CE Showcase 2016
Castleton University’s third annual Showcase of Community Engagement was held on January 27, 2016 in the Campus Center’s 1787 Room. The yearly event celebrates exemplary community engagement of the past year and features both curricular and co-curricular projects from across the University.
Castleton Engaged!
Program
Welcome: Dean Ingrid Johnston-Robledo, Dean of Arts, Sciences, and Community Engagement
Remarks: Dave Wolk, President of Castleton University
Remarks: Lyle Jepson, Dean of Entrepreneurial Programs
Community Partnership Award Presentations: Presented by Chrispin White, Director of The Center For Community Engagement to The Nature Conservancy in Vermont and Bill Kuehn, Professor of Sociology
Featured Student Presentation: Dan Errico and Conner Johnson: “Evaluation of Project 240: A Research Methods Civic Engagement Course”
Featured Student Presentation: Elizabeth Diohep: “Democracy Plaza: A Senior Leadership Project”
Featured Student Presentation: Emma Faucher: “Students Gave Green: Giving Tuesday”
Community Engagement Showcase
- Civic Engagement in Contemporary Health Issues:
Advocacy projects created for “Health Issues (AHS 1010)”
Student Presenters: Maddison Baldwin, “Stress in FYS” | Mikayla Dambrakas | Kalvyn Langford | Kayla Moore, “Mental Health and Encouraging Help Seeking” | Vidavanh Xapilak and Kayla Wood, “Social media and Depression”
Faculty Advisor: Katy Culpo
- Civic Engagement in the Psychological Sciences
Boys and Girls Club Project
Student Presenters: Brandi Gontang | Mikayla Shaw | Kaitlyn Skalla
Faculty Advisor: Terry Bergen
Castleton Mentoring Project
Student Presenters: Ally Brandland | Rudy Vadakin
Faculty Advisor: Terry Bergen
Castleton Tutoring Program
(Civic Engagement Program Leadership Project)
Student Presenters: McKenzie Bover | Molly Perkins | Kelly Mesler
Faculty Advisor: Megan Blossom
- Green Campus Initiative
Student Eco-Rep Presenters: Marcos Gallegos | Jess Ralston | Kathleen Webber | Catie Wielgasz
Faculty Advisor: Andy Vermilyea
Castleton University Green Campus Working Group
- Eco-Explorations Camp
Faculty Advisor/Co-Director: Mary Droege
Co-Director: Sherry Crawford
Natural Sciences Department
- Engaged News Media Ethics
Projects conducted for News Media Ethics and Law (COM 3010)
Student Presenters: Eva Clark | Jadie Dow | Arielle Ferrell | Kelly Messler | Brock Pollard | Analeigh Shepherd | Catherine Twing | Jed Zawisza
Faculty Advisor: Dave Blow
Communication Department
- Habitat for Humanity
Student Presenters: Eva Clark | Kalie Dunican | Molly Johnson | Colleen Kunz | Lisa McDonald | Kelly Mesler
- Human Library Project
Student Presenters: Mariah O’Hara | Mikayla Taylor
Faculty Members: Emily Gleason, Monica McEnerney, Anne Slonaker
Education Program
- NY/VT Nurses Unite
Global Brigades Medical Brigade Honduras Trip and Castleton Nursing Students
Student Presenter: Heidi Gillespie
Faculty Advisors: Leah Matteson, Janice McCann, Amy Russell, Margaret Young
Nursing Program
Community Partner: New York/Vermont Global Brigades
- Peer Advocates for CHANGE
Student Presenters: Sam Carpenter | Lyss Eaton
Advisor: Amy Bremel
- Pre-School Art Boxes
A First-Year Seminar community engagement project
Student Presenters: Alina Sarli | Stephanie Cocozza | Tyler Lamphere | Hayden Santerreli
Faculty Member: Oliver Schemm
Art Department
Community Partner: Jan Jones, Castleton Free Public Library
- Right to Play at Castleton
Advisor: John O’Connor
- Rotaract Club
Student Presenters: Susan Gay | Kaitlin Morrison | Jeffrey Rose | Daniel Warnecke
- Solving Litter and a Dumping Problem in a Nature Preserve
A First-Year Seminar community engagement project
Student Presenters: Matt Gay | Rebekah Young
Faculty Member: Bill Kuehn
Sociology Department
Community Partner: The Nature Conservancy in Vermont
- Student Athlete Advisory Committee
Student Presenters: Jessica Phillips | Ariel Mroz-Brewer
Advisor: John O’Connor
- Student Support Network
Student Presenters: Cheyenne Borthwick | Callie Flanders
Advisors: Jamie Bentley and Martha Coulter
Student Support Network, Wellness Center
- Voter Registration and Voter Information Tools
Student Presenters: Joshua Lake | Dustin Lewis | Vanessa Robertson
Faculty Advisor: Rich Clark
Live Music from the Castleton University Jazz All-Star Combo
Paul Moses | Andrew Paczkowski | Mark Pettit | Zachary Shambo
Faculty Advisor: Phil Lamy
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