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: 14
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 133
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Health Awareness, Develop./Physical Disability
Description : Students from Dr. Ritzman's Autism Spectrum Disorder class partner with Creighton Occupational Therapy students to make lesson plans for the Fall Festival.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 5
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 150
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 4
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 160
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Food and Water Security, Leadership and Mentoring, Gerontology
Description : Food for Thought is a long-term service learning project that connects the culinary program at Blackburn with the senior programming at Adam's Park. Blackburn students along with UNO students will creat a weekly meal for the seniors at AP.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 5
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 110
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Early Childhood Education, Substance Abuse, Civic and Political Engagement
Description : UNO students will be working with group facilitators to co-facilitate and direct a parenting class group and a family group. UNO students will assist with infant/toddler care, school age kids club, and observing staff facilitated parenting classes.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 15
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 60
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 33
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 594
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Mental Health, Medical Services, Music/Dance
Description : Sound Health; Bringing Music to Medicine is a Service Learning component of MUS 1000, an all-music student convocation. The Service Learning component for UNO students includes guest lectures, readings, and collaboration at Millard North HS (MNHS) during which time UNO music students will mentor and work with MNHS students under the guidance of Debbie Martinez and Mary Perkinson. Students at MNHS and UNO will prepare a program that will be performed collaboratively at UNMC Cancer Center on 12/4.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
None
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 20
Start Academic Year: 2023-24
UNO Student Hours: 8
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Description : UNO students create a needs assessment and implemente a wellness plan for staff at Gateway Elementary. In doing so, UNO students provide staff of Gateway with opportunities and tools to support a healthy lifestyle. KINS 4200.850 P-16
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: 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: 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: 10
Start Academic Year: 2019-20
UNO Student Hours: 180
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 4
End Academic Year:
2019-20
K-12 Student Hours: 30
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Food and Water Security, Youth Programming, Leadership and Mentoring, Gerontology
Description : Due to the transition to remote learning this project was canceled. Food for Thought is a long-term service learning project that connects the culinary program at Blackburn with the senior programming at Adam's Park. Blackburn students along with UNO students will creatw a weekly meal for the seniors at AP.