BU students show off end-of-semester community projects
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (WIVT/WBGH) – Just across campus, students and faculty were showing off their end of the semester research projects.
Binghamton University's Center for Civic Engagement held its annual Community Engaged Learning and Research Showcase. Every project focused on engaging with local organizations and researching real problems in our community to find solutions.
Such as learning 3 sisters farming from the Haudenosaunee people to combat food insecurity, or engineering a mechanical seeing-eye-dog for those who are blind.
The Engagement Coordinator, Barrett Brenton says the projects aren't strictly graded or anything, its more about learning to research and collaborate.
'So, they may be working on a project that has nothing to do with their future careers, but the experience of community engagement and the skills they learn. Maybe some of the soft skills, skills of research, skills in this case, communicating the work that they're doing are applicable to so many areas for their professional development,' Brenton said.
Brenton says there were students from all different majors involved, from health sciences, to the arts, engineering, and others. Both BU students and staff participate, in some cases, students and faculty teamed up.
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