Redesigning Community Service
Circle K, a community service organization, hosts an annual haunted house every Halloween. This year, Circle K reinvented their popular annual fundraiser as a virtual escape room, featuring Google Forms-based puzzles, WebEx meetings to split up teams into breakout rooms, and gift cards to Ben & Jerry’s and the campus bookstore as prizes. Since conventional fundraisers are no longer possible with COVID-19, Circle K got creative: members used the app Charity Miles, where members walk around, and sponsors donate money to charity for each mile walked.
Active Minds focuses on improving the mental health of the RPI community and spreading mental health awareness. Despite the current restrictions, Active Minds has developed peer support groups as an alternative to the Counseling Center. They also continued to host their mental health week, albeit in a virtual…
