Find service-learning opportunities

 Zooniverse Research Projects

Earn service-learning hours online by participating in science projects through Zooniverse. Help researchers around the world with tasks you can complete on your computer. Some projects include monitoring wildlife cameras, climate patterns, deciphering botany samples, or identifying marine invertebrates!

To get started, visit www.zooniverse.org and create an account. You may choose from any project, and you can track the classifications you’ve completed from your profile page. In order to receive service-learning credit, you must complete our Zooniverse Project Reflection form, which includes uploading a screenshot of your profile page and completed classification number. Approximately fifty classifications equals one hour of service-learning credit.

Example Projects

Snow Spotter: Help hydrologists from the University of Washington analyze forest-snow interception patterns by examining timelapse photos. Currently out of data but keep checking for updated data!

Mapping Change: Help us use over a century's worth of specimens to map the distribution of animals, plants, and fungi. Your data will let us know where species have been and predict where they may end up in the future!

Penguin Watch: Count penguins, chicks, and eggs in far away lands to help us understand their lives and environment. Currently out of data but keep checking for updated data!

Cedar Creek: Eyes on the Wild: This is a finished project where real people helped researchers untangle the complex and surprising interactions among North American fauna. Click to see results!

Killer Whale Count: Identify and count killer whales to determine if their predation is causing Steller sea lion declines!

Whale Chat: Identification and classification of humpback whale vocalizations.

SquirrelMapper: Assist in identifying squirrels of different fur color as well as their predators. With your help analyzing these photos scientists can better understand how mammals adapt to rapidly changing environments.

https://www.usgs.gov/youth-and-education-in-science/citizen-science 

Food Pantry Cookbook Recipe Project

The Edmonds College Food Pantry is looking for volunteers to help create recipe cards to put together in a cookbook! The purpose of this project is to create simple, nutritional recipes for us to share with our visitors to provide them with healthy options while using the food they take home each week from our pantry.

There are three different types of recipes you can create:

• A meal using multiple food pantry items that we could display as a “Featured Meal of the Week.”
• A substitute/alternative for another item typically found in a recipe (e.g., using applesauce as a substitute for oil or butter while baking)
• A unique way to cook and incorporate the bulk items we buy (pasta, rice, beans, lentils, etc.)

If you're interested in volunteering with the food pantry, please sign up with our Food Pantry Volunteer Interest form.. For more information about this opportunity, check out our Cookbook Recipe Project Presentation! Please contact Stewart Sinning at stewart.sinning@edmonds.edu with any questions.

Idealist and VolunteerMatch

VolunteerMatchIdealist are two great websites for finding virtual service-learning opportunities. Once you’re in contact with a sponsoring organization, please email Stewart Sinning at stewart.sinning@edmonds.edu to receive service-learning credit for your work.

Recommended opportunities:

• Prayer Shawls for Hospice Patients
• Forest Fire Prevention Serious G a.m.e Simulation
• Homeless Prevention Simulation
• Farmer Frog

The Edmonds Food Bank welcomes new volunteers. 

They currently have many volunteer opportunities year round, with the highest need being Monday and Tuesday. If you are comfortable operating a large vehicle there are opportunities to drive/deliver food multiple days a week. If you have a physical limitation there are many lite tasks such as sorting and portioning available. ADA friendly. Most volunteers will be "shoppers", putting together orders for f a.m.ilies. Enriching the lives of others never felt so good. 

It takes over 150 volunteers and almost 3000 volunteer hours each month to keep the Edmonds Food Bank running. 

Learning objectives: Increase your communication and English reading skills, further develop your organizational and social skills. Learn how to replenish stocks, implement food hygiene standards, maintaining clean storage spaces. Experience how to address food insecurity.

Benefits: Improve your physical and mental health, expand your social network and your professional connections.

Volunteer as you are able, times are flexible. Even one hour helps.

 Located just 3 miles (4.82 km) from c a.m.pus at 828 Caspers St, Edmonds, WA 98020 Community Transit bus 196 drops right in front.

info@edmondsfoodbank.org for more information. Background checks and applications will be needed when you first start. Sign in/out sheets for both the college and food bank are needed each time you go. One for their grant, one for your Service Learning credit. 

(Normally, the Edmonds Food Bank will be closed if the Edmonds School District is closed due to inclement weather. In all other cases, such as when the school district is delayed or on holiday, the Edmonds Food Bank will be open during normal hours. Check website or call 425-778-5833 for more details )

Farmer Frog is a long time community partner of Edmonds College and creator of our campus farm hoop-house. They continue to support the college by assisting in providing fresh produce and goods for our Food Pantry.

They are in the process of moving locations but there is plenty to still do at their current location.

They hold work parties at Paradise Farm to clean up the site and prepare for growing crops. Scheduled work parties are on their work party calendar.

Application and hours for volunteering are here.

Learning objectives: Physical tasks on a working farm in Snohomish County. History of the land while assisting in food distribution or food planting/harvesting/maintaining.

Benefits: Physical movement, mostly outdoors. Feel the wind. Helps with your mental state and fellowship. Networking.

Located 19 miles (30.5 km) from c a.m.pus at 23210 Paradise Lake Rd., Woodinville WA 98077 carpooling is a great idea.

Connect with Your Local Senior Neighbors by lending a hand here and there, or just being there to offer your company!

At Northwest Neighbors Network (NNN), our Volunteers serves seniors in Southern Snohomish and North King County with ¨good neighborly¨ tasks like offering rides, running errands, helping at home, taking out the garbage, shopping, helping with technology support, with gardening, social visits and more. 

We offer an easy, flexible, self sign up process to make volunteering easy, at your pace and fun! Select services (1 at a time, when you want to) that appeal to you and connect with a neighbor in need.

Benefits: Social isolation is a major issue that many older adults face. The feeling of loneliness and few interactions with others can negatively impact a person’s health. Getting out into the community and volunteering promotes socialization for both yourself and others you are helping.

Reach danie@northwestneighborsnetwork.org or call 253-237-2848 to learn more about the flexible volunteer opportunities or to sign up! Want to skip all that and jump right to the Volunteer Application, do that!

(Coverage areas include: Edmonds, Lynnwood, Brier, Mountlake Terrace, Lake Forest Park, Shoreline, Woodway and a small bit of N. Seattle.)

Ask Danie about bus lines.