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Community Service Project and Tours Sign Up

Instructions for Friday Morning, August 22 Orientation Projects and Tours:

Day Division students are required to attend this event. It is optional for Evening Division students. You may only sign up for one option. Sign-up starts on Friday, July 11 and is first come, first served.

Sign-up Deadline is Thursday, July 31. If you don't sign up by July 31, you will be assigned randomly to one of the remaining options.

  • Name:
    Email:
    Phone:

  • Hartford Children's Theatre

    Priority:
    Located across from the Mark Twain House, the Hartford Children's Theatre is a non-profit organization that gives children in the Greater Hartford area access and exposure to high quality theatre for young audiences and year round educational opportunities. Hartford Children's Theatre's commitment to excellence was honored by the American Alliance for Theatre and Education's prestigious Winifred Ward Award for Outstanding New Children's Theatre in 1993, as well as by the New England Theatre Conference's Moss Hart Award in both 1998 and 2004. Along side staff and board members, we will be painting rooms, organizing and setting up a costume room and doing other tasks that require attention.
    Maximum number: 30

  • Kids Backpack Program

    Priority:
    There are children in Hartford that rely on resources such as free school breakfast and lunch during the school year. The BackPack Program is designed to meet the needs of hungry children at times when other resources are not available, such as weekends and school vacations. In conjunction with Foodshare, our local food bank, we will be stuffing backpacks with child-friendly, non-perishable, easily consumed and vitamin fortified food in addition to backpacks with school supplies for the coming academic year for neighborhood schools.
    Maximum number: 30

  • Mark Twain House & Museum Tour

    Priority:
    Located a few blocks away from the Law School the Twain House is the premier attraction in Hartford. The Clemens family lived in this19-room mansion decorated by Louis Comfort Tiffany from 1874-1891. During that time, Twain traveled extensively, lost a fortune on a typesetting machine, and wrote some of his most famous novels including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
    Maximum number: 30

  • Walking Tour of West End & Elizabeth Park

    Priority:
    The Law School is located in the West End of Hartford, a National Historic area that is filled with beautiful and architecturally significant houses. It is also home to the Governor's residence, an imposing Georgian revival mansion situated near the highest point in the City on upper Prospect Avenue. Four landscaped acres surround the residence continuing the garden setting of Elizabeth Park, just opposite on Asylum Avenue. Elizabeth Park is the oldest municipal rose garden in the country. The park's renowned Rose Garden (2.5 acres) was created in 1904, but by the 1970's, the city could no longer afford the garden. However, volunteers banded together and came to it's rescue. Today, the Park contains about 15,000 bushes of 800 rose varieties and encompasses many garden areas, pathways, century-old greenhouses, lawns, bowling greens, tennis courts, a picnic grove, and a scenic pond.
    Maximum number: 30

  • West End Community Center

    Priority:
    Located two blocks from the Law School, the West End Community Center is a non-profit organization that offers education and cultural programs and activities for all ages. They have a reading library and a computer lab open five days a week for internet access and tutoring. Programs include computer workshops, resume classes for youth and adults, Saturday Children's Storytime hour, a drum Circle class, and a kick boxing class. WECC has community service opportunities such as mentoring, and would like to create more partnership with the Law School. We will be helping with a voter registration drive in the West End along with staff and volunteers from the area.
    Maximum number: 30

If you require any accommodations for a disability, please contact Jane Thierfeld Brown at 860.570.5130 or by email.

  • Attire: Dress comfortably accordingly for the option you selected. All events will be held rain or shine.
  • Time & Place: We will meet under the tent and leave promptly at 9:00 am and will walk to each location.

If you have questions, please email orientation@law.uconn.edu

      
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