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PEOPLE AND CLASS NEWS EDUCATION 235

Late last month, students in Dr. Amy's EDUC 235 class (Mathematics for Primary School Children) participated in match car races to demonstrate knowledge of cardinal, nominal, and ordinal numbers. Despite a few false starts and cars disqualified for leaving the track sideways, the races were an exciting way to explore math concepts. EDUC 235 class members proudly display their match cars.

Education 100 Dr. Gieselmann's EDUC 100 class (History and Foundations of American Education) has been studying the history of Education. One of the fun and rewarding assignments in the course is the “Peep Contest”. Ashlee Kawall, a former student in the course, came back to the class to help with this innovative project. Each group created a display to highlight an education topic from a particular century, using the ever-popular marshmallow “Peeps”. Two awards were bestowed – Best Display and Best Presentation. Special thanks to our esteemed judges, Billie Chandler (Administrative Assistant in the Physician Assistant program), Karen Doss (Administrative Associate to the Dean of the College of Education and Health Sciences), Jeannette Oakley (Director of Education Services), and Lisa Toelle (Senior Administrative Assistant in the School of Education). The project teams and winners are below:

“Peeping Into the Future” – Best Presentation

Paul Reller, Sydney Fritch, Alexa Hammond, Hyunjae Seo, and Katie Gutmann

“Preep School”

“Peeps Scoring Gender Equality”

Macie Lively, Austin Hopf, Emily Rickett, Marley Miller, Kaylan Coffman

“ABCeeps and Sweeps”

Jiwon Noh, Yunchea Kim, Kasey Burns, Dali Mizidy Mekoko, Maria Aleman Mansilla

Kindrea Wilson, Ashton Adams, Kasey Rein, Mara Atristain, Deja Clark

“Education for All Peeple” – Best Display

Megan O’Brien, Melinda Hopf, Heather James Hattie Luchtman, Morgan Goebel

Employment opportunities Evansville Christian School Evansville Christian School After-School Care is recruiting University of Evansville School of Education students for part-time employment at ECS. Open positions could turn into full-time teaching positions and/or would be great references in the future for UE students. For further information, contact Denise McGuyer, Director of Support Services at Evansville Christian School at (812) 477-7777.

McDonald’s The Newburgh McDonald’s is hiring “Rangers” for the Play Place. The hours are from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. Rangers read books and organize games and crafts for children visiting the Play Place. Starting pay is $9.00/hour. Interested students can contact Donna at (812) 459-8579.

volunteer opportunities Dexter Elementary School Dexter Elementary School is looking for some after-school volunteer help. After-school programming and enrichment programs for day care need enthusiastic and creative individuals to work directly with students. Interested UE students should contact Dr. Vic Chamness, Director of Science, Health, and PE at the EVSC either by email ([email protected]) or by phone (Cell: (812) 455-7207 or Office Phone: (812) 4350904) for more information.

American Society of Civil Engineers The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) student chapter on campus has organized a program called Engineers Rock. In this program, the ASCE adopts a local elementary school and visits students once every two weeks to teach a little about different fields in engineering and do fun activities and crafts with them. The students work with a group of 60 fourth graders. The planned visit days for this fall are November 1, 15, and 29. The group will meet on those days in the Koch Center lobby around 12:30 p.m. and will return to campus around 2:30 p.m. The ASCE is looking for about three School of Education students interested in helping and getting involved with teaching and crafts on these days. Service hours are applicable for this event. Any interested students should contact Hannah Kirk, ASCE President, via email at [email protected].

Election Day Volunteers Needed

Mark Lichtenberg, UniServ Director for the Indiana State Teachers Association, is seeking Election Day volunteers to pass out “Educators Recommend” cards at polling places in Vanderburgh, Gibson, Posey and Pike counties. If any UE School of Education students would be interested in helping, even for a short time on Nov. 8, contact Mr. Lichtenberg by phone at (317) 655-3766, or fill out the online form at https://goo.gl/forms/QJJ3B3yt76ufFZm42.

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GAP What is GAP? This innovative, experiential program bridges the GAP between what you learn in the classroom and what you need in the real world. Multi-disciplinary teams of students work side-by-side with leading organizations on real-world issues that matter. Guided by faculty coaches and outside experts, participants produce practical outcomes for their clients. Receive class credit while impacting your world! There are several GAP projects in the spring that might be of interest to (and could certainly benefit) Education majors. For more information, contact: Erin Lewis, Program Director [email protected] 812-488-5002

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