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We are excited to see our Owl community come together to serve for KSU Day of Service! Check-in will begin at 8:30AM in the Siegel Recreation Center located at 290 Kennesaw State University Road, Kennesaw, GA 30144. Attendance at the kick-off event is required. When you arrive, you will pick up your Day of Service T-shirt, grab breakfast, and get the address of your service site location. Please find additional details below!
PARKING: If driving to campus, participants are expected to park in the East Parking Deck located at 305 Hopkins Drive, Kennesaw, GA 30144.
Morning Transportation from Marietta Campus to Kennesaw Campus: For students on the Marietta campus, a Big Owl Bus Charter will be available to transport you to the Kennesaw campus. Loading of the bus will take place from 7:45 AM to 8:15 AM at the bus stop outside the Joe Mack Wilson Student Center. This bus will depart from the Marietta Campus at exactly 8:15 AM. There will be a student site leader present to facilitate loading of the bus.
MINOR REGISTRATION: All participants must be at least 12 years of age to participate in the Day of Service. If you wish to register a minor, an adult must register and add them on their behalf. Minor waivers will be available at check-in.
BREAKFAST & T-SHIRTS: You will grab your Day of Service T-shirt and breakfast when you arrive! This year, breakfast will include Chick-fil-A chicken biscuits and plain biscuits. Coffee and beverages will not be served, so please plan accordingly by bringing your own reusable water bottle.
TRANSPORTATION: Transportation is provided for select sites and is listed in the title description of each service project. Participants needing transportation are expected to sign up for a project where it is provided.
WHAT TO WEAR/BRING: All participants are expected to wear clothes they do not mind getting dirty in, including long pants and sturdy, closed-toe shoes.
Please consider bringing the following items, especially if you have registered for an outdoor site:
- Reusable water bottle - Water bottles will NOT be provided.
- Hat
- Sunscreen
- Bug spray
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Gloves (Participants are encouraged to bring their own gloves; however, we will provide gloves for volunteers at The Cherokee Garden and Cherokee County Homeless Veterans as these sites requested gloves.)
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Snacks (if you’d like a snack while at your site)
FIND YOUR SITE TABLE NUMBER: In the morning, this is where you will meet your Site Leader in the gym for additional details. Following the kick-off event, service projects will take place from 10am-1pm.
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Sites
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ACE Community Resource Center Keep Cobb Beautiful District 2 |
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2
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Acworth Community Garden MUST Ministries |
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Advocates for Children Keep Cobb Beautiful District 3 |
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4
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Atlanta History Center North Cobb Regional Library |
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5
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Aviation History & Technology Center Keep Cobb Beautiful District 4: Austell Rd |
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6
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Bethel AME Church Our Giving Garden |
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Birds Georgia Keep Cobb Beautiful District 4: East West Connector |
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8
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Black Voters Matter Papayago Rescue House |
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Chattahoochee National Park Conservancy Keep Cobb Beautiful District 4: Macland/ Powder Springs |
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10
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Cherokee County Homeless Veterans Pearson Middle School The Children’s Haven |
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11
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Community Connections Service Experience Keep Cobb Beautiful District 4: Senior Home Beautification |
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12
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Emmy’s Academy Safepath Children’s Advocacy Center |
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13
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Esp Atlanta Keep Cobb Beautiful District 4: South Cobb Rec |
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14
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Fair Oaks Elementary School Scouting America The Extension Women’s Campus |
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15
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First United Lutheran Church Special Needs Cobb (Marietta Square) The Salvation Army |
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Hand, Hoof, and Heart Simple Needs GA The Extension Men’s Campus |
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Keep Cherokee Beautiful Special Needs Cobb (East Cobb) |
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Keep Smyrna Beautiful Smith-Gilbert Gardens |
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Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park The Cherokee Garden |
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Mostly Mutts Market Wheeler High School |
Help desks will be available in the lobby of the Siegel Recreation Center if you have any questions or concerns upon arrival.
Special Thank You to Our Event Sponsors: VyStar Foundation, Cornerstone Printing, Crane Elder Law Firm, and Rotary Club of North Cobb.
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Registration
Opens Feb 16, 2026 10:00am
Limit
1 shift allowed per registrant
Registration Closes
24 hours before each shift starts or when space runs out.
Age Limit
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Shifts (40)
1 - 40 of 40 Shifts
| Shift | Start Time | End Time | Description | Registrants Needed | |
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| Aviation History & Technology Center - HCAA & MVS | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteers will assist with minor landscape maintenance (weeds, edging, stone raking, etc.) and brush removal from walking trails.
Minimum Age: 16 | 25/25 | Over |
| Mostly Mutts Market | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteers will assist with sorting and hanging clothing, shoes, and cleaning holiday items.
Minimum Age: 18 | 10/10 | Over |
| Atlanta History Center | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteers will be asked to help with line management for the Freedom Plane exhibit. Minimum Age: 18 | 19/20 | Over |
| Community Connections Service Experience | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | A student-led interactive experience connecting students to community service and campus engagement opportunities. | 58/60 | Over |
| Papayago Rescue House - Transportation Provided | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Parrot Toy Creation: Volunteers will create stimulating and enriching toys for the 160 parrots residing at PRH and for distribution to community members who require assistance in providing for their birds. Tasks: Color the wooden pieces using non-toxic, bird-safe dyes. Assemble the prepared wooden pieces into engaging and safe... | 37/36 | Over |
| The Salvation Army | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | The volunteers will be organizing the pantry and other areas that need organizing around the Marietta location. Minimum Age: 18 | 15/15 | Over |
| Black Voters Matter | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | This is a 2 part project: 1. Social Media campaign - Black Voters Matter will talk to volunteers about why voting and service to our community matters 2. Action - Volunteers will write messages about the importance of voting. Please note that all messages are nonpartisan. Minimum Age: 10 | 60/60 | Over |
| Smith-Gilbert Gardens | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteers will assist Garden staff with setting up the summer butterfly exhibit and other beautification projects around the Gardens. Minimum Age: 18 | 50/50 | Over |
| Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park- Transportation Provided | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteers will assist with beautification around Kennesaw Mountain NBP administration buildings, visitor center gardens, and visitor center picnic area. Minimum Age: 18 | 40/40 | Over |
| Scouting America | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteers will assist with environmental conservation work at Camp Allatoona Aquatics Base. Minimum Age: 16 | 22/22 | Over |
| The Cherokee Garden | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteers will assist with garden-clean up, spreading mulch and soil, pruning, and weeding. Minimum Age: 18 | 24/25 | Over |
| Keep Cobb Beautiful District 4: South Cobb Rec | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteers will assist with gardening, weeding, invasive species removal, and mulching. | 46/47 | Over |
| First United Lutheran Church | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteers will assist with general landscape maintenance (raking leaves, clearing weeds, and trimming back bushes and trees in the parking lot). Minimum Age: 18 | 24/25 | Over |
| Keep Smyrna Beautiful | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteers will assist with Habitat Rehabilitation. Habitat rehabilitation works to restore the native ecosystem through removal of invasive species and re-introduction of native plants. Volunteers will thin out and remove invasive plants. This will take place at a location in Smyrna. Minimum Age: 12 | 20/20 | Over |
| The Children's Haven | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteers will assist with outdoor beautification projects (plant flowers, pull weeds, clean windows, lay mulch). Volunteers will help with our Caregivers' Closet Renovation (sorting and organizing donations). Minimum Age: 18 | 20/20 | Over |
| Hand, Hoof, and Heart | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteers will assist with painting and cleaning projects. Minimum Age: 16 | 13/12 | Over |
| North Cobb Regional Library | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteers will assist with prepping the community garden for planting. They will clear last year's growth, spread compost on the beds, and also spread mulch over the entire garden. Minimum Age: 17 | 26/25 | Over |
| A.C.E Community Resource Center | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteers will assist with setting up a talent show and bake sell for which A.C.E Community Resource Center is hosting. Minimum Age: 18 | 10/10 | Over |
| Our Giving Garden | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteers will assist with weeding, mulching, harvesting, organizing, processing donations, etc.
Minimum Age: 17 | 58/60 | Over |
| Special Needs Cobb (Marietta Square) | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteers will flyer shop windows to promote Spring Fundraiser. This event is vital to raise funds to maintain our group homes adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Volunteers will be given flyers and necessary supplies to approach businesses and ask if they can tape a flyer in their window or... | 10/10 | Over |
| Safepath Children's Advocacy Center | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteers will help assemble pinwheels and help decorate our front garden for National Child Abuse Prevention Month with blue decor. Minimum Age: 17 | 25/25 | Over |
| Chattahoochee National Park Conservancy - Transportation Provided | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteers will help NPS staff on the trails. They will close social trails using tools and natural materials to redirect visitors from these unofficial trails that create erosion and restrict native plants from thriving. We will provide gloves and tools. We ask our volunteers to wear long sleeved shirts and... | 60/60 | Over |
| Keep Cobb Beautiful District 2 | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Fair Oaks: Volunteers will assist with litter clean up, community garden weeding, and invasive species removal. Minimum Age: 12 | 58/50 | Over |
| Cherokee County Homeless Veterans | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Help a Veteran by staining or painting a fence to refresh and protect their property. Minimum Age: 18 | 19/20 | Over |
| Simple Needs GA | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteer will sort donations, organize program supplies and assemble kits. Minimum Age: 10 | 19/19 | Over |
| The Extension – Women’s Campus (Female Volunteers Only) | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteers at The Extension Women’s Campus will help sort and organize pantry items, closets, and other shared storage areas to support the daily operations of this residential recovery program in Marietta. Because this shift takes place at the Women’s Campus, only women volunteers are permitted to register for and serve... | 9/10 | Over |
| Keep Cobb Beautiful District 4: Senior Home Beautification - Transportation Provided | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteers will assist with beautification for a senior house. | 40/40 | Over |
| Fair Oaks Elementary School | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteers will assist with cleaning and organizing the food pantry and clothing closet, preparing the space for a new Care Closet, and completing other maintenance tasks around the school. | 61/60 | Over |
| Keep Cobb Beautiful District 3 - Transportation Provided | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteers will assist with invasive species removal. Minimum Age: 12 | 55/55 | Over |
| Keep Cobb Beautiful District 4: Macland/Powder Springs | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteers will assist with litter clean up. | 36/35 | Over |
| Keep Cobb Beautiful District 4: Austell Rd - Transportation Provided | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteers will assist with litter pick up. | 49/50 | Over |
| Keep Cobb Beautiful District 4: East West Connector - Transportation Provided | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteers will assist with litter pick-up. | 51/50 | Over |
| Birds Georgia | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteers will assist with removing non-native plants and/or installing native plants. Minimum Age: 18 | 23/25 | Over |
| Bethel AME Church | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteers will beautify the outside of the church with gardening and help to clean the inside filing paperwork. Minimum Age: 10 | 18/18 | Over |
| ASCEND Houses | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteers will complete cleaning tasks around the ASCEND Houses. | 29/50 | Over |
| Special Needs Cobb (East Cobb Avenues) | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteers will flyer shop windows to promote Spring Fundraiser. This event is vital to raise funds to maintain group homes for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Volunteers will be given flyers and necessary supplies to approach businesses and ask if they can tape a flyer in their window or... | 8/10 | Over |
| Keep Cherokee Beautiful | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteers will help clean a 5-mile section of Kellogg Creek Road and nearby wooded areas along the creek and Lake Allatoona by picking up litter on uneven terrain (grass/weeds and possible mud). This event is a collaboration between Keep Cherokee Beautiful and Allatoona Lake Warriors; supplies (trash pickers, bags, and... | 53/55 | Over |
| Emmy's Academy | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteers will help organize and clean up the center and outdoor area by installing fence mesh, moving mulch, planting flowers/gardening in the front, and organizing toys, office, and classroom spaces. | 18/18 | Over |
| The Extension | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteers will help sort and organize pantry items, closets, and other shared storage areas to support the daily operations of this residential recovery program in Marietta. Minimum Age: 18 | 14/15 | Over |
| Wheeler High School | 9:00am (ET) | 1:00pm (ET) | Volunteers will mulch the athletic field and clean the hallways. Minimum Age: 17 | 37/37 | Over |
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