2021 was such an amazing year! In January, we first founded our organization, and from then on we worked on so many amazing projects. This included various volunteering projects such as STEM Fairs, donations, and even building our own little free library! To round up all the notable things we Read more…
7/26/21 We sat in the taxi, bumping around on the unpaved roads in the small SUV with its cracked windshield. The roads had to be unpaved because of the permafrost beneath the surface. It made sense, considering we were in Utqiagvik, or Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost city in all of Read more…
As we passed by the huge dinosaurs climbing the walls on the side of the Children’s Museum, I was hit with a wave of nostalgia. I couldn’t begin to imagine how many hours I had spent here as a little kid digging for dinosaur bones in the archaeology exhibit, staring Read more…
6/5/21 1 in 7 people in Indiana face hunger. Gleaners Food Bank, a member of Feeding America, is working to change that. Gleaners works to provide food and other important items to people in need. This is done through home deliveries, an on-site food pantry, and mobile pantries. The event Read more…
6-17-21 “Ok, what’s 5 minus 2?” “Umm,” she paused for a second, staring at her fingers. Suddenly, her whole face lit up as she jumped up and down, shouting, ” three!” “Good job!” Jewel congratulated the little girl and handed her a bucket full of water. I braced myself for Read more…
5/15/21 When we pulled up to Coburn Place, a women and children’s shelter for victims of domestic abuse and violence, we knew to look for the tall black gate separating the parking lot from the road. As it is a safe haven for victims of domestic violence, we had to Read more…
Today we went back to the shelter where we did the STEM Fair to volunteer again. This time we were painting the room that would become the food pantry. We arrived around 1, and were greeted by the volunteer coordinator. She led us into the elevator and we went the Read more…
4/15/21 Today we volunteered at the STEM Fair at a local women and children’s shelter we have recently been doing some work with. Before today, we had only donated some items for helping the kids. You can check out that blog post here. This time was more rewarding though, because Read more…
For our first project, we decided to donate to a local shelter, and hopefully do other projects with them in the future. First, we had to find a shelter to see if they met out criteria. We wanted to focus on helping kids, since that is the overall mission of Read more…
3-21-2021 Today we went to a local soup kitchen to volunteer. We arrived around 11. The soup kitchen was a simple brown brick building behind the church that operated it. Multiple churches in the area rotate who runs it each week. When the organizer for this week arrived, he let Read more…