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UPCOMING EVENTS
April 26
Beyond the Academy Series: Community Reaching in-PU Reaching Out 12-1:20PM, Whig Hall Oakes Lounge "The Black Revolution on Campus" 4:30 - 6:00PM, McCormick 106 1-2PM, 201 Frist Campus Center May 2 |
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April 25, 2012
Civic Engagement & Public Service Newsletter
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The Inter Club Community Fundraiser is in Full Swing
The Inter Club Community Fundraiser (ICCF) is a 10-day civic engagement program co-organized by the Pace Council for Civic Values (PCCV) and Princeton's eating clubs. Each club hosts an event to raise money and support for a local cause.
This year, the clubs have decided to support Donors Choose, a website where donors give teachers in low-income schools grants for field trips and classroom supplies. Each club will adopt a different New Jersey classroom and compete to see who can collect the most money or hold the most creative fundraiser.
For more information, check out the Pace Center websiteor visit ICCF on Facebook.
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 Breakout Trip Proposals for Fall 2012 are Due!
Thurs, April 26, 12 Noon
Breakout exists to give Princeton students the opportunity to learn about and take action to address important issues of public concern. Each of the six trips offered every fall and spring are proposed and planned by students who want to lead a diverse group of their peers in engaging topics like immigration, human rights, social entrepreneurship, poverty, education, incarceration, food access, sustainability, community-based arts, and health care. To propose a trip, click here.
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 Social Entrepreneurship Startup Panel
Thurs, April 26, 4:30-6PM, Career Services Conference Room
Learn what it takes to create your own startup. Come hear four Princeton student social entrepreneurs from Pasand, Duma, My Card My Story, and Ubomi Beads speak about their experiences starting ventures in the last year. Entrepreneurship Professor Ed Zschau will moderate. Panelists will speak to the process and challenges of founding an organization and the potential of social entrepreneurship to tackle some of the world's greatest challenges. This will also serve as a launch event for the U-Store-PSEI partnership Products With Purpose, which is selling Ubomi Beads jewelry and My Card My Story greeting cards in the U-Store.
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 Celebrate Communiversity!
Saturday April 28, 12-5PM
The annual Town/Gown celebration, Communiversity, will be held on the University front campus and on Nassau and Witherspoon Streets in Princeton, Saturday. Sponsored by the students at Princeton University and the Arts Council of Princeton, the event brings together over 250 artists, crafters, performance groups, student and community organizations, and local merchants.
For more information, visit the Arts Council of Princeton website.
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We the People: Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Public Education
Sunday April 29, 6-7:30PM, Fields Center
The We the People Tour seeks to inspire local communities to get a conversation moving among and across stakeholder groups in today's educational landscape, prioritizing the voices of students, parents and teachers in helping to initiate a national dialogue about high quality education as a Constitutional right. Representatives from The Young People's Project will facilitate a community forum on quality education-highlighting reform efforts that consider the student perspective. For more with on the event, please visit the Facebook event page.
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Volunteers Needed for a Princeton Campus Expedition
Fri, May 4
The Princeton-Blairstown Center (PBC) will be hosting a Princeton Campus Expedition (PCE) for 6th graders from Global Neighborhood Secondary School in East Harlem on Friday, May 4. PBC needs 4-8 motivated, undergraduate volunteers to give tours of the Princeton campus. This will take approximately 80-90 minutes of the volunteers' time from 11:00am-12:30pm. Lunch will be provided, and volunteers will also receive a PCE t-shirt and PBC wristband. For more info, see the PBC website.
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 THR 307: Devising Theater with Youth
This hands-on course will explore contemporary theories and practices of community-based theater and devising technique, a method of creating performance through collaborative writing, storytelling, and physical exercises.
Students in the course will work with local children to devise an original performance based on the children's personal or imagined stories, and will perform the devised play for parents, teachers, and friends at a culminating community event. This course is offered in partnership with Community-Based Learning Initiative (full CBLI course offerings here) and the Pace Center for Civic Engagement Community House.
Class time: Wed, 3-4:20PM & Fri, 4-5:20PM. Enrollment by application or interview. Please contact Erica Nagel to state interest in the course: enagel@mccarter.org. Performance experience not required. For more info, please visit online.
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EPICS: Engineering Projects In Community Service - Course offerings
EPICS was first introduced at Princeton University in the fall of 2006. It is a unique program in which teams of undergraduates are designing, building, and deploying real systems to solve engineering-based problems for local community service and education organizations.
Offerings for Fall 2012 include EGR 250/251, 350/351, and 450/451. Student teams meet and work throughout the academic year and must enroll in the 2-course sequence to receive full credit for the EPICS course. Contact Victoria Dorman at vdorman@princeton.edu if you have questions about registration, or visit the EPICS website for more information.
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Internship - The Young People's Project Summer Math Institute
Deadline: May 12, 2012
Intern this summer with the Young People's Project (YPP) and Center for African American Studies. The intern will be trained and employed as a College Math Literacy Worker (CMLW) and work on the M.I.T. campus in Cambridge, MA. For more information and to see a job description, email Leide Cabral at gba@typp.org.
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 Class of '72 and 2012 - Donate at Reunions 2012
In honor of its 40th reunion, the Class of 1972 is partnering with the Class of 2012 to hold several large donation efforts during this year's Reunions. Attendees are encouraged to donate their gently-used eyeglasses, jewlery, and bicycles, for New Eyes for the Needy and the Boys and Girls Club of Trenton & Mercer County, which serves approximately 2,300 youths per year.
Collection boxes for the eyeglasses and jewelry will be available at the '72 Reunions registration table, and at the Pace Center and USG offices, located on the 2nd floor of Frist. Tax deduction forms will be available. For more information about donations and specifically bicycle donations, contact Barbara Julius '72 ( bmjulius@gmail.com) by May 25.
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Class of 1961 Foundation Seeking Community Service Project Proposals
Proposal deadline: Rolling
The Class of 1961 Foundation seeks proposals from undergraduates and faculty who are interested in implementing a community service project, in the fields of education, health, or the environment, in the U.S. or outside the U.S. Proposals must meet the Class' goal of "...making a meaningful contribution to the people and habitat of the country and the world in a manner that reinforces the value of the Princeton experience." Class of 1961 members are a fundamental component of a project but are not required in developing and submitting a proposal. (Identification and selection of '61 involvement will be the responsibility of the Foundation.)
For more information on the Class of 1961 Foundation Community Service Project and proposals, visit the Class of 1961 website or email Pres@Princeton61.org.
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