A Relay for Life table as well as a Red Cross table were just two of the many volunteers present at the VT Engage kick-off that took place in October.
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Also approaching are two large-scale university projects, Relay for Life and The Big Event. Organizers of Relay for Life hope to have Tech's chapter be the largest relay at any university in the country. The Big Event, hosted by the SGA, serves as a "thank you" to the New River Valley for hosting the campus. This year's Big Event will likely be even larger than last year's, in which more than 3,000 students, faculty, and staff members participated in over 450 service projects.
In addition to the projects participated in locally, all of Tech's 111 alumni chapters will be participating in a blood drive in April, among other service projects.
"Part of the alumni charters are to perform community service," Albimino said. "At the bowl game in Miami the alumni association led a VT Engage service project of replanting a garden in a historic part of town that needed attention. It's a part of our everyday language here and is being fully embraced."
The VT Engage program is already being planned for a second year.
"My goal next year is to increase involvement," Gilbert said. "I think one of the ways to gauge success is not by the hours, but by getting those involved who have never done it before. Success is matching volunteers with organizations that need help, and establishing a relationship between the two. We're hoping then that our volunteers will continue to serve."
VT Engage representatives will be present from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Yorktown and Jamestown rooms of Squires on Thursday, Jan. 24, and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Squires Commonwealth Ballroom on Friday, Jan. 25.
These representatives will provide information about service projects that students can participate in. Among the activities offered are making get well cards for ill children at the Roanoke Ronald McDonald house. Students can also make hats for children at St. Jude hospital and write stories for children living in impoverished countries.
Hours are entered into the system through the VT Engage Web site. There are no requirements for authorized supervisors to verify hours, as students are essentially on the honor system when submitting their work. Hours can either be submitted in bulk, such as for a month or semester, or individually for single days or projects.
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As the pain/shock of April 16th starts to fade with the passage of time, so will the feeling of volunteerism amongst many of the students. VT Engage is a noble cause, but they have to realize that getting volunteerism is a tough thing to do in today's multi-tasking, overbooked world.
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When I began looking for a way to contribute to VT-Engage it donned on me that I volunteer all the time without realizing it. That is probably the same for most VT Alum. Think of all the parents that volunteer on school PTA boards, who answer phones in schools, who volunteer in the classrooms. Many of us volunteer at our churches working with the homeless, teaching religious education/bible study classes. We give rides to those going through medical treatments. We fix meals for families going through difficult times or who have lost loved ones. These are just a few of the volunteer activities that I and many others perform everyday but don't consider it worthy of publication. Yes we are an overbooked and multi-tasked society, but somehow we find ways to help others even while working full-time jobs and raising families. It's just something that you're supposed to do. I believe that VT-Engage will make students aware of the responsiblity that we have to help one another whether in a big way or a small way. For many of us graduates volunteering has become so much a part of who we are that we don't give it a second thought and most certainly don't want someone to applaud it. If nothing else, VT-engage will make current VT students aware of possiblities for their futures. They may not jump on a volunteer bandwagon the minute they graduate, but somehow it will become a part of their everyday life; and they won't even realize it until they look back. Now that is something that is worth applauding.
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