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Community Service Activities

OXE is involved with several community service events each year. It is important to contribute to our local community whenever possible. Additionally, these activities are always enjoyable and a welcomed break from school. Below are descriptions of our annual activities.

Christmas Decorations at Golden Gate Retirement Home

During the holiday season, we help set up Christmas decorations at the Golden Gate Retirement Home. The experience is always fun and truly rewarding.

Middle School Outreach

In the spring semester, chemical engineering students venture to a local middle school for our outreach program. Our volunteers educate the students about oil spills and assist with a hands-on oil spill simulation activity. The goals of this program are to introduce these young minds to chemical engineering and help develop their critical thinking skills.

Voices for Children

Each year more than 800 incidents of child abuse and neglect are investigated by authorities in Boulder County. About 150 of these incidents become court cases in the Boulder Juvenile Court. When the court case begins, the court appoints an attorney to represent the best interests of the child. These attorneys are known as GALs. The court also may appoint a CASA to work with the GAL on specific child abuse and neglect cases. Voices for Children recruits, trains, and provides ongoing supervision for these CASA volunteers.

In the spring semester, members of Omega Chi Epsilon stuff envelopes for Voices for Children’s annual fundraiser. The event raises thousands of dollars annually.

Goggle Collection

Most engineering students are required to take chemistry lab, but few of them use their goggles and gloves after the course completion and end up eventually throwing them away. At the end of the fall and spring semesters, we collect goggles and latex gloves from these students and donate them to various public schools.