Spring 2025 Projects

Ashlyn Carpenter & Cayleigh Martin

ENGL 1302 - English Composition II with Prof. Becky Villareal

My project includes assisting teachers, running errands, reading to or assisting students, playing activities with students. For three hours a day I worked with many different students who all are learning differently I was open minded, up for the challenge, and adjusted as needed. I worked with teachers and students of McDade ISD Elementary grades Pre-K through Second Grade.

Joshua Dube

ENGL 2328 - American Literature: Civil War to the Present with Prof. Becky Villarreal

My service learning project was a Library Aide to our Volunteer Elementary School Librarian, Mrs. Laurey Wolf. I worked along with my sister Kelsey in February and March during our office aide class period. We assisted Mrs. Wolf in sorting and re-shelving the entire library, dusting the shelves, as well as any other tasks she had us do. Mrs. Wolf had to re-index the books herself though.

Jacquelyn Sheu, LeTeshia Cook, Jasmin Gill, Erin Holt, Eliana Marquez, & Nancy Reynosa

DYHG 2102 - Applied Community Dentistry with Prof. Michelle Landrum

Students participated in a service-learning project with the Arc of the Capital Area during the fall and spring semesters. The students conducted a needs assessment and designed, implemented, and evaluated an oral health education program aimed to improve the oral health of participants with intellectual disabilities.

Vy Tran, Mohammad Zahir, Kaitlyn Whatley, & Brittney Bunkley

DYHG 2102 - Applied Community Dentistry with Prof. Michelle Landrum

Students participated in a service-learning project with the Arc of the Capital Area during the fall and spring semesters. The students conducted a needs assessment and designed, implemented, and evaluated an oral health education program aimed to improve the oral health of participants with intellectual disabilities.

Socorro Rodriguez, Emelyn Macias, Jessica Dumas, Tara Frazier, Mairany Sanchez, & Sharoline Turk

DYHG 2102 - Applied Community Dentistry with Prof. Michelle Landrum

Students participated in a service-learning project with a 2nd grade class at Harmony Science Acadamy during the fall and spring semesters. The students conducted a needs assessment and designed, implemented, and evaluated an oral health education program aimed to improve the oral health of the children.

Luis Marin, Meghan Dean, Gabriela Maya, Emily Murillo, Alyssa Hilger, & Maria Hernandez

DYHG 2102 - Applied Community Dentistry with Prof. Michelle Landrum

Students participated in a service-learning project with a 2nd grade class at Harmony School of Innovation during the fall and spring semesters. The students conducted a needs assessment and designed, implemented, and evaluated an oral health education program aimed to improve the oral health of the children.

Analicia Lombrano, Ursula Jaimes, Thu Huong Phan, & Khanh Tran

DYHG 2102 - Applied Community Dentistry with Prof. Michelle Landrum

Students participated in a service-learning project with the Gus Garcia Senior Recreational Center during the fall and spring semesters. The students conducted a needs assessment and designed, implemented, and evaluated an oral health education program aimed to improve the oral health of the older adults.

Lisa Quandt

DYHG 2102 - Applied Community Dentistry with Prof. Michelle Landrum

An after school program geared towards giving children a safe space to be and learn after getting out of school, primarily consisting of elementary students during my volunteering period.

Samantha Gomez

DYHG 2102 - Applied Community Dentistry with Prof. Michelle Landrum

My ethics course, which incorporates service learning, motivated me to volunteer with a local organization of my choice. I decided to volunteer with Manos De Cristo, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering low-income individuals by providing essential needs such as Oral care, food, clothing, and educational services.

Tia Jenson

PHIL 2306 - Ethics with Prof. Azzurra Crispino

My project involves an essay explaining Kantian and virtue ethics and how volunteering as a proofreader fulfills an ethical duty and encourages the common good. I worked with Distributed Proofreaders. 

Aneela Faheem & Ayesha Faheem

PHIL 2306 - Ethics with Prof. Azzurra Crispino

I am working with GAMRC. I tutor refugee girls and teach them English. 

Andres Botero

ENVR 1301 - Environmental Science with Prof. Elena Keen

The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences ENVR - 1301 Introduction of Environmental Science students completed a service-learning project as a part of their semester curriculum. The project was developed in coordination with ACC’s Office of Energy and Sustainability, partnering with service-learning classes to survey, research, map, and plant trees on ACC campuses to meet the City of Austin’s goal of 50% tree cover by 2050. Students in this section of ENVR 1301 used tree canopy data collected on ACC campuses to research and reflect on the environmental, economic, and social benefits of trees. Additionally, the project met course objectives by showing the connectivity of trees with air, soil, water, and urban landscapes.