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South Dakota Mines students launch free tutoring service
Two SDSM&T graduate students saw a need for more resources for local families and wanted to give back to the community by offering tutoring services to area students.
February 17, 2021
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They wanted to fill a gap for families where students didn’t have the resources they needed.
Debbie, who is from Belle Fourche, says she saw the value of this free service.
Debbie Rankin, Co-Founder of StudyDakota, says, “I know the resources really differ around Western South Dakota of what students have access to, and so we wanted to make it accessible to everyone West River.”
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€