Scholars Service Specials (open to 2020-2021 Civic Engagement Scholars)

Zooniverse is an online platform for people-powered research, allowing researchers with large amounts of data to analyze their data more easily through the help of volunteers. If you're a student who is interested in conducting research of your own in the future, or if you enjoy supporting research in areas you're interested in, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop is a nonprofit based in Washington DC that "uses books, creative writing, and peer support to awaken DC youth incarcerated as adults to their own potential." Volunteers in this project will spend time posting comments on Free Minds' online poetry blog of works by incarcerated poets. The comments will then be shared with the poets to inspire them to continue their writing.

Free Minds Book Club & Writing Workshop is a nonprofit based in Washington DC that "uses books, creative writing, and peer support to awaken DC youth incarcerated as adults to their own potential." Volunteers in this project will spend time posting comments on Free Minds' online poetry blog of works by incarcerated poets. The comments will then be shared with the poets to inspire them to continue their writing.

Zooniverse is an online platform for people-powered research, allowing researchers with large amounts of data to analyze their data more easily through the help of volunteers. If you're a student who is interested in conducting research of your own in the future, or if you enjoy supporting research in areas you're interested in, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Participate in virtual activism with Mapping Prejudice! Mapping Prejudice in an organization that helps to map racial covenants in the greater Minneapolis area that contributed to structural barriers by stopping many people who were not white from buying property and building wealth for most of the last century. Through mapping and reading property deeds, you can help to illuminate these disparities in order to help change our knowledge of the past and its current impacts.

Volunteers for this project have the amazing opportunity to transcribe documents written by Rosa Parks, Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and more. Their work will allow these historical documents to be word searchable in the Library of Congress' catalog, so if you're interested in preserving history, sign up now!

Participate in virtual activism with Mapping Prejudice! Mapping Prejudice in an organization that helps to map racial covenants in the greater Minneapolis area that contributed to structural barriers by stopping many people who were not white from buying property and building wealth for most of the last century. Through mapping and reading property deeds, you can help to illuminate these disparities in order to help change our knowledge of the past and its current impacts.

Volunteers for this project have the amazing opportunity to transcribe documents written by Rosa Parks, Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and more. Their work will allow these historical documents to be word searchable in the Library of Congress' catalog, so if you're interested in preserving history, sign up now!