Student Project Showcases Local Farmers

EAST PEORIA — Professor Paul Resnick’s English 111 classes and Professor Anastasia Samoylova’s Photography-1 Art 140 class have come together on a Service Learning Project.

The purpose of the project is to combine classroom learning objectives with real-world applications to benefit the students.

Students from both courses went on field-trips to interview farmers as well as photograph their operations and produce. Students will be collaborating on creating posters that feature the farmers and their farms.

Twelve posters will be displayed in the Student Lounge at the East Peoria campus on Thursday, Nov. 14 from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m., with the poster judging contest at 11 a.m. Members of the community are encouraged to visit.