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