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Issue date: 8/20/08 Section: News
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Students were split into eight groups based on Boise State's Statement of Shared Values. The statement includes seven values: Academic Excellence, Caring, Citizenship, Fairness, Respect, Responsibility and Trustworthiness. An extra value, Diversity, was added to make eight groups. These smaller groups worked together at different parts of the Summit and presented their value to all the students at the end of the Summit. A staff and student facilitator led each group.
Student facilitators are students who have previously taken part in the Summit. Brett Berning, a social science major, attended the Summit this year as the student facilitator for the Academic Excellence community group.
"I see lots more responsibility on my part to support the students," Berning said. "I'm an active facilitator but also a student leader within that role at the same time."
"It's really rewarding, very fruitful and invaluable," he said of the Summit. "I think what would be excellent is to create something like this on campus, where it can be kind of like a coalition where people continue to do this kind of work on campus, but bringing in more student clubs, officers, any kind of representation."
Olympics
Saturday evening students came together in their community groups to compete in the Summit Olympics. As the light faded, students competed in a variety of events including a water balloon toss, ribbon dancing, frisbee discus, egg drop, and the dizzy bat relay. The gold went to Team Diversity, followed by Team Citizenship with the silver and Team Respect with the bronze.
Challenge course
The Quaker Hill facility houses a high and low ropes challenge course where st dents tested their courage and skills as a team.
The summit has a policy of "Challenge by Choice," which means no students had to participate unless they wanted to. Activities included a 40-foot high cable swing, a 52-foot high rope students walked across and a blindfolded walk through the trees.
Students worked together in their community groups to accomplish each activity.
"It was just really neat to see, kind of, the collaboration of all that teamwork. Just coming together and everybody kind of put their personal interests and their biases and their needs aside," BJ Lewis, Student Programs Board director said. "It was all about the group."
"I thought the ropes course was really good," Russel Rivera, former VP of the Hui-O-Aloha and MLK committee member said. "I thought it was a good team building exercise."
Rivera also commented that he would have liked the ropes course to be conducted earlier in the Summit.
Students were split into eight groups based on Boise State's Statement of Shared Values. The statement includes seven values: Academic Excellence, Caring, Citizenship, Fairness, Respect, Responsibility and Trustworthiness. An extra value, Diversity, was added to make eight groups. These smaller groups worked together at different parts of the Summit and presented their value to all the students at the end of the Summit. A staff and student facilitator led each group.
Student facilitators are students who have previously taken part in the Summit. Brett Berning, a social science major, attended the Summit this year as the student facilitator for the Academic Excellence community group.
"I see lots more responsibility on my part to support the students," Berning said. "I'm an active facilitator but also a student leader within that role at the same time."
"It's really rewarding, very fruitful and invaluable," he said of the Summit. "I think what would be excellent is to create something like this on campus, where it can be kind of like a coalition where people continue to do this kind of work on campus, but bringing in more student clubs, officers, any kind of representation."
Olympics
Saturday evening students came together in their community groups to compete in the Summit Olympics. As the light faded, students competed in a variety of events including a water balloon toss, ribbon dancing, frisbee discus, egg drop, and the dizzy bat relay. The gold went to Team Diversity, followed by Team Citizenship with the silver and Team Respect with the bronze.
Challenge course
The Quaker Hill facility houses a high and low ropes challenge course where st dents tested their courage and skills as a team.
The summit has a policy of "Challenge by Choice," which means no students had to participate unless they wanted to. Activities included a 40-foot high cable swing, a 52-foot high rope students walked across and a blindfolded walk through the trees.
Students worked together in their community groups to accomplish each activity.
"It was just really neat to see, kind of, the collaboration of all that teamwork. Just coming together and everybody kind of put their personal interests and their biases and their needs aside," BJ Lewis, Student Programs Board director said. "It was all about the group."
"I thought the ropes course was really good," Russel Rivera, former VP of the Hui-O-Aloha and MLK committee member said. "I thought it was a good team building exercise."
Rivera also commented that he would have liked the ropes course to be conducted earlier in the Summit.
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