Hello! We are the Dandelion Butterfly Team!
We are ViDaleya Gilliland(right), Jack Moses(middle), and Jessica Whittaker(left). We worked with Rock Hollow Woods(RHW). ViDaleya is a Rehabilitation Health Services major, Jack is a Cyber security major and Jessica is a Business major.
*Fun Fact: ViDaleya likes to garden, Jess likes to go camping and Jack likes to play video games.*
At RHW we cut invasive species out from a bird blind which was made out of bamboo and cut out grass from a butterfly garden. RHW’s mission is to help educate people on how to save their environment.
Now that you know a little about us Welcome to our team!
Research Summary
For our research, we did research on the effects of climate change on birds and butterflies. We included examples of monarch butterflies and how climate change affects them. Attatched below this is our poster board and our brochure:
Left to Right: Jack, Jessica, ViDaleya
Our Brochure
Who do we work with?
We worked with Rock Hollow Woods. They love children and have made it a goal to provide them with positive outdoor experiences. They teach them about nature and how to protect it. For our service hours, we split it up between two days of four-hour sets. We cleared invasive species from the butterfly and bird garden. The person who we were assigned to work with was named Amy. We really enjoyed working with her and learned a lot from her whether it be about certain bird sounds, the area or any other common topics. She really helped make it fun and hope to see what it looks like once all the flowers have grown.
Left to Right: Jess, ViDaleya, Amy, Jack
We also did a slideshow presentation with more research information and pictures of our work. Click the photo below for the presentation!
We also created a service video that contains photos of all of our work!
Reflection
We loved working with them. We all really enjoyed cleaning up and learning more about how to save our environment! We hope that as this class continues to work with future classes to work with this wonderful organization and help make a difference in the world.