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Show your new/ MONDAY'JUNE 12 *2006 A3 Help yourself by helping others Melodie Navalta UTAH VALLEY STATE COLLEGE Wellness Education invites you to live well Whether it is your expanding waistline, high cholesterol, stress load or eating habits that has you frustrated this summer, Wellness Education has the resources to help you! If you are ready to feel better, eat better and look better, than there is a program ready for you! It's called Healthquest. You will meet one-on-one with a Wellness Education counselor and get nutrition, exercise, stress management and other health information to fit your lifestyle needs. A typical Healthquest program consists of 8-10 sessions that last for about one hour. You will be given a full personalized health profile based on your responses to a questionnaire and a fitness test, along with access to fitness equipment, books and videos, recipes and your very own binder full of the latest health information. And it's only $15 for the whole program! The Department of Wellness Education is made up of four staff members and college interns all extensively trained in nutrition, exercise plans, stress management, smoking cessation, etc. All staff members are also certified personal trainers. Each semester they see numerous clients needing help to change their basic health habits. Are you ready to get healthy? Sign up online for Healthquest at http://www.uvsc.edu/wellnessed/ourservices/healthquest2.html. Wellness Education is located within Student Health Services, room SC 221. Look for this column each month in the College Times Distance Ed From TTIX-AT TTIX comes from the presenters and participants." This year TTIX experienced an attendance increase of approximately 33%, and it is anticipated that it will continue attracting those interested in teaching with technology nationally and even globally. One of the Workshops involved a live video conference from Australia with Dr. Neil Anderson FRO, James Cook University. The topic was "Collaborative Research Team Generator: Enhancing University, Industry and Government Partnerships." Dr. Anderson spoke on the Research Seeker, a SQL database driven website that enabled the mapping of existing areas of education and social research strengths and topics in Information and Commu- nication Technology. Two current research projects Dr. Anderson shared were those concerned with female participation in Information Communication Technology and another with community use of pedal powered computers in villages in Laos. "The feedback we've received thus far has been overwhelmingly positive," said Mitchell. "One participant in particular stated that this is the best conference she and her colleagues have ever attended and they have spent big dollars on attending conferences. What an added value that this conference is free." Presentation materials from TTIX will be posted online as they are received from presenters. For more information on TTIX go to: www. uvsc.edu/disted/conference News Writer When applying for scholarships, jobs or internships, volunteer work looks great on a student's resume. It also makes you feel great about yourself, builds confidence in a skill or talent and helps you to develop job-related skills. With that in mind, the summer is the perfect time when students and faculty members have extra time to kill. If you're bored and have lots of time, instead of getting into trouble, you could volunteer regularly the whole summer. If you don't have that much time, get a group of friends together and volunteer for one event or a few of them. "There are always volunteer opportunities during the summer," said Alexis Palmer, Coordinator at UVSC's Center for Service and Learning. "The best place to go is to visit our online database with over 300 volunteer opportunities. Students can access the online database at www.volunteersolutions.org/uvsc. Additionally, I send out weekly volunteer opportunities by e-mail every Monday. If students would like to receive this e-mail, they can send their name and e-mail address to volunteer@uvsc.edu. This e-mail is also posted on our front door to the office." Here is just a small list of volunteer opportunities: 1) Become a Summer Day Camp Counselor for kids from low-income families here in Provo. Camp will take place July 10-26, 2006, from l0a.m.-2p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, in the Boulders Apartments at 750 S. 650 W. Provo, UT 84604. For more info, please contact Jamie Wagner at (801) 655-0258 or email jamiewagner429@gmail. com. 2) America's Freedom Festival at Provo is seeking volunteers to fill many responsible positions such as working at venue information booths, safety personnel, giant helium-filled balloon handlers and many other exciting activities. with getting into graduate If you are interested, please utah.gov. visit www.freedomfestival. Students can also complete school, dental school, mediorg or contact Melanie Crop- UVSC's Service-Learning cal school, etc. Additionally, per at 369-1185 for more in- Distinction program where employers are looking more formation. Each event holds students can select from at students' experience with a training required for their either a two-year or a four- service." volunteers. year program. Another perk? There are When asked why UVSC many scholarships that are 3) Volunteers are needed to care for children of Hispanic students should consider offered to volunteering stuvictims of domestic violence. being a Student Scholar, dents. Sessions are Thursday nights Alexis Palmer replied, So instead of moping "This is a great opportuni- around home or spending at 6:30p.m. Volunteers are responsible ty for students to be recog- your summer as a couch to help children partici- nized for the service they potato, why not volunteer? pate in therapy and pro- are doing. 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