2008 Woodie Awards
Fraternity works with local club
Group does project despite snowstorm
Virginia Berg
Issue date: 3/22/05 Section: Campus
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Last Friday's snow caused many cancellations, but it didn't stop members of Phi Upsilon Omicron from conducting their community service project by helping out the Boys and Girls Club of Brookings.
Phi Upsilon Omicron, which serves as the National Honor Society for the College of Family and Consumer Sciences, has a themed professional project every year. "This year's theme is 'Many Paths Same Destination,"' said senior dietetics major and Vice President of Phi Upsilon Omicron, Veronica O'Leary.
The group started brainstorming ideas for the project in November, and broke into smaller groups based upon their majors from there. Each group then created an activity related to their majors that would be suitable for kids to do, said Phi Upsilon Omicron's president and senior nutritional sciences major Brittany Gorres.
In the past, the group has worked to bridge the gap between young adults and the elderly, said O'Leary. But this time the group decided to work with middle-school students.
"We decided to work with middle-school students because they haven't started to really think of what they are going to do after high school yet, and we wanted to give them some ideas of the options that are out there for them," said Gorres.
Upon deciding that working with middle- school students would be best, the group chose to volunteer at the Boys and Girls Club of Brookings. The group found that it was a good place for their project because there are a lot of middle-school students there, said Gorres.
The end result was four different stations with hands-on activities for the sixth through eighth graders of the Boys and Girls Club to go to. Each group's project seemed to go over well with the kids.
The groups of four to five middle-school students spent fifteen minutes at each of the stations where a small group of SDSU students talked to them about the different majors available in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences, then guided them through an activity related to that station's major.
Phi Upsilon Omicron, which serves as the National Honor Society for the College of Family and Consumer Sciences, has a themed professional project every year. "This year's theme is 'Many Paths Same Destination,"' said senior dietetics major and Vice President of Phi Upsilon Omicron, Veronica O'Leary.
The group started brainstorming ideas for the project in November, and broke into smaller groups based upon their majors from there. Each group then created an activity related to their majors that would be suitable for kids to do, said Phi Upsilon Omicron's president and senior nutritional sciences major Brittany Gorres.
In the past, the group has worked to bridge the gap between young adults and the elderly, said O'Leary. But this time the group decided to work with middle-school students.
"We decided to work with middle-school students because they haven't started to really think of what they are going to do after high school yet, and we wanted to give them some ideas of the options that are out there for them," said Gorres.
Upon deciding that working with middle- school students would be best, the group chose to volunteer at the Boys and Girls Club of Brookings. The group found that it was a good place for their project because there are a lot of middle-school students there, said Gorres.
The end result was four different stations with hands-on activities for the sixth through eighth graders of the Boys and Girls Club to go to. Each group's project seemed to go over well with the kids.
The groups of four to five middle-school students spent fifteen minutes at each of the stations where a small group of SDSU students talked to them about the different majors available in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences, then guided them through an activity related to that station's major.