Needs From: South Serves

The purpose of these service hours are to coordinate projects and support community building on campus and in the community

The Zooniverse is the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research. This research is made possible by volunteers—more than a million people around the world who come together to assist professional researchers. Our goal is to enable research that would not be possible, or practical, otherwise. Zooniverse research results in new discoveries, data sets useful to the wider research community, and many publications.

At the Zooniverse, anyone can be a researcher.  You don’t need specialized background, training, or expertise to participate in Zooniverse projects. It's easy for anyone to contribute to real academic research, on their own computer, at their own convenience.

You’ll be able to study authentic objects of interest gathered by researchers, like images of faraway galaxies, historical records and diaries, or videos of animals in their natural habitats. By answering simple questions or completing specific related to them, you’ll help contribute to our understanding of our world, our history, our universe, and more.

With our wide-ranging and ever-expanding suite of projects, covering many disciplines and topics across the sciences and humanities, there's a place for anyone and everyone to explore, learn, and have fun in the Zooniverse. To volunteer with us, just go to the Projects page, choose one you like the look of, and get started.

To learn more and volunteer, visit https://www.zooniverse.org/get-involved

Don't forget to Respond to this Need, so you can track your service hours. You will need to send screenshots of your Zooniverse "Volunteer Certificate" page that displays the number of projects and hours you’ve completed for a certain time period to communityengagement@southalabama.edu in order for us to be able to verify your hours. Please track and submit the actual amount of time spent volunteering.

As an additional reminder, because the process for getting started is linked above, you won't receive a follow-up e-mail from the hosting agency when you Respond to this Need.

Dance/Cheer community service appearances in the Community. Volunteers must be members of the USA Cheer/Dance Teams.

The Office of Community Engagement promotes partnerships between the University of South Alabama community and the Mobile community, and we use South Serves to help make these connections.  We encourage you to look at the Needs and Events on South Serves to see what type of volunteer opportunities, partnerships, and experiences are available in the area.  Check out the types of Needs that connect to your different interests, and the large list of Agencies.  Some needs originate on our South Serves site, while others come to us from United Way's Volunteer Connect agencies. 

If you're interested in receiving training on how to use the South Serves system, feel free to click the blue RESPOND button at the top or bottom of this screen, complete the form that appears, and then click the blue SUBMIT NEED RESPONSE at the bottom of the page.  Someone in the Office of Community Engagement will reach out to you to schedule an orientation session.

If you're viewing this Need while in a South Serves training session, practice the process of becoming a committed neighbor by going ahead and responding to this Need -- click the blue RESPOND button at the top or bottom of this screen, complete the form that appears, and then click the blue SUBMIT NEED RESPONSE at the bottom of the page.  (You'll see that the box changes to "unregister" in case you find out later that you can no longer serve.)

Now you can select TRACK HOURS using the top right-side navigation (Using PC - see dropdown to the right of your initials; or using ipad/phone - the little white box with black slides).  You'll click "+ADD HOURS", and at Select A Need dropdown, you'll see this Need.  Complete the form to add .5 hour of service (one half hour/30 minutes is listed as .5).

Next, review your Volunteer Resume by using left-side navigation and selecting the Dashboard/Home.  You will see a link that says: View your full Volunteer Resume under the Hours By Interest graph.

Helping as needed with the Blue Roof Library Trail in collaboration with The Office of Community Engagement and Boys & Girls Clubs of South Alabama.  Planting library, taking pictures, stocking books, helping with landscape around library, etc.