community projects
"To create you must quiet your mind.
You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting." - Eric Maisil
2024 COMMUNITY EVENT
2023 COMMUNITY EVENT
Giving Back To The Community!!!
2019 Church on the Street:
This year we are collecting a combination of things to be given out to people who are struggling with poverty. Items can include: bag of nuts, beef sticks, cheese sticks, crackers, water/ juice, pop- tarts! For every item brought or $1.00 donated at the Wow event, get your name entered in for an Ooey Gooey Inspired Door Prize. |
2018... We collected food for Feeding South Dakota!
2017 Sanford Cure Kids Cancer
Light The Way For Children:
We sold t-shirts in honor of Gera Jacobs. With your help we raised $5000. All funds were then donated to Sanford's Cure Kids Cancer!
Jacobs, Ed.D., was a professor in the USD School of Education Department of Curriculum & Instruction since 1995. She came to the university in 1993 as an early childhood specialist at the USD Center for Disabilities. Prior to that, she taught preschool, kindergarten and elementary school for many years. She also taught numerous workshops and led other training while at USD.
Jacobs was past-president and had served in other roles at the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). It is the largest and most in influential organization of early childhood educators and others dedicated to improving the quality of programs for children from birth through age 8. NAEYC has nearly 90,000 members and a national network of more than 300 local, state and regional affiliates.
She co-authored three nationally recognized books on how to help children meet standards in developmentally appropriate ways. Jacobs was chairperson for the South Dakota Early Learning Guidelines Panel, which was responsible for writing South Dakota preschool standards. And she was named a 2008 Champion for Children by South Dakota Voices for Children.
Light The Way For Children:
We sold t-shirts in honor of Gera Jacobs. With your help we raised $5000. All funds were then donated to Sanford's Cure Kids Cancer!
Jacobs, Ed.D., was a professor in the USD School of Education Department of Curriculum & Instruction since 1995. She came to the university in 1993 as an early childhood specialist at the USD Center for Disabilities. Prior to that, she taught preschool, kindergarten and elementary school for many years. She also taught numerous workshops and led other training while at USD.
Jacobs was past-president and had served in other roles at the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). It is the largest and most in influential organization of early childhood educators and others dedicated to improving the quality of programs for children from birth through age 8. NAEYC has nearly 90,000 members and a national network of more than 300 local, state and regional affiliates.
She co-authored three nationally recognized books on how to help children meet standards in developmentally appropriate ways. Jacobs was chairperson for the South Dakota Early Learning Guidelines Panel, which was responsible for writing South Dakota preschool standards. And she was named a 2008 Champion for Children by South Dakota Voices for Children.
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