Meetings during fall quarter 2003 are on WEDNESDAYS at
7 p.m. in the Ohio Union basement, Gray Suite A!!
Photo album!
In the 2001-2002 academic year, R&S members:
- went to Ellensburg, WA to participate in the Roots & Shoots College Summit.
- volunteered once a month at Cat Welfare Association
- made peanut butter & jelly sandwiches for PB & Jam, to be donated to local shelters.
- designed and sold custom Roots & Shoots tote bags
- toured the OSU Chimp Center. We hope to make them some cargo nets in the fall.
- volunteered at the OSU-Michigan Blood Battle - a campus blood drive
- went hiking at High Banks Metro Park
- made a cargo net for the bonobos at the Columbus Zoo
- created Christmas cards for kids at Children's Hospital
- participated in the Stephanie Spielman Breast Cancer Walk
- collected 4,300 pennies for the World Wildlife Fund
- helped to restore a prairie at Hoover Dam
- Canoe River Clean-Up along the Darby
- volunteered at Pets without Parents, a local no-kill animal shelter.
- went ice skating with children from local after-school programs. Organized by the Children's Hunger Alliance
- camping trip to Salt Fork State Park
In the academic year 2000-01, Roots & Shoots
members
- collected over 8,000 pennies
for World Wildlife Fund's "Pennies
for the Planet 2000". Our donation supports research, conservation, and
education in three of the world's most threatened ecoregions, the Chihuahuan
Desert, the East African Mangroves and Marine Ecosystems, and the Sumatran
Island Forests. Roots & Shoots at Ohio State was awarded a one-year membership
to WWF and is recognized on their website.
- volunteer once a month at Cat Welfare Association,
a local animal shelter that works for better care, appreciation, and understanding
of cats in the Columbus area.
- participated in a clean-up at
Antrim Park with Friends of the Lower Olentangy Watershed (FLOW), a grassroots
non-profit organization that promotes nature, community, and responsible use
of our urban river.
- volunteer for the
Ohio Hunger Task Force to eliminate hunger in Ohio.
- helped plan the OSU Earth Day Festival, including organizing
booths, service projects, eco-friendly technologies, and prepared posters
and news releases!
- held a bake sale to raise funds for adopting-an-animal at the Columbus
Zoo. We adopted the Black & White Colobus Monkey for one year!
- participated in the "BioBlitz : Biodiversity in your Backyard"
festival at Antrim park.
- volunteered at the Ohio Wheelchair Games, held on
the OSU campus.
- put new recycling stickers on containers throughout campus
to increase recycling awareness at OSU.