to the LB 905 bill committee in Lincoln at the State Capitol in favor of a plastic bag ban.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 29
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 580
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 25
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Leadership and Mentoring
Description : UNO students from Marianna Cruz's Introduction to Teaching ESL course will visit the Learning Community Center of South Omaha (LCC). They will meet their assigned families for the first time. Students will lead icebreaker activities get to know their assigned families. Throughout the course of the fall semester, UNO students will curate learning plans and share helpful resources to guide the families in college preparedness. This provides an opporunity for the UNO students to implement what they are learning in the classroom. Due to remote learning UNO students will create 3 videos that will be shared with LCC and families via YouTube.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 25
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 400
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 25
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 225
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Disadvantaged Populations, Inclusion, Diversity & Equity, Civic and Political Engagement, Youth Programming, Social Justice Awareness
Description : UNO's Intro to Psychology (Thompson Learning Community)and Uta Halee students will work together to create podcasts for The Union for Contemporary Art’s Undesign the Redline around identified topics from The Union. The focus will be “How to have tough conversation around the identified topics.” Eachpodcast will be approximately 5 minutes. The goal of this project is to teach how to have tough conversations by setting up norms and ground rules.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 19
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 285
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 25
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 250
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
STEM/STEM Education, Develop./Physical Disability, Art
Description : Graduate students from UNO Instructor Tami Williams’ Educational Leadership course collaborated with Ms. Danielle Elsasser’s 5rd grade students from Black Elk Elementary and adults with autism from the Autism Center of Nebraska (ACN). This project allowed the elementary students to foster relationships between themselves, UNO grad students, and the clients from ACN through the creation of STEAM based collaboration activities. Some of these activities included making origami, slime, and tinker toys. UNO students benefited by the gained experience of making lesson plans and working with students and adults with disabilities. To culminate the project, origami butterflies that were made during the project were hung on light up trees and given to Black Elk and ACN.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 24
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 984
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 25
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 200
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Poverty, Youth Programming, Leadership and Mentoring, Social Justice Awareness
Description : Students from Dr. Germaine Huber's Multicultural Education Course are partnered with Mr. Craig Wiles' 5th Grade Students from Crestridge Elementary to discuss the impact of redlining in the Omaha community. Both student groups are working alongisde Robbie Summers with Inclusive Communities to create a final poster presentation based upon 8 different components of redlining.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 14
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 588
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 15
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Youth Programming, Leadership and Mentoring
Description : Freshmen UNO students from Dr. Stu Bernstein's ENGR1000, Interpersonal Skills for Engineering Leaders course will teach topics related to their coursework to fifth grade students from Field Club Elementary School on Wednesday evenings. Throughout the project, both UNO and Field Club students will reflect on the project, documenting their learnings to be compiled into a hard-cover book.