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This article describes a service learning project implemented jointly by undergraduate and high
school students during summer. The service learning project was designed through a Summer
Research Institute hosted at a Midwestern University; the institute encouraged faculty to recruit
undergraduate students who would partner with area high school students to conduct a
community-based research project in their field of interest. The article describes the partnership
between students, as well as the experiential learning that occurred during: research topic
identification, literature analysis, planning and implementing a mixed-methodology communitybased research project, and during the qualitative and quantitative data analysis, by students.
Using a mosaic theory, the students inferred relationships between three apparently unrelated
spheres of their research: challenges faced by youth in the community, financial health of social
services for youth, and corporate philanthropy for youth services. Recommendations for
designing creative academic, experiential and service learning projects are offered for all
educators.