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The Poly Project
What is The Poly Project?
The Poly Project provides regular and sustained opportunities for Tandon students to engage in community service. Our objective is to provide students school-led service opportunities as well as resources to help members of the Tandon community find other service opportunities that interest them.
Who are we?
The Poly Project is based out of the Office of Student Leadership & Engagement and led by a group of student Service Ambassadors who are dedicated to making service opportunities more readily available and visible here at the Tandon School of Engineering.
How can The Poly Project work with your department or club?
There are several ways that you and your office can get involved with The Poly Project:
- Promote our service opportunities and we will promote yours: The Poly Project not only creates our own service opportunities, we promote other service opportunities going on at Tandon, NYU, New York City, and abroad. Send us your service opportunities and we will post them on our website and include them on our soon to come newsletter.
- Partner with us in hosting a service opportunity: Teamwork makes the dream work! Do you, your office, or your club have an idea but aren’t sure where to start? Contact us at thepolyproject@nyu.edu for help in developing a service experience.
- Recommend students for Service Ambassadors: Know a great student who is passionate about service? Encourage them to attend a Poly Project service outing or apply for a Service Ambassador position. Applications are open at the end of every academic year!
For more information please visit our NYU Engage page, email thepolyproject@nyu.edu, or call (646) 997-3800
Additional NYU Service Opportunities
Visit the NYU Center for Student Life on the 7th floor of the Kimmel Center for University Life to find out more information on getting involved in long-term and one-day service projects as well as joining one of 40 community service student club. The office coordinates an array of opportunities with local non-profits in need of a helping hand.
Contact NYU's Office of Community Engagement, located on the 5th floor of 25 W. 4th Street, to find more about the largest university-based tutoring program in the nation, America Reads/America Counts and the NYU Jumpstart program.
NYU's Study Abroad sites provide ample opportunities for Global Service. For more information about volunteer opportunities while studying abroad at NYU global sites, contact the NYU Office of Global Programs.