TYPE OF SERVICE

DIRECT

Person-to-person, face-to-face projects in which service impacts individuals who receive direct help from students (tutoring, work with elderly, peer mediation, etc)

SKILLS Caring for others, dependability, patience, personal responsibility, getting along with others, problem solving, people skills…

INDIRECT

Projects with benefits to a community as opposed to specific individuals ( environmental, restoration, food and clothing drives…). Such Project typically have many components and different types of tasks.

SKILLS Developing cooperation and teamwork, playing different roles, big-picture learning, organizing, prioritizing, applying different learning styles…

ADVOCACY

Working, acting, speaking, writing, teaching, presenting, informing, etc on projects that encourage action or créate awareness on issues of public interest (promoting Reading, safety, care for the environment …)

SKILLS Perserverance, engaged citizenship, working with adults, understanding rules, compromiso, systems…

RESEARCH

Surveys, studies, evaluations, experiments, data gathering, interviewing, etc, to find, compile and report information on topics in the public interest (home or building energy audits, wáter testing, flora and fauna studies, surveys).

SKILLS Learn methods of inquiry/problem solving, find information, make discrimating judgements, form and test hypotheses, work systematically, organise, assess, measure, predict and evaluate.