It fit with my volunteer work with the fire department in my town. My wife and daughters all have got involved with the town and non profit activities. So my problem is how to make service learning work in my curriculum and still have time to give students a very rigorous automotive program. It took one week to interview other educators that have done service learning to find a match with any of my units of instruction. I found examples of students working in day cares, nursing homes, homeless shelters and the like, nothing close.
Automotive students like to do projects related to cars.
Keeping my student's interests in mind, my first thoughts were to have them work on elderly or disadvantaged person's vehicles. This could get expensive, and liability was also a factor. This idea would work, maybe at a later date as we get more experienced in service learning. CMTC has done state wide training for the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, and there are many areas related to auto emissions. As matter of fact, they had around six to eight projects that were perfect for automotive students.