Ballroom Blitz

Today students from the class packed into UWM's Union's ballroom to learn all about the Academic Service Learning project that they signed up for.

When empty, the ballroom appears to be a nonthreatening and large open space:

Image from: http://www.continuumarchitects.com/htmdocs/portfolio/portfolio_item.php?id=1

Today however, the ballroom was packed to the brim and had more of an appearance like this:

Image from: http://capcityliberty.blogspot.com/2010/11/youth-social-justice-forum-gets.html

The different participating organizations set up throughout the ballroom with displays that explained the missions of their organization.

Alliance for the Great Lakes was tucked in the back right-hand corner, and I was able to find it after a little searching.  Unfortunately, the Milwaukee area representative for the Alliance for the Great Lakes, Todd Brennan, could not attend the event, so our discussion was lead by the program director for the Center for Community Based Learning, Leadership, and Research.  She was able to explain to us that we would be broken into groups, with each group responsible for the clean up and monitoring of a Milwaukee area beach.  We will have a mandatory training in March that will tell us more.