The Career and Service-Learning Showcase encourages enrolled students and full- and part-time employee mentors to share their work in poster or oral-presentation formats and to celebrate their achievements and accomplishments that positively influence individuals, communities, and societies. Career and service learning provides the opportunities to acquire knowledge and develop values, attitudes, and beliefs for life-long learning as well as a higher sense of purpose.   

Eligibility and Responsibilities

• Students must: 

  • • be enrolled in a program at Mount Aloysius College and present at the Career and Service-Learning Symposium

    • present the project at the Symposium.

• Mentors must:

• • • • be full- or part-time employees of Mount Aloysius College and supervise all aspects of the project.

Submission Guidelines and Process

Students will present their career and service learning project via a poster presentation.

• Please see the Career and Service-Learning Project Examples Document for a full list of career and service-learning project possibilities

Steps to Participate:

1. 1. Complete the Career and Service-Learning Application to Participate by March 28, 2025, so we can appropriately plan the symposium. Please make sure to secure your mentor's approval.

      • • Required information for the application

          • List the Names of Student Participants:

          • Course Number, Name, and Semester:

          • Faculty Mentor’s Name: 

          • Community Partner: 

          • Title of Presentation: 

          • Abstract (50 words or less): 

   2. Submit the Career and Service-Learning Poster Form by April 21, 2025.  Your poster will be printed in the Support Center at no cost to you and your poster will be shared on the Career and Service Learning Site.

      • • Career and Service-Learning Symposium Poster Required Criteria:

• • • • • Name(s) of Mount Aloysius College student participants

        • Course title

        • Course instructor 

        • Community Partner name

        • Brief description of community needs that were addressed in the project

        • Brief description of the project

        • Include information about your evaluation AND reflection

        • Brief description of how the project related to the learning goals and objectives of the course (hint: you’ll need your syllabus)

        • Pictures from the project and resources

          • Tools from the project (if applicable)

          • Examples of pamphlets, videos, etc. that were created as a result of your project

1. 3. Watch carefully for an email from the Career and Service-Learning Chair with instructions on when and where to pick up and deliver your printed poster for display during Student Experiential Learning Week.

   4. Join your poster by 3:15 p.m. on April 24, 2025, and be ready to explain your project to interested parties.

   5. Have fun sharing your knowledge!  

Guidelines and Process by Presentation Format

1. 5. • Poster Guidelines and Process:

        • • All posters must: 

            1. be 36 inches wide by 24 inches tall

            2. have a white background

            3. include a title in large font across the top and identify the career and service learning researchers (student and mentor) below in smaller font

            4. include a description of the project including the needs of the community partner that were addressed

            5. include a brief description of how the project related to the learning goals and outcomes of the course (see syllabus of the course to identify goals and outcomes)

            6. include pictures of people, resources, etc. 

            7. include a refection and/or evaluation of the successes and areas of growth identified

          • Please refer to Poster Template -  Career and Service-Learning Poster Template  

• The following link/spreadsheet shows the Intent to Participate for April 2024.

• Please enter your poster presentation at the form above by April 12.

• Poster Intention Spreadsheet

Please direct questions to the Career and Service-Learning Committee Members.