EX[L] Student Driven Initiatives
Student Driven Initiatives (SDI) are student-led, community-engaged, hands on opportunities for experiential learning proposed and organized by students.
EX[L]’s mission is to help students emerge as civically-engaged, adaptable leaders, ready to join in the enterprise of building strong and sustainable communities by promoting hands-on, community-based, problem-centered learning.
SDI Goals:
- To support, expand, and create new experiential learning programs;
- To assist faculty with overcoming barriers to innovative, interdisciplinary, experiential teaching while also advancing their academic trajectories;
- To provide opportunities for students to explore and take initiative in interdisciplinary and other innovative pathways to effective learning; and
- To sustain existing, and develop new community partnerships that bring Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÊ×Ò³ students and local business and non-profit change-makers together to advance learning while enriching the fabric of the greater Akron community.
Past Student Driven Initiatives
Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÊ×Ò³S (drone) deployable air quality sensor
Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÊ×Ò³ student designs Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÊ×Ò³S (drone) deployable with an air quality sensor to monitor fugitive methane emissions using affordable modular hardware components and open source software libraries.
Inclusion and Distinction through Scholarship
A Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÊ×Ò³ Student led symposium for students campus-wide to submit their original scholarship, collaborative work, creative words, or research for presentation and awards consideration.
Food Justice, Race, and Grassroots Empowerment
Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÊ×Ò³ student awarded Student Driven Initiatives (SDI) funding to bring visiting scholar to campus to bring attention university and community on food justice.
CUBE
A Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÊ×Ò³ student-developed initiative promoting civil and open dialogue around difficult topics.
Hakron
A Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÊ×Ò³ student organization EX[L] has assisted as it launched the university into the world of hackathons!
Off The Grid
A Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÊ×Ò³ student-STEM HS collaboration to develop new approaches to low-resourced neighborhoods’ energy resilience.
#Righttobehuman
A Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÊ×Ò³ student-led event for Rethinking Race.