CBURG Award
Building a Community Center: Strengthening Tribal Connections and Cross-Cultural Relations
In collaboration with the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux tribe in Sisseton, South Dakota, this team will prepare a well-researched and credible community center programming plan. Our efforts are two-fold: first, to identify opportunities for economic self-sustainability within the community center as a means to strengthen tribal sovereignty. Second, this team will examine ways to create spaces that both strengthen tribal culture and remain accessible to the geographic community beyond tribal ties.
Continuing Healthy Habits: Examining Connection to Families and Re-Emphasizing Place-Based Learning
Environmental education programs can increase children’s ecological, social, and civic wellbeing.
Our team hypothesizes that place-based gardening and cooking during the Healthy Habits Club at Burnley-Moran Elementary School will increase students’ nutritional knowledge, practical skills, and desire to share healthy habits. These objectives will be measured through student surveys and analyzed using categorical statistical software. We expect that the healthy habits the students cultivate will transcend their time at club to positively influence their lives.
Creation of a Filter Factory in Hammanskraal, South Africa: Filter Optimization
In 2015, a team of students partnered with PureMadi and Khulisa to create the infrastructure for a ceramic water filter factory in Hammanskraal, South Africa. Our team plans to return to this factory in the summer of 2016 to further develop the filter making process by experimentally optimizing the clay-sawdust-water formulation for filter manufacturing based on available local materials.
Impact of Civic Engagement Education on Youth Community Involvement, Ghana
Amongst the youth population in Ghana, many do not know the appropriate means to civically engage with their leaders to tackle local issues. Our research seeks to explore what extent learning civic engagement principles and skills can increase youth participation in community development efforts in Accra, Ghana. By exploring civic engagement, youth will learn to become initiators of conversations that seek to address local and national issues in Ghana.
Proyecto SABER: An EMR for Resource Limited Environments
Over previous years, UVA students have worked with Guatemalan healthcare providers and computer programmers to create an electronic medical record (EMR) for resource-limited environments, titled SABER. Our team plans to continue the implementation of SABER and conduct a large-scale test of SABER’s functionality compared to the standard work of paper records. We hope to use this research as a platform to further improve SABER and confirm previous small-scale studies of the benefits SABER can provide
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