P701 Project Descriptions

Dance Marathon
Project Manager: Chelsea Ludeman cludeman001@defiance.edu

Dance Marathon is a fundraising campaign for Children's Miracle Network where students plan an end-of-campaign festivity to celebrate all the funds raised through the campaign and to support children with terminal illnesses. At the end of the year event, students celebrate by standing on their feet for 8 hours to represent children with terminal illnesses that cannot take a break. The celebration includes food, games, dancing, inflatables, miracle families and stories, and much more.


Free Clinic
Project Managers: Cheryl-Ann Francis cfrancis004@defiance.edu, Lindsay Kasmer lkasmer001@defiance.edu, Aubrey Kemerer akemerer002@defiance.edu

Defiance Cares Free Clinic functions through a collaboration between Mercy Hospital, ProMedica Defiance Regional Hospital, and Defiance College. The clinic offers free primary health care to citizens of Defiance that do not have insurance. Students run the clinic logistically while also having the opportunity to shadow the nurses, doctors, and social workers.


Backpack Buddy Program
Project Managers: Abby Taylor ataylor004@defiance.edu, Malana Ledley mledley001@defiance.edu

The Backpack Buddy Program is a food program for children on the free/reduced food program of Defiance County to receive supplemental food on the weekends during the school year. Different groups, organizations, and community members stuff all of the backpacks each week and then the backpacks are delivered to each of the 6 public elementary schools within the Defiance County.


DC Artbox Fair Trade
Project Managers: Cord Speelman cspeelman001@defiance.edu, Chris Wade cwade001@defiance.edu

DC Art Box is a small, mobile fair trade organization that makes connections and partnerships with artists in foreign countries to sell the foreign goods at a fair price. Currently, DC Artbox has made connections artisans in countries that the McMaster School fellows & scholars program has traveled to.


DCPC Solutions
Project Managers: Matt Coons mcoons001@defiance.edu, Nick Mumaw nmumaw001@defiance.edu

DCPC Solutions is a small computer services business where digital forensic students offer computer services to the community grounded on free will donation. DCPC provides computer repair/malware removal, upgrades, education, and networking services.


DCRecycling
Project Managers: Abby Taylor ataylor004@defiance.edu, Ian Fasnacht ifasnacht001@defiance.edu, Michelle Bulriss mbulriss001@defiance.edu

The DC Recycling project controls most of the recycling on campus to help make the campus a greener environment. The project is housed within the resident halls where the DCR team picks up recycling from the residents, then all recycling is sorted through and taken to the local recycling center in Defiance. All profits from the recyclables goes towards the Backpack Buddy Program.


Creating Defiance
Project Manager: Kelly Beard kbeard001@defiance.edu

Creating Defiance is small graphic design studio where graphic design students offer graphic design services to small businesses and non-profit organizations. Graphic design students in this project have the opportunity to create logos, marketing materials and much more for local and national organizations and companies.


Hench Herb Project
Project Managers: Rachel Davis rdavis003@defiance.edu, Miranda Steffes msteffes001@defiance.edu

The Hench Autism Herb Project is collaboration between the Hench Autism Unit students and the DC students where the project team grows, dries, and sells herbs. A variation of herbs is grown for cooking uses while the group learns about the entire process.


Native Garden
Project Manager: Allie Beck abeck003@defiance.edu

The Native Garden project takes place in Henry County where students are working to clean an area of invasive plants and in return are planting native plants to better the environment.


READ@DC
Project Managers: Katie Weber kweber002@defiance.edu, Jordan Heiliger jheiliger002@defiance.edu

READ@DC is a Reading Engagement and Development Center for children ages K-12. READ@DC provides assessment/diagnosis services; remediation in reading and writing; and tutoring in reading and writing by DC trained pre-service teachers. This program is designed to improve literacy for individuals within the Defiance County.