IPARD
What does IPARD stand for?
Investigation, Planning, Action, Reflection, Demonstration
This president signed the National and Community Service Trust Act on September 21, 1993.
You need to serve this many hours to earn a segal education award
What is 1700 Hours
There are 25 of these within a 15 mile radius from Springfield
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This popular indoor or outdoor sport was invented in Holyoke at the YMCA
What is Volleyball
Before you can do a service-learning project you must find this opening.
What is the Entry point
The 8th CEO of AmeriCorps is from this town in Massachusetts
What is Springfield
You attend a union meeting wearing your AmeriCorps Lanyard or pin. Did you just engage in a prohibited activity?
What is, Yes
Springfield is known as a City of Firsts. Our ELA teachers should know what was innovated in 1805 here. The Business still calls Springfield its home.
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1850, Holyoke finally became its own town and within 30 years, America recognized it as the "Queen of Industrial Cities", and soon after as this “City”
What is the Paper City
The final step in service learning involves showcasing the knowledge and skills gained through the project, often through presentations, reports, or creative expressions
What is Demonstration
On this federal Holiday, AmeriCorps members across the nation come together to serve “as a day on, not off”
What is MLK Day
There are 10 prohibited activities- name 2
Attempting to influence legislation;
(2) Organizing or engaging in protests, petitions, boycotts, or strikes;
(3) Assisting, promoting, or deterring union organizing;
(4) Impairing existing contracts for services or collective bargaining agreements;
(5) Engaging in partisan political activities, or other activities designed to influence the outcome of an election to any public office;
(6) Participating in, or endorsing, events or activities that are likely to include advocacy for or against political parties, political platforms, political candidates, proposed legislation, or elected officials;
(7) Engaging in religious instruction, conducting worship services, providing instruction as part of a program that includes mandatory religious instruction or worship, constructing or operating facilities devoted to religious instruction or worship, maintaining facilities primarily or inherently devoted to religious instruction or worship, or engaging in any form of religious proselytization;
(8) Providing a direct benefit to—
(i) A business organized for profit;
(ii) A labor union;
(iii) A partisan political organization;
(iv) A nonprofit organization that fails to comply with the restrictions contained in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 except that nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent participants from engaging in advocacy activities undertaken at their own initiative;
(v) An organization engaged in the religious activities described in paragraph (g) of this section, unless Corporation assistance is not used to support those religious activities; and
(9) Conducting a voter registration drive or using Corporation funds to conduct a voter registration drive;
(10) Providing abortion services or referrals for receipt of such services
Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted – the famed designer of New York City's Central Park, this Springfield Parkis one of the US Largest Urban Parks
What is Forest Park
During the 1970s only 3.7% of Holyoke’s population was of this heritage, today it is nearly half.
What is Puerto Rican
Field Trips, Interviews, Research, surveys, Media Reviews, Asset Mapping and data reviews are examples of what?
What is Guided Discovery
This is the amount of the Segal education award in 2023-2024
What is $7395
Once you finish service you can use your education award for 2 things. What are they?
What are qualifying loans and future schooling
Near the city's founding date of May 14, Springfield attempts to break the Guinness world record for largest number of these served
What are pancakes
Thanks to its Dam systems, Over 60% of the energy used in Holyoke comes from this.
What is Hydropower
This should be embedded at all stages of a service learning project
What is Reflection
AmeriCorps is based on four pillars.
What are Unite, Impact, Lead, Strengthen
Our AmeriCorps funder is MSA - what does MSA stand for?
What is Massachusetts Service Alliance
After an absence of more than 200 years, this was reintroduced to the Connecticut River
What is the Atlantic Salmon
Hundreds of these tracks can be found in an 8 acre wilderness reservation purchased for the public in 1935
What are dinosaur footprints