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Other Community Projects

Ranken Volunteers

Ranken faculty and staff are involved in various community events and organizations. Some of these include:

• Community Wellness Fairs
• Members of Ranken’s Internet and Web Technology (IWT) department volunteered their time for the creation of a website for the Lewis Place Historical Preservation project
• Members of the Ranken Outdoor Club hosted and taught a free Hunter Safety Certification course in conjunction with the Illinois Department of Conservation
• Employees participate in community hosted events such as Blood Drives and United Way campaigns

St. Louis Science Center's Community Science Day

At the end of May 2010, Ranken participated in the “Community Science Day” held at the St. Louis Science Center. Al Davenport, automotive instructor spent the day at the event showing off an “Allis G” battery-powered tractor, which was developed and adapted with the help of students and instructors in the PMT and AMT departments. The all-electric farming tractor was constructed in conjunction with an area farm focused on organic and sustainable farming and was a big hit at the event. Guests could read about the process of constructing the tractor while also checking out the electrical “guts” of the vehicle and could also take turns starting it up!

The tractor will be donated to the Community Garden at La Vista in Godfrey, Ill.

Rebuilding Together

In May 2010, Team Ranken, made up of 27 volunteers including current students, new students, alumni, staff and families, joined Rebuilding Together in their national effort to clean up and repair homes in St. Louis. Team Ranken’s home, located on St. Louis Avenue in north St. Louis, needed some TLC inside and out.  

For eight hours Ranken volunteers worked together to make an elderly man’s home safe, clean, and rain-proof. Tasks included cleaning windows inside and out, laying tile, hanging drywall, and painting walls and fences as well as installing soffit and fascia. 

Robotics Teams

Several Ranken faculty members sponsor and support local robotics teams that compete on the state and national level. In 2010 Ranken donated t-shirts to the Cyborganics team, a robotics team from Jackson Park elementary.

INT Helps Local Church

At the end of 2009, Pastor Bonner from the Pleasant Green Missionary Baptist church, located near campus, contacted John Wood, vice president of student success, to see if Ranken would be willing to help them build a guard booth for their church parking lot. Wood contacted Greg Presley, the INT department chair, who agreed to donate time and materials to complete the project. INT first built the shell of the building in the INT shop then transported it to its current location on Page Avenue and Rev G H Pruitt, about one block from campus. INT students spend several hours on this project and finished it today, in time for the church to make use of it this Sunday. For the booth, INT donated all the electrical, trim and casing to finish, fasteners, and labor. The Carpentry department was also generous enough to donate the tar paper, shingles, siding and cedar lumber.