Details for "Service Learning- Local Cave Clean-Up"
Get down and dirty with this hands-on presentation in cave-restoration. Not only serving the community and environment warm your heart, you'll also get warm as you’re tucked underground and beneath the snow in a 52 degree cave. Many of the local caves near Bloomington are heavily used and, unfortunately, abused. In an effort to give back to the community and the environment, we'll be traveling to a local cave to help restore it to it’s more natural state. Come prepared to get dirty as we’ll be walking and crawling through mud and water.
Ben Speicher:
Ben is completing his senior year at Indiana University in the Environmental Management program. He has been leading trips for Indiana University Outdoor Adventures for 3 1/2 years and has also worked as a climbing guide in North Carolina and California. After completing his undergraduate degree, he plans on taking a few years to see the world and gain experience. If his adventurous spirit ever settles down, he would like to continue his education.
Lindsay Doucette:
Lindsay has worked in service-learning for 3 years with Campus Compact and as an AmeriCorps VISTA. In 2008 she completed a NOLS Course in the Yukon and led an outdoor servant leaders program in Wyoming. She holds a Masters in Nonprofit Management and is co-founder of an Indianapolis nonprofit.
Special Thanks to Campus Compact for providing a grant to make this workshop happen!
No previous experience is necessary. Workshop participants should show up to the conference with warm, synthetic clothes they don’t mind staining or throwing away. They should also bring two waterbottles, a clean change of clothes, an electrical light source in a sealed plastic bag, and closed-toed footwear with strong ankle support. Participants should have the ability to crawl through small, wet spaces, and see only by headlamp for 4+ hours.
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