Candace Paulin and Tyler Ferguson Senior Service Learning

Candace Paulin and Tyler Ferguson Senior Service Learning - Golfmoor Baseball Association

About Us Candace: ● Played basketball for 4 years (team captain 1 year) ● Played varsity softball 4 years (team captain 2 years) ● National Honors Society ● Academic All-City (3 years both sports) ● Working at Hacienda west since August, 2014 Tyler: ● Wrestled for 4 years (team captain 1 year) ● Ran cross country for 2 years ● Academic All-City (2 years) ● Working at Schnuck’s since October, 2014

Plans for the future Candace: ● Attend Ivy Tech for 1 year to take freshman courses, then transfer to University of Evansville or University of Southern Indiana ● Major: Elementary Education Tyler: ● Attend The University of Southern Indiana ● Major: Business Administration

Golfmoor Baseball Association ● The by-laws of our association is “The purpose of these leagues is to teach the fundamentals of baseball to our local youths. In the process we hope to promote good sportsmanship, team pride, and self esteem. ”

Mentor Our mentor was Mike Staubitz, he helped us work on days that neither of us had work or practice. He also helped us clean up whenever we needed help. He was super helpful to us and let us get our hours done quickly. Mike is the president of the association.

What we did ● At Golfmoor we worked in the concession stands, cleaned the park and dugouts, and we also worked in the fall festival booth. ● We spent the majority of our time working with kids in the concession stands, the rest of it was spent getting the Fall Festival booth ready and cleaning up after the games.

Challenges and Successes Challenges ● Finding enough time between our sports practices ● Worked efficiently while being in the concession stand by ourselves Successes ● Helped kids learn how to work in the concessions and count money ● Made Fall Festival booth look a lot better

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Personal Growth Candace: Tyler: This project has taught me how to manage my time wisely, and also how to be patient with kids. I plan on being an elementary teacher when I’m older so teaching them was good practice. I also grew in maturity because Tyler and I were the ones in charge, instead of having older people in charge of us. This project has taught me how to work at an efficient pace when we were busy. It also taught me how to manage my time wisely, and it taught me how to work better with people. I too felt like I matured because we were the ones that were in charge, instead of the ones who were taking orders from others.

Conclusion We both enjoyed this project very much, it was in an environment that we were both familiar with and loved. We got to work with nice people when we worked the Fall Festival booth as well. This was a major success for us and we are glad we had the opportunity, because it helped us grow as people.