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Projects for October 29, 2019

Local School Projects

Painting the bathroom and cafeteria.

  • Length: 12pm-4pm
  • Max Size: 10
  • Reserved For: Executive Council
  • Meeting Location: Office of University Ministries

Participate in a demonstration to teach students from Augustine more about chemistry.

  • Length: 8am-12pm
  • Max Size: 10
  • Reserved For: SMACS
  • Meeting Location: White Hall Parking Lot

Physics demos with students.

  • Length: 10am-12pm
  • Max Size: 15
  • Reserved For: Society of Physics Students
  • Meeting Location: Modero

Painting of classrooms and bathrooms, some small landscaping items. ***Lunch is provided***

  • Length: 8am-2pm
  • Max Size: 15
  • Reserved For: ZTA
  • Meeting Location: ZTA House

Weathering and staining all of the wood items on the playground as well as railing.

  • Length: 9am-12pm
  • Max Size: 10
  • Meeting Location: Logos Parking Lot

Small landscaping items and organization of school supplies.

  • Length: 12pm-3pm
  • Max Size: 12
  • Reserved For: ZTA
  • Meeting Location: ZTA House

Mulching, cleaning and planting a gardening area.

  • Length: 8am-12pm
  • Max Size: 30
  • Reserved For: Baseball Team
  • Meeting Location: Locker Room

Grass and weed cleanup around the track and football field. Painting the mailbox. Painting the school entrance gates.

  • Length: 8am-1pm
  • Max Size: 10
  • Meeting Location: Student Union Building

Cleaning and weeding the playground area along with removing some of the gravel and sand in preparation for the next renovation stage

  • Length: 8am-12pm
  • Max Size: 10
  • Reserved For: SAC
  • Meeting Location: SLE Office

Painting a mural that is drawn in the hallway. Painting doors. Laying mulch in the flower beds

  • Length: 8am-1pm
  • Max Size: 25
  • Reserved For: Union Jaxx
  • Meeting Location: The Bell Tower

Collecting and delivering school supplies at local schools.

  • Length: 8am-12pm
  • Max Size: 15
  • Reserved For: School of Education/STEA
  • Meeting Location: Bowld Student Commons

Assisting teachers in the classroom- task might include grading papers, decorating a bulletin board, sorting papers, etc. ***Lunch will be provided.***

  • Length: 8am-3pm
  • Max Size: 15
  • Meeting Location: The Post Office

Work with 4th grade students through chemistry activities and demonstrations.

  • Length: 9am-12pm
  • Max Size: 24
  • Reserved For: Organic Chemistry Students
  • Meeting Location: White Hall Front Steps

Local Church Projects

Helping to paint pieces for a wall mural in the kids ministry area.

  • Length: 8am-12pm
  • Max Size: 10
  • Meeting Location: Student Financial Planning

Cutting plastic shopping bags for the ladies of the church who crochet plastic sleeping mats for the homeless.

  • Length: 9am-12pm
  • Max Size: 25
  • Meeting Location: Concordia Lutheran Church

Filling hygiene bags. ***Lunch Provided***

  • Length: 9am-3pm
  • Max Size: 20
  • Meeting Location: Logos Front Steps

Trimming shrubs, weeding, outside painting, setting up for a fall festival. ***Lunch will be provided***

  • Length: 8am-1pm
  • Max Size: 7
  • Meeting Location: Office of University Ministries

Non-profit Organization Projects

Pressure washing and trimming trees at our onsite facility.

  • Length: 9am-12pm
  • Max Size: 10
  • Meeting Location: The Lex

Stuffing and mailing Christmas Cards. ***Lunch Provided***

  • Length: 9am-2pm
  • Max Size: 20
  • Meeting Location: McAfee Student Commons

Various cleaning/organizing projects; bulletin board creations; classroom organizing.

  • Length: 9am-12pm
  • Max Size: 10
  • Reserved For: Center for Intercultural Engagement
  • Meeting Location: Center for Intercultural Engagement Offices

Cleaning, making materials for groups, making child abuse prevention month materials

  • Length: 9am-12pm
  • Max Size: 20
  • Reserved For: Kappa Delta
  • Meeting Location: KD House

Cleaning and organizing.

  • Length: 9am-12pm
  • Max Size: 21
  • Reserved For: Kappa Delta
  • Meeting Location: KD House

Assist with taking inventory of ministry materials on site. Also help weed-eat a fence line and spray weed killer on the base of the fence.

  • Length: 8am-12pm
  • Max Size: 10
  • Meeting Location: Buster Statue

Help organize the ReStore and sort through donations.

  • Length: 10am-1pm
  • Max Size: 20
  • Reserved For: Women's Basketball Team
  • Meeting Location: Women's Locker Room

Framing for new Habitat for Humanity Home.

  • Length: 8am-12pm
  • Max Size: 24
  • Reserved For: Volleyball Team
  • Meeting Location: Women's Locker Room

Planting plants in a community garden.

  • Length: 8am-12pm
  • Max Size: 10
  • Reserved For: Kappa Delta
  • Meeting Location: KD House

College of Pharmacy students will be working at the Northbrook senior living facility to engage with the residents in a variety of activities, in both the small- and large-group setting. ***Lunch is provided***

  • Length: 8am-4pm
  • Max Size: 58
  • Reserved For: College of Pharmacy
  • Meeting Location: Providence Hall

Prepare bags to be distributed to provide food through the holiday campaign called Food for Families.

  • Length: 8am-12pm
  • Max Size: 10
  • Reserved For: Registrar's Office
  • Meeting Location: Registrar's Office

Make snack backpacks for weekend food for school children. ***Lunch is provided***

  • Length: 10am-12pm
  • Max Size: 20
  • Reserved For: Softball Team
  • Meeting Location: Field House

Serve in the soup kitchen. ***Lunch is provided***

  • Length: 10am-1pm
  • Max Size: 16
  • Reserved For: SGA
  • Meeting Location: Student Life Office

Building a cardboard boat for the boat regatta fundraiser. ***Lunch is provided.***

  • Length: 8am-4pm
  • Max Size: 21
  • Meeting Location: Student Union Building

Math tutoring, organizing a file room, and helping in the business office. Painting and playing soccer or basketball with kids.

  • Length: 8am-4pm
  • Max Size: 25
  • Reserved For: LXA
  • Meeting Location: LXA House

Other Projects

Carpet cleaning, touch-up painting, and window cleaning.

  • Length: 12pm-3pm
  • Max Size: 15
  • Reserved For: Union Jillz
  • Meeting Location: Bowld Student Commons

Clean up the shrub beds at the bus stop east of the Bowld and the beds on the south side of White Hall.

  • Length: 8am-12pm
  • Max Size: 20
  • Reserved For: Undergraduate Admissions
  • Meeting Location: South Entrance at White Hall

Landscape clean up around the Bowld and McAfee Commons

  • Length: 10am-12pm
  • Max Size: 20
  • Reserved For: Residence Life
  • Meeting Location: McAfee Student Commons

Working with Facilities

  • Length: 8am-12pm
  • Max Size: 50
  • Reserved For: Center for Academic Success
  • Meeting Location: CAS Office

Landscaping and compost bin reconstruction. ***Lunch is provided.***

  • Length: 9am-4pm
  • Max Size: 15
  • Meeting Location: Barefoots Patio

Baking cookies and brownies for those that serve in our Jackson Community. Writing Letters to show our appreciation.

  • Length: 8am-12pm
  • Max Size: 50
  • Reserved For: ZTA
  • Meeting Location: Coburn Dining Hall

Aiding Widows with yard work.

  • Length: 8am-12pm
  • Max Size: 19
  • Reserved For: Men's Basketball
  • Meeting Location: Locker Room

Cleaning up the park and picking up trash off boardwalk throughout the park.

  • Length: 8am-1pm
  • Max Size: 18
  • Meeting Location: Fountain

Making Halloween crafts with residents.

  • Length: 10am-12pm
  • Max Size: 50
  • Reserved For: Chi Omega
  • Meeting Location: Chi Omega House

Pressure washing breezeways, spray painting rusted steps, blowing leaves and doing general yard chores. ***Lunch Provided***

  • Length: 8am-3pm
  • Max Size: 10
  • Reserved For: SAC
  • Meeting Location: SLE Office

Socializing dogs.

  • Length: 12pm-2pm
  • Max Size: 5
  • Meeting Location: The Lex

Yard and garden work, such as mulching, raking, trimming, sweeping, planting, cultivating

  • Length: 8am-12pm
  • Max Size: 20
  • Reserved For: Phi Alpha Theta, History Department
  • Meeting Location: Jones Suite

Cleaning up and maintaining Muse Park.

  • Length: 8am-12pm
  • Max Size: 15
  • Reserved For: Honors Community
  • Meeting Location: Honors' Lounge

Donating Blood to St. Jude Hospital

  • Length: 8am-12pm
  • Max Size: 30
  • Reserved For: ATO
  • Meeting Location: ATO House

General cleaning and maintenance.

  • Length: 9am-12pm
  • Max Size: 30
  • Reserved For: SAE
  • Meeting Location: SAe House

Clean up trash along the union trails and install wooden railing on the new bridge in the trails.

  • Length: 8am-12pm
  • Max Size: 20
  • Reserved For: Bike Recycling Club
  • Meeting Location: Union woods

Planting trees and mulching beds.

  • Length: 8am-12pm
  • Max Size: 25
  • Meeting Location: White Hall 109

Cleaning up Woodland Hills Country Club golf course. ***Lunch is provided***

  • Length: 9am-12pm
  • Max Size: 21
  • Reserved For: Golf Team
  • Meeting Location: Field House

If you have any questions, please contact Stephen Neu at sneu@uu.edu.