What are SPIKES?

What are "SPIKES" and what happens while you are on one?

As AmeriCorp defines it, as spike is "a project that requires the team to establish temporary housing in the community where the project is being conducted because it is too far from the campus to travel to and from every day." (NationalService.gov - http://www.nationalservice.gov/node/12336)

Spikes, at least in my opinion and time thus far, are "unique in a sense" to NCCC Traditional track vs FEMA Corp (The program I am a part of). In FEMA Corp, we are very versatile as to where we can go, thus not really having any so called SPIKEs as it is defined since our different deployments in themselves are SPIKEs. If I were to consider them SPIKEs, we would always be on SPIKEs when not in transition at our regional headquarters or other transition site in special rare cases.


Is SPIKE an acronym and if so, what does it stand for?

From my experience and fellow corp members I have talked to, SPIKE is not an acronym nor do the letters stand for anything else. It is mearly a phrase used to define special projects that NCCC Traditional (unique to my knowledge) sometimes go on.

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