The following is the BSA weekly caregiver newsletter for week of 4/27-5/1:
Announcement #1: Community Service from Home
BSA students must complete 60 hours of community service in order to graduate. We have written a list of projects that students can complete at home to earn hours. Hours can be logged using this form: https://forms.gle/AV8tH1dHKfZ8XuMB6
If students have questions about community service, they should contact their guidance counselor.
At-home Service Projects:
- Participate in online research projects & community service opportunities
- Citizen scientist opportunities via NOAA: https://www.noaa.gov/work-with-us/volunteer-opportunities-citizen-scientists
- Volunteering as a participant in Harvard’s Implicit Bias Project: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
- Transcribe historical documents for the Smithsonian: https://transcription.si.edu/
- Provide audiobooks for Librivox: https://librivox.org/pages/volunteer-for-librivox/
- Proofread eBooks for Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Volunteering_for_Project_Gutenberg
- Provide sighted assistance to those with visual difficulties: https://www.bemyeyes.com/
- Help search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: https://www.seti.org/
- Creating customized voices for AI assistive devices: https://vocalid.ai/
- Write notes to medical workers
- Write content for BSA’s social media
- Help in your community by volunteering with Invisible Hands Deliver. They have at-home and community-based opportunities: https://www.invisiblehandsdeliver.com/volunteer
- Start a community beautification project
- Examples: writing poems, songs, art & sharing with the community, photo essay, “humans of BSA”
- Create a virtual yearbook (slideshow)
- Journal about being a student during the pandemic
