Community Service
Community service in the middle school will have three distinct components.
The first will involve us helping a variety of local agencies throughout
the year. The VA Hospital, the Heart Association, Heaven's Corner, the
Humane Society, and the local Children's Medical Center would be examples.
On a national level, we will be involved with projects such as developing
a relationship with students on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.
On an international level we will once again take part in Project H.O.P.E.,
the effort to help those people who are suffering due to civil war in
Sierra Leone. Students will have the opportunity to work with the group
of their choice throughout the school year.
2006-07 School Year Projects
- Myers Advisory bake sale for SICSA (Society for the Improvement of
Conditions for Stray Animals)
- Myers - Staples Recycle for Education - bring old ink cartridges to
school - collection box is in the computer lab - the school will receive
$3 for each eligible cartridge with funds going to the technology budget.
(See list
of eligible cartridges.)
- Bretscher Advisory bake sale for non-profit theatre group in New Orleans
- Eikenbery Advisory collection of Yoplait lids for Susan G. Komen Breast
Cancer Foundation
- Myers Advisory M & M guess - funds raised were donated to the
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
- Bretscher Advisory - fundraisers for Children's Medical Center
- 6th grade Bake Sale - fundraiser for Sierra Leone (sending a group
of 10 students to school)
- The DeLotell Advisory collects sample-sized personal care items (shampoo,
soap, tooth paste, etc.), for St. Vincent's Homeless Shelter. This is
an ongoing project. See
St. Vincent DePaul Wish List for December 2006.
2005-06 School Year Projects
- Myers Advisory bake sale for school supplies for Hurricane Katrina
Victims
- Bake Sale during MS and US play intermissions - for Project Hope
- Middle School students conducted a nonperishable food drive during
the holidays.
- Middle School adopted a family. Each advisory had specifics on the
age of the child they have adopted. Items were delivered to the family
in December.
- Myers Advisory bake sale for Heifer International
- The DeLotell Advisory collects sample-sized personal care items (shampoo,
soap, tooth paste, etc.), for St. Vincent's Homeless Shelter. This is
an ongoing project.
- Eikenberry Advisory collected personal hygiene items and assembled
40 bags of supplies which were sent to the YWCA for the residents of
the women's shelter. Nearly 400 items were collected, wrapped, and distributed
to residents of the YWCA women’s shelter.
- DeLotell Advisory collects pennies ongoing for Pennies for Pets (Heaven's
Corner Zoo and Outreach for Animals).
- Hartley Advisory collected Yoplait lids for breast cancer donation.
- DeLotell Advisory did an M&M guess to raise money to buy fleece
to make blankets for children at St. Vincent's shelter.
- A sixth grade student, Lauren M., donated 10 pillows and made stenciled
pillowcases for St. Vincent's Homeless Shelter.
- Bretscher Advisory coordinated sales of candygrams for Valentine's
Day. The candy was donated and assembled into bags by a 6th grade student,
Lauren Z., and her mother. The $400+ earned was used to purchase two
stones at Hospice in memory of Martha Green, the grandmother of the
family the MS has adopted over the past three years.
- Student government organized a raffle which included gingerbread houses
made by the Eikenbery Advisory. Funds were donated to the Red Cross
for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
- 8th grade Health students made tote bags for each middle school teacher
and then stocked them with emergency supplies.
2004-05 School Year Projects
LOCAL PROJECTS
- An 8th grade student organized a nonperishable food drive for victims
of flooding in Southeast Ohio.
- Middle School students conducted a nonperishable food drive during
the holidays.. It was a success. We collected 900 food items as a middle
school!! (see photos)
- Middle School adopted a family. Each advisory had specifics on the
age of the child they have adopted. Items were delivered to the family
in December.
- Miami Valley School Middle School students had the chance to correspond
with American service men and women overseas through My Soldier, a pen
pal program.
Community Service Projects organized by Advisories
- The DeLotell Advisory is collecting sample-sized personal care items
(shampoo, soap, tooth paste, etc.), for St. Vincent's Homeless Shelter.
This will be an ongoing project.
- The DeLotell Advisory is collecting pennies for Outreach for Animals.
The penny jug is in room 17. This is an ongoing project.
- The Hartley Advisory is collecting empty inkjet cartridges. They will
be returned to Staples - the funds earned will be donated to local projects.
PROJECTS ON A NATIONAL LEVEL:
- SIERRA LEONE / Project H.O.P.E. - the committee worked with Mrs. Redmond
on the fourth year of Project H.O.P.E. During the 2003-04 school year,
Project H.O.P.E. committee earn $1943.16. Fundraisers included "Penny
Power" and a bake sale during Peter Pan. Funds go to pay the school
fees of 10 students in Sierra Leone.
- Tsunami Relief - Middle school students held a free throw competition.
Students collected pledges for payment per basket and raised $3, 414.56.
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