September Student Leadership Update

Hi All-

Here is an SLB update from Joel, our Student Programming intern at the Center for Urban Connections.

Our first meeting and retreat with the past and new board members for the 2010/2011 school year, was on August 22 in Castlewood. The agenda consisted of setting goals for the year, including two major events for the fall and spring semester. For the fall, we decided to support Project Homeless Connect and this spring, we will start working on Alternative Spring Break. The board has decided to have monthly service projects where each individual on the board will have a chance to set up their own service project and the rest of the group will go to support the event. The day concluded with a team building exercise and rock repelling. We also decided to have bi- weekly meeting the first and third Friday of the month, in the conference room in Tivoli 243, from 9:30-11am.

A couple of interesting points that the board had decided to do is become a student organization on the Auraria campus. The leadership board decided to do this so that students who can only commit to a couple of hours a week can participate in service learning projects. Our first project was held this past Friday, the 24th 8am-12pm with the National Sports Center for the Disabled at Clear Creek Canyon near Golden. The board helped individuals who are blind rock climb; some of them did it for their first time. We helped them put their gear on, give directions to the location and assisted them with climbing.

Our October service project will be volunteering at the Komen Race for the Cure, at the Pepsi Center on Sunday, October 3rd, 2010. Our duties require a time commitment from 10:00am - 2:30pm. If individuals are interested in participating in this event , please register under http://www.komendenver.org/site/PageServer?pagename=rfcd_race_volunteers_overview

Once individuals have completed the registration process, please send an email to Alia Thobani at athobani@mscd.edu with your student I.D. number.

Thanks for reading!

Rachelle
Media/Events Assistant

Center for Urban Connections