CANTON, Mo. 鈥� This year鈥檚 Everyone Doing More event had a different look but still had the same message.

乱伦社区 annually begins the first week of school with its EDM event, which is in its 11^th聽year. In years past, it gave students the opportunity to go into the Canton community to perform service projects. This year鈥檚 activities, held Saturday, Aug. 22, were limited to the C-SC campus because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but organizers designed each activity for students to help other groups and organizations.

Among the activities were:

• Painting rocks for The Child Center, Inc., in Hannibal, Mo.
• Painting rocks and writing letters to kindergarten students in the Canton R-V School District.
• Labeling and packaging masks for the Canton R-V School District.
• Filling snack baskets and writing thank-you letters for first responders in Canton and on campus.
• Creating face masks out of fabric for a C-SC alum who has been donating face masks since the start of the pandemic.
• Recording videos of reading children鈥檚 books for the Canton Public Library.
• Making dog toys out of T-shirts for the Northeast Missouri Humane Society in Hannibal, Mo.
• Painting guard rails on campus.
• Making tie blankets for the North Central Missouri chapter of Project Linus, a non-profit organization that provides homemade blankets to children in need.
• Creating education videos on mental health, responsible drinking and social responsibility.

First-year students, transfer students and Wildcat Welcome leaders participated in the EDM event and were supervised by C-SC faculty and staff. About 330 students took part.

鈥淥verall, I really do think it went pretty well,鈥� said Amanda Sorenson, chaplain at Culver-Stockton and coordinator of the event. 鈥淭his was our first year doing it this way, and most of the groups had a good energy and got a lot done. A lot of the projects allowed for creativity and for them to have fun with it.

鈥淪ome projects will benefit the broader community, and we may continue to do some of them in future years. They were fun, they were engaging, and every student was busy.鈥�

Sorenson also gave credit to Katie Conaway, a senior English education and theatre major from Steelville, Mo., who was taking an honors service learning course.

鈥淪he was my right hand during this process,鈥� Sorenson said. 鈥淪he did as much as I did.鈥�

An album of photos from Saturday鈥檚 activities is on聽

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乱伦社区 begins the first week of school with the EDM event, formerly known as the Extreme Dome Makeover. It gives students the opportunity to go into the community to do service. Activities such as landscaping, small scale painting or general cleanup are ideal for this project. All activities must be completed within the city limits of Canton.

Work will be done from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 24. Applications are due July 19.

An application for your project to be part of Everyone Doing More can be found at聽. Interested people should contact Rev. Amanda Sorenson, chaplain at Culver-Stockton, at 573-288-6420 or聽asorenson@culver.edu

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