 Service Learning is the method through which citizenship, academic, subjects, skills, and values are taught. (Keys to Success-VSU Edition, p. 391).

 Increases retention  Provides quality education  Enhances personalized education for students.  Teaches positive values, leadership, citizenship and personal responsibility  Encourages faculty to be more innovative and creative in their teaching  Helps with community education  Teaches job skills and prepares students for careers after college  Increases campus-community collaboration and partnerships › (Keys to Success- VSU Edition, p. 392)

 Shamrock is Kappa Delta’s Philanthropy.  The event is for the organization Prevent Child Abuse.  All money raised goes straight to the Prevent Child Abuse fund.

 Each year Kappa Delta hosts a Flag football tournament to raise funds for Prevent Child Abuse.  teams compete on average annually.  Teams are required to pay an entry fee of $125 dollars. Donations are also accepted for greater amounts

 The tournament lasts two days total.  It begins at 8 am, and goes until 10 p.m. the first day.  The second day it begins again at 8 a.m. and ends around 5 or 6 p.m.

 Relay for Life is an event that goes on from 7pm- 7am.  All of the funds and proceeds raised go towards the American Cancer Society.  The American Cancer Society Relay For Life is a life-changing event that gives everyone in communities across the globe a chance to celebrate the lives of people who have battled cancer, remember loved ones lost, and fight back against the disease

 At Relay, teams of people camp out at a local high school, park, or fairground and take turns walking or running around a track or path.  Relay For Life is more than just a fundraiser. It’s a life-changing experience. At Relay, every person in the community has a chance to celebrate, remember, and fight back. And every person who participates joins others around the globe as part of this worldwide movement to end cancer.

 Some different benefits that I gained while participating in service learning include: responsibility, obligations, finding out more information, helping out people, meeting new people, and influencing people’s lives positively.  Service learning is something that everybody should partake in. It benefits so much and really helps people out.  Throughout all of my service learning I benefited a lot, and learned things that I never would have known.