Each spring, the Sturzl Center for Community Service and Learning hosts Celebrating Service. At this event, students, faculty and community partners share how their own lives and the lives of others have been impacted through service.
The storytelling is inspired by The Moth, an acclaimed not-for-profit organization dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling. Audiences are drawn to the stories, like moths to a flame. These talks were inspired by this idea of five-minute, uninterrupted stories without notes and are both motivating and inspiring!
These celebrating service stories highlight several current and past students, faculty and community partners.
Submissions from 2022
A Small Step in Their Journey, Taylor Earing
Full Circle-Service as a Passion, Laura Jones
Be Good and Be There, Kodee Zarnke
Submissions from 2021
Eight Disruptions, Jaime Edwards
Grateful, Andrew Gehring
Life Changing and Changing Lives, Valerie Rivas
Submissions from 2019
A Half Century of Service, Todd Gehring
The Dying Man, Franco Pacheco
My Shot, Laura Riegg
Privileged in Poverty: A Personal Transformation, Briana Scott
Submissions from 2018
Ordinary Service, Extraordinary Grace, Alex Gruber
Service to Opportunity, Fiona Holahan
Hockey to Hope, Brianna Kelly and Shannon Haggerty
The Power of Storytelling, Audrey Shreiner
Submissions from 2017
I Don’t Want to Talk to Jesus Today, Alexa Brill
Tattoo’s on My Heart, Sarah Cocco
Driving to an Adventure, Holly Nickerson
The Road to Xoxocotla Was Paved with Good Intentions, Bob Osgood
My Brother’s Pants, Joe Zielinski
Submissions from 2016
Be Like An Angel, Taylor Baltus
What Band-Aids Can't Fix, Quincy Kissack
Perceptions of Service, Eric Vanden Heuvel
Un Momento, Colton Wiesner
