Almost 70 people joined us for our annual CO Banquet at the Alumni Center on April 27th. We presented awards, and celebrated all of our student leaders and campus partners for their care, dedication, and innovation this year! Prior to the banquet, we also celebrated our wonderful seniors who are graduating this weekend 🎓🎉
Looking for something to do as finals come to an end? Anyone can still sign up to volunteer for Give & Go to collect items from residence halls that will be donated to our community partners! Sign up with the link in our bio and remember, don’t dump it- donate it ♻️
The Special Olympics Husky Classic Soccer Tournament was held last Sunday, April 27th. We welcomed over 20 teams from around CT to play on the Sherman field in qualifying matches for summer games. Robert and the Special Olympics Committee engaged over 70+ volunteers throughout the day, including SO committee members, sponsors, and athletes from the women’s soccer team, men’s soccer team, and women’s club soccer team. This event was really well run and everyone had fun despite the cold weather!!
The Special Olympics team also hosted their end of semester party, celebrating another year of hard work towards building a more inclusive community through sports!
Jumpstart “graduation” 📚❤️
Due to federal funding cuts, the Jumpstart program at UConn is coming to an end. Jumpstart was this year’s program of the year, and has consistently been a cornerstone and exemplar within Community Outreach. While the loss will certainly be felt throughout our community, we hope to recognize and celebrate the service, care, and dedication put forward by its members over the past 18 years.
The Jumpstart program at UConn was started by Colleen Deasy, a former CO student leader, as well as Matt Farley, the Associate Director of CO at the time. Our own Meg Marshall was the first Site Manager of Jumpstart, and helped create the foundation for the program that know today. In fact, many of our Jumpstart community partners have worked with us for the entirety of the program’s duration.
We want to recognize current and previous staff members, coordinators, community partners, and volunteers for their service within the community. In particular, we want to shed light on the work of this year’s staff members Jake Najarian and Rachel Carey, co-coordinators Hailey Porter and Alexa Bajek, and community engagement coordinators Paige O’Keefe and Izzy Thoennes.
