Our event was a blockchain networking event that started in ALA170 and succeeded because of the usage of BLI Habits such as “Collect, Combine, Create”, “Start Small”, and “Expect Challenges” throughout the length of the course. This allowed us to choose our topic, figure out the venue/catering logistics, create a timeline, write a grant proposal, …
When I was younger, my mom used to warn my grade school teacher that I didn’t work well with others. I was a bossy seven year-old, and I’m sure there are people out there that would call me a bossy twenty year-old. I still don’t like group projects because they often come with vague instructions, …
Ready, Set, Action. That was the theme for this year’s Asian/Pacific Islander American High School Conference (A/PIA HSC). This year’s HSC embodied Ready, Set, Action before it even became our theme, when it was just my co-chair, Tiffany, and me FaceTiming over the summer. We already had a billboard-sized vision of what we wanted the …
READY, SET, ACTION: a reflection on a/pia high school conference 2018 Read More »
It was a Saturday night, and like many Saturday nights, I just wanted to relax with my friends. This night, I was especially exhausted, though – I had just wrapped up the Net Impact National Conference, a 3-day conference in Phoenix, Arizona on the intersection of business, social impact and sustainability. The conference had consisted …
Civic Dinners: Opportunities to Learn Through Connection Read More »
A small grant from the BLI and a FABULOUS access opportunity allowed me to go on a chance of lifetime-six weeks in England, talking about the “beautiful game” of football ~ British English for American soccer. Something that many people do not think about is the process to study or intern abroad. For this international …
We want to thank BLI for the grant support that allowed us to significantly subsidize travel expenses for Alpha Epsilon Delta’s ASB trip to New Orleans! We spent the majority of our trip volunteering at Project Lazarus, the oldest and largest residential facility that supports people living with HIV/AIDS in the Gulf Coast region. In …
EnspiRed was an awesome show that is put on all for the benefit of others. This year we decided to donate to Ozone House. We were all pleased to see all of the people that came out to support us. We had six hundred seats and just about all of them were filled. We received a vast amount …
With our grant money, we focused on a manageable goal for our greater project idea, and hosted a publicity event titled ‘The Period Party’. At this event, we spread the word of our soon to be established organization over the course of two days in the hall of Mason Hall. The event occurred on November …
The Dot Org – Go With the Flow, Stop Menstrual Stigmas Read More »
On Thursday, November 30th, our project group SustainabiliTEAM created a successful tabling event that educated people on simple, easy ways to be more environmentally sustainable in their daily life. This event also produced a visual representation of the impact the event had on the campus community with the SustainabiliTREE. So, we ended up accomplishing what we …
I took this trip alone to attend the AAA conference for the year as an undergraduate majoring in anthropology and women’s studies. Although I was not one of the many that presented at the conference, I believed that I should take this trip to learn more about where anthropological current efforts have been allocated. I was interested in …
