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SERVICE-LEARNING COMPONENT REQUIREMENT FOR ALL CHAPTERS
Service Award Open to all IRHS Chapters. Sharing Resources Knowledge and Encouragement. Service-Learning Component Definition: Learning that actively engages students, benefits others in the community by utilizing academic concepts and skills. It includes goals, assessment, reflection, and celebration. 1. Development of meaningful service with a STEM focus: Make sure your project addresses a community need. Service tasks have clear goals, meet genuine community needs, and have significant consequences. This should be broad enough to provide a wide variety of possible projects that can make an impact. 2. Develop an association or connection to what is being learned through robotics: Apply the content to practical tasks so students learn by doing. Apply science, math, engineering, coding, and creative problem-solving skills to real-life situations 3. Student leadership: All, to nearly all aspects of the project, as appropriate are led by students. This is a hallmark of high-quality service learning. Students have a voice in selecting, designing, implementing, and evaluating their service project. It is understood that there will be some adult involvement. 4. Reflection: This is the opportunity to focus on the meaning of the experience. It can be shared, and involves recalling elements of the service experience. It should also relate those experiences to prior situations, beliefs, and learning. Provide structured opportunities for students to critically assess and understand what they are doing and evaluate where they are in meeting project objectives. Students reflect before, during, and after service. This process encourages critical thinking and is a central force in the design and fulfillment of project objectives. 5. Community involvement: Engage community members throughout. This ensures that the end result is responding to actual community needs. It is also teaching the students about civic responsibility. 6. Demonstrate and celebrate: Share the experience with others. Service-learning projects “live-on” even after the initial work is complete. This part of the process can validate students’ service work.
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