collaboratory highlights
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Collaboratory highlights
2008-2009 academic year
Student leadership
Discipleship
Energy Group: Solar Scholars
• Dedication of Clifford L. Jones Solar Scholars Pavilion in September
Energy Group: Biodiesel
• Received $492K grant from the US Department of Energy
• Hire of Project Manager Mike Zummo
• Received $10K seed grant from Keystone Innovation Zone for work in ethanol recovery
Energy Group: Biodiesel
• Represented Messiah College & the Collaboratory at the Pennsylvania State Farm Show in January
MED Group
The Collaboratory & Dr. David Hagenbuch partnered with Harrisburg entrepreneur Henry Edwards to study how a grocery business can be sustained in communities where annual household income is below $35K.
Communications Group: WERC
The Collaboratory & partners SymBionyx & the Capital Area Intermediate Unit (CAIU) received funding of $45k (to CAIU) to further develop technology that assists persons with autism in school or at work.
J-term trip: Burkina Faso
• Education Group• Disability Resources Group: Mobility Project
J-term trip: Mali
• Disability Resources Group: Mali Water & Disabilities Study project
Staff Group: MAP
Member Achievement Portfolio, a project of the Information Management (IM) Team: A portfolio-based tool that can easily have events & members added to it & automatically track statistics for each class or portfolio.
• event attendance • stats based on
• individual • group • team • event type • date/week
• online data entry or printable forms
Trips this summer• Zambia & BIC Church
• Completion of Paper-Making & Tie Dye project, & the initiation of a Village Savings & Loan project
• Honduras & CURE• Installation of water purification systems &
continued education on the importance of clean drinking water, as well as business planning
• Mali & World Vision• Completion of 3-year Mali Water & Disabilities
Study (funded by the Hilton Foundation), • Zambia & World Vision
• Implementation of mobile technology in areas affected by HIV/AIDS
Looking ahead
• J-term trip to Haiti to install solar power system at Grace Mission, funded by I-TEC
• Completion of 3-year Mali Water & Disabilities Study (funded by the Hilton Foundation), & new project & funding opportunities??
• Grant opportunities for WERC project• Sawyer water filter project• Conversations with Joni Erikson Tada & a future
partnership with Christian Institute on Disability/Joni & Friends International Disability Center
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