Student Service
Dirt to Food
Dirt to Food partnered with the Upstate Locavores and the Littlejohn Community Center to teach local Girl Scouts how to grow, harvest and cook their own food. Sororities on campus joined forces with Dirt to Food to provide Earthboxes – portable garden containers — helping women at local domestic violence shelters grow their own vegetables.
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Haiti Outreach
The Clemson Family came together to respond to the crisis in Haiti.
Four civil engineering students traveled to Haiti after the earthquake to help provide clean drinking water.
Student organization FeelGood provided grilled cheese sandwiches in exchange for a donation to world hunger relief. They donated 50 percent of proceeds to Haiti and accepted direct donations for the cause.
Students founded the Facebook Cause Tigers Helping Haiti
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Gulf Coast Oil Spill
Students and faculty came together to discuss the Gulf Coast oil crisis
The event held in September featured a panel discussion with faculty members Allen Thompson, a professor in philosophy and religion department specializing in environmental ethics; John Rodgers, a forestry and natural resources professor who specializes in environmental toxicology and has worked on the BP oil spill; and Patrick Jodice, an associate professor of forestry and natural resources and leader of the South Carolina Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. A small group discussion of the issues followed the panel discussion. The experience lead to plans for a Spring Break 2011 week of service on site in Louisiana.
National Teach-In
The National Teach in on Climate Change brought leaders from Xerox, InterfaceFLOR, Duke Energy and the US Green Building Society to campus. This large-scale event was planned and managed by Clemson graduate and undergraduate students.
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MBA students build a computer lab for Triune Mercy Center
Student volunteers refurbished donated computers and scrounged for desks and chairs to create a computer lab for the Triune Mercy center clients: the homeless and disadvantaged. Once the room was equipped, the crew started thinking about the best way to teach computer skills to the homeless — many of whom typically don’t have basic typing skills.
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Earth Day
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, 11 marketing students conceptualized, organized, planned and executed the University’s largest Earth Day event in history. The campus Earth Day event has gone from a small row of tents to a celebration with live music, inflatables, climbing and Velcro walls, an e-waste drive, food and vendors.