Select group of San Diego middle school teachers
When fire devestated parts of San Diego in 2003, the information about the air quality for returning school children was limited. To combat this problem and our students will assist in educating middle school students and teachers about climate causes and effects. The community partners will be a group of middle school teachers, selected from a hands-on teacher workshop that occured in Summer 2005.

• The main focus is bringing engineering and atmospheric literacy into classrooms.

United Cerebral Palsy of San Diego County is a non-profit organization that allows students to create toys that will enable children with Cerebral Palsy to acquire new skills and have fun at the same time. These toys are more focused on abilities rather than disabilities.

• It will enrich and expand the design ideas of these students to help the United Cerebral Palsy Foundation expand their adapted toy library.

Save Our Children's Sight is a partnership created between the San Diego Unified School District, Head Start, and the Abraham Ratner Children's Eye Center at UCSD's Shiley Eye Center.

• This long-term project aims to upgrade the current screening system using an up-to-date, high-resolution digital camera and specialized lens model and developing new screening software.
• This will help provided comprehensive vision care for low-income preschoolers in San Diego County.

UCSD Student-Run Free Clinic

• This long-term project aims to build a Digital Record System.
• Provides accessible, quality healthcare for the underserved in a respectful environment in which students, health professionals, patients, and community members learn from one another.
• Students will be working with UCSD medical school students and faculty to develop a digital record system with medical, psychiatric, and other services integrated into a single database in order to better serve the underserved of San Diego.

TIES

• This long-term project aims to upgrade the current myTIES system used by all TIES teams.
• Designing of the software by the actual users will be a useful advantage.
• Students at UCSD will be working to develop modular software that can be used at various sites of engineering service-learning programs, such as TIES. In an age of increased globalization, students will obtain necessary skills of working on a multi-site, nation-wide project.
  

Lakeside's River Park Conservancy is a nonprofit organization and founding member of the San Diego River Coalition, whose mission it is to preserve and restore the biological integrity and beauty of the San Diego River while integrating recreational, educational, and cultural opportunities for youth, seniors, families and citizens of East San Diego County. http://www.lakesideriverpark.org

Our partnership with Lakeside Conservancy will begin with an exploration of a series of long and short term projects to:  

• Building mobile overlooks for restoration projects    
• Building educational kiosk to provide information about the River Park to visitors

St. Paul's Senior Homes & Services has been assisting seniors for over 40 years now, St. Paul's offers outstanding and innovative residences and services to the elderly in our community by providing the highest quality of facilities, health care and programs through various retirement communities, assisted-living communities, health care and all-inclusive Adult-Day Care facilities.
::http://www.stpaulsseniorhomes.org/

Our partnership with St. Paul 's will begin with two projects:    

• Keeping seniors in their homes longer through the development of smart furnishings    
• Helping nurses better monitor their senior charges using PDA's