The team invited many outreach organizations in Stone, Taney, Christian, and Greene County to present at the first annual se4rvice learning fair. The service learning fair took place the first week in February and over 15 outreach organizations were able to communicate to the student body the missions of their organizations and how each one serves the community. After the service learning fair the students had the opportunity to sing-up for a service learning project based on the information presented during the fair.
The service learning day was scheduled for April 19, 2016. This was the day all of the juniors at Hollister High School were taking the state mandated ACT. All students were placed in a service learning projects. Students served in nursing homes, animal shelters, thrift shops, food pantries, and many other places. There was even a bus that drove around the Hollister community performing random acts of kindness. With all of the students out of the high school building the juniors were able to take the ACT in a building with little to no