Civic Skills
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Humane Society
Fundraiser
Spring 2017
ARTIFACT
TAKEAWAYS
Small group facilitation
Community outreach
Event planning
From this experience, I gained six new friends, learned valuable lessons, and helped facilitate a fundraiser for the Humane Society of Northern Utah. This course focused on all of the aspects that make a small group work together in the most efficient method. This particular project proved that when working with individuals who have a common goal, anything can be achieved.
St. Anne's
Lantern House Service
Working alongside classmates and hard working volunteers at a local shelter home was one of the most humbling experiences I have had. I learned important principles during our duties about how to organize multiple projects, take the lead on a few different organizing projects, follow a prioritized schedule and many more wonderful opportunities for personal and professional growth.
ARTIFACT
TAKEAWAYS
Time management
Community regulations
Clear and effective
writing abilities
Athlete Network Networking
Internship Fall 2014
This internship taught me one of the most valuable lessons that we need to know for the future: networking. During my internship, I worked virtually with other athletes all over the country, learned how to market my own brand, advertise for AthleteNetwork and also grow my personal connections. I was able to utilize my time management skills to efficiently organize and work on tasks and assignments, attend online meetings and seminars, and learn effective measures of raising brand awareness. Upon the completion of this internship, on top of my regular school work and track practice, I was able to finish in the top ten percent of interns who go through this internship. Below is a collection of some of my pieces and tasks I accomplished during this time.
ARTIFACT
TAKEAWAYS
Networking
Resume building
Campus interaction
Brand Development
Civic Knowledge
This was a research project I took part in during my research methods course in 2015. The purpose of the study was to define the perception of economic inequality in America. My group and I worked with Center for the Study of Economic Inequality and Poverty leader, Dr. Michael Vaughan, alongside our professor, Dr. Sarah Steimel. We gathered information and statistics by sending out a survey that dealt with the perceptions of inequality and poverty in America. This was helpful to Weber State students because the results would allow us to better understand the community in which we operate. Our major hypothesis was that the differences in total household income explains the multi faceted differences in economic inequality. To our surprise, we had multiple particularly interesting results that were tested through multiple statistic analytics.
ARTIFACT
TAKEAWAYS
Research/survey regulation
Developing more broad
student consensus
Understanding of financial
instability/household
income
Economic Inequality
Research Project 2015
This project involved Weber State Track and Field members creating notes of appreciation to the local veterans homes. Most residents find difficulty staying in a rest home and some rarely get visits from their own family or loved ones. The amount of happiness we saw in their eyes while presenting the cards was truly inspiring and left us wanting to do more work with local veterans homes.
ARTIFACT
TAKEAWAYS
Veteran residency rules
Involvement
Volunteer time
Veteran
Appreciation
The goals of Rise Against Hunger (formerly known as Stop Hunger Now) are to make valiant efforts toward ending world hunger. During this service project with a team of fifty volunteers, we package over 5,000 meals in 1 hour. During this time, I discovered humbling projects that this organization has been apart of both locally and worldwide and how we can become more involved, and I also became inspired to be actively involved in community initiatives such as these. This was a humbling experience that taught me just how much of an impact we can truly make through providing our time and service.
ARTIFACT
TAKEAWAYS
Meal packaging
opportunities
Community and world
hunger
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Stop Hunger
Now
Civic Values
I had a wonderful opportunity to work with elementary students in my local community. I mainly stayed within the Farr West and Ogden area and was given a choice of working with a child in a specific subject such as math, English, or a few other literacy areas. This took place my final year of high school during the fall 2012 and spring 2013 semester. I chose to work with a student on all three different levels of learning. The primary objective of this opportunity was to inspire the children to break out of their shells and learn to both enhance their personalities and confidence and to help them become more proficient in school by focusing on their personality traits and to also learn how to tailor the concepts to each individual learning process.
ARTIFACT
TAKEAWAYS
Educational development
of children
Alternative teaching
styles
Growth Through Guidance
The primary goal of this project was to restore a worn-down building by painting, tossing old furniture and broken facility items, donating loads of clothes to local shelters and rescue missions, painting the walls and deep cleaning the facility.
By renovating the building, it will allow for proper use of space, more classes, and to also provide a place of refuge. During our service project, we: packed 350 school kits for children in Mexico, completed everything needed for an apartment for an incoming refugee family of 6, packed 200 backpacks for children entering the foster care system, collected, delivered and organized enough groceries for 45 local families to eat for a week, cleaned, sorted, painted, and fixed up the Alpine Outreach Center in Ogden, collected and packed hundreds of items for newborns in Mexico, and packaged 289,872 meals for starving kids around the world.
ARTIFACT
TAKEAWAYS
Community outreach
Personal impact on community
Importance of places
of refuge
Alpine Church Community Outreach Center Renovation
Recycling is such a critical concept that we could all become more involved with. There are so many potential opportunities for consumers and companies to use plastic waste. By teaming up with the Northwest Polymers, we would be able to effectively use every last ounce of plastic that is typically thrown away. I enjoyed working on this semester long project and working with my classmates to propose how we can end a problem that is continuing to grow and is progressively getting worse each day. I learned how important it is to become involved in the community and to become educated on the impact we all have. There are multiple ways that we can improve the environment that we live in and it is critical that we take action on these.
ARTIFACT
TAKEAWAYS
Recycling methods
Proposing alternative solutions
for waste management
Formal Education
alterations
Recycling
Proposal
