The Community Warriors are one of the First LEGO League Robotics teams at Booth Middle School. Besides building and programming robots, the team has decided to focus on improving the way students learn about volunteering through service learning.
One way the team has decided to raise awareness about volunteering is to challenge students to volunteer for just one hour. They call it the ”Hit the Road” challenge because they want students to step out of their comfort zones and onto the volunteer road.
It is their hope that students will see the impact they have made and be motivated to continue volunteering in the future.
The team is asking students to spend one hour volunteering.
Students can work at the Midwest Food Bank in Peachtree City, pick up trash at a local park, collect warm jackets for the needy, organize a door to door canned food drive or anything else that will help others.
Volunteers should be sure to take a quick video of themselves volunteering and challenging another friend to do the same.
Volunteers can send the video to the friend they are challenging as well as to the robotics team at [email protected].
The Community Warriors will put the video on their website and will send a green ribbon for volunteers’ cars so that everyone will know they have “Hit the Road.”
The robotics team is headed to the Super Regional competition at Clayton State University in January.
In participating in this project, voluntees may be exposed to personal injury or damage to their properties as a result of their activities, the activities of other volunteers, or the conditions under which their volunteer services are performed.
With knowledge of these dangers, they agree to accept any and all risks of injury to person or properties and will not hold community warriors responsible.
Kids under 18 must have their parents or legal guardians’ consent before volunteering for any type of activity.
Videos sent to community warriors for posting must have parents or legal guardians’ consent.
