Putting It Together in the Community (PIT)

2009 Program Dates: August 23-27

PIT logoPUTTING IT TOGETHER (PIT) in the COMMUNITY was established to help Lancaster county children who were starting school each Fall and has grown since then to encompass other community focus areas.

The pilot workshop was held in 1997 with the Franklin & Marshall Class of 2001. The following year, the program's size doubled from 10 participants to 21. Since 1999, we've been enrolling 50 incoming first-year students.

PIT Application period for 2009 is now closed.
All applicants will be notified by mail by July 6.

This year, PIT received over 150 applicants-the largest amount of applicants since the program's inception! We have been able to increase the number of PIT spots this year to 65! We wish we could take every qualified applicant, but that is not possible.
Thank you to all who applied! Please stop by the Ware Institute when you arrive in September and we will help you connect to service projects on campus and off campus!

M-Badgley  Marissa Badgley '10 PIT Planning Intern for 2009 

Click to see who the PIT ASSISTANTS (PAs) are
Click here for WORK GROUP DESCRIPTIONS

If you have questions about the PIT program, please feel free to call the Ware Institute at 717-291-4164.

Click here for photos of PIT 2009!

Pictures from the 2008 PIT Program

 

Pictures from preivous years' PIT programs

  

 

The PIT program has been designed to accomplish the following goals:

* building a model with first-year students that demonstrates one way to develop and execute public service projects at the College and in Lancaster County
 * creating opportunities for first-year students to meet a variety of community leaders, elected officials and social service providers with whom they can discuss perceptions and understandings of current social issues
 * nurturing the leadership qualities of students who choose to act in the Lancaster community for the sake of others and to discuss in detail how to responsibly handle both the rewards and the risks of action, and
 * encouraging first-year students to think critically about social issues and human need at the individual, communal, societal, and global levels.

 

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