Mines Students Develop Free Tutoring Service
RAPID
CITY, SD (Feb. 9, 2021) — A new organization created and run by students
at South
Dakota Mines offers free
tutoring to K-12-age students.
StudyDakota is the brainchild of Debbie Rankin and
Kate Dickinson, both biomedical engineering graduate students at
Mines. Rankin began exploring the idea of a tutoring program after volunteering
her time for the Homework Helpers program in New York. She
shared her idea for a similar local program to her friend and classmate
Dickinson.
“It was a five-minute conversation that turned into a large
project,â€