Creating a community project’s vision

The Ride to Inspire Student Engagement

The University of Wisconsin at River Falls hosted this event where 5 school districts and more than 100 students, teachers, and professors participated in a giant community asset mapping exercise. Given a large sheet of flip chart paper, they were guided by AmeriCorps volunteers through a process to identify their community’s strengths, problems, and imagine how one problem might be solved by connecting the community’s strengths in a service-learning project. At each table, different projects were developed and the students went back to their schools to develop how to make it a reality.