Service Learning Project Reflection Paper

For my service learning project I worked with the challenger learning center by helping them get ready, setup, and working with them at their booth during the pumpkins in the park event. This service learning project not only gave me a chance to study myself and how I work and act with new people, but it also gave me a chance to study other people and how they work with the people they know and don’t know. The weird thing about this service learning project that I didn’t realize until I got to the building to volunteer was that I had been to the Challenger Learning Center as a kid. It was really cool get to go back into the place that helped me realized my true passion for science and space. After we were done with our volunteering they let

The entire time I was volunteering I was creating interpersonal perceptions of the people around me and my relationships with them. At first I perceived this event as just things that college students had to do in order to pass a class, and these other people had to do it because it was there job. The more time that was spend with these people helped me put a better meaning as to why all of us are here. Not just because us college students had to for a project because we could have picked numerous different ways to do our community service. We did it because we all shared an interest in helping the Challenger Learning Center create a fun and educational booth for all the kids. Same with the people that work at there, they weren’t getting paid to do this. They did this because they love their job and wanted the kids to have a good time but also learn something in the process. So by the end of the volunteering my interpersonal perception of this event was clear and I finally was able to put meaning to it. We were all there to show kids that you can learn and still have fun and to let people know that the Challenger Learning Center has a lot of great opportunities for