Bloomington Center Student is the Cat’s Meow

By Jim Walsh, The Bloomington Center

Adam Breall and I were up to Bloomington’s “Instant Gratification Movie Challenge,” a monthly indie movie filming collective. Each month a theme is chosen like “King for a Day,” “Life in the Fast Lane,” and “Behind the Scenes.” Each participant is encouraged to take their own interpretation of the theme, film a movie, and at the end of the month all the movies are shown at a local concert venue.

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CIP at Woofstock

By Daniel Vance Eakin, 3rd-year student at the Brevard Center
Photos by Zach Lichterman, 1st-year student at the Brevard Center

Woofstock is an event in which various people bring their dogs to the park. It benefited the Greyhound Pets of America. There were crafts to buy, music, food, games, and a dancing dog show. The various crafts sold included dog beds, collars, blankets, and so much more. They also sold a variety of books.

When I arrived at the event as part of my community service, my first duty was to ensure that the arriving guests received one of the many beautifully colored scarves for their dogs. At the end of the event, I and the other students assisted in bringing the remainder of the books for sale to the book seller’s car.

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I’m Independent: A Guide to Prove It

By the students at the Brevard Center

A guide on how to change your parents perspectives during home visitations.

Since you have come to CIP you have made many strides; college, and internship, having roommates, pushing yourself to do new things (and some you might not even be aware of). Your parents, wishing the best for you, gave you this opportunity to learn and grow independently of them.

Now that you are home, you may start to feel like you are in the middle of both worlds, your life living at home with your parents and your life at CIP. The students at the Brevard Center have brainstormed some ways to fight regression and make the most out of your changing relationships with your family.

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Parent Weekend Speech

Kaitlyn Finn, 2nd-year student, College Internship Program at the Berkeley Center

For as long as I’ve had a life philosophy, mine could be summed up by one word – balance. As a child with high levels of anxiety 1 was taught thought replacement therapy, replacing negative, destructive, irrational thoughts about what a failure I perceived myself as with positive, constructive statements.

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A Day at Kennedy Space Center with Charlie Nielsen

By Charlie Nielsen, Brevard Center, First-Year Student

On Thursday, November 7, I went to Kennedy Space Center for their Disability Mentoring Day. I had an unforgettable day. The day started off with meeting my mentor. His name was Eli and he designs facilities for the Kennedy Space Center. I also met Gabe who helped coordinate the event. He drove us around in his 1970 convertible Shelby Torino. He had the top down and it was a beautiful day outside. That was a lot of fun.

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Brevard Center Internship Spotlight on the Florida Wildlife Hospital and Sanctuary

By Janet Hrezo and Matt Graham, Brevard Center

Have you ever fed a baby squirrel by hand or walked a tortoise? For Matt Graham, a first year student at the Brevard Center, it’s all in a day’s work as an intern at the Florida Wildlife Hospital and Sanctuary in Melbourne.

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Brevard Student’s Parent Weekend Speech

By Ben Kesselhaut, CIP Brevard Center student

Hi everyone. My name is Ben Kesselhaut and I am glad to say that I am a part of the College Internship Program. This program has given me insight in helping me to become successful in different areas of my life whether it be cooking, budgeting and goal setting, time management/organization skills to reach my academic potential, becoming more healthy and more fit, residential skills, improving my social skills, or getting career advice.

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Brevard Center Artist: Daniel Eakin

By Janet Hrezo, Brevard Center

Daniel Eakin, a third year student at the Brevard Center, is a poet, writer, playwright and actor. His poetry was featured at Brevard Community College’s 2008 Disability Awareness Day and he is currently directing his short play, “The Interview”, which will be performed by the Brevard Center’s Drama Club. Recently, he has also started working in computer graphics and photography. Here are some of his latest pictures….

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Berkeley Students Participate in Shoreline Cleanup

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Jameson’s Photos Come to Life!

By Jim Walsh, Bloomington Center student advisor

This summer, as a part of College Internship Program at Bloomington’s photography club, Jameson Lanzetta took interpretive pictures to a song featured at the closing credits of a video game he liked. I had a blast editing it together for him!

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The Brevard Center Walks for Autism

By Ashley Titone, Brevard Center student

Walk Now for Autism is Autism Speaks’ signature fund raising and awareness event which takes place in communities across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

Powered by volunteers and families with loved ones on the Autism spectrum, this successful grassroots fund raising effort not only generates vital funds for Autism research but also raises awareness about the increasing prevalence of Autism and the need for increased research funding to combat this complex disorder.

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Goodbye CIP

By Adria Nassim, Bloomington Center student

I can’t believe it’s time already for me to start packing up and saying “See ya sooner than later!” Before I came to CIP, life was very different. I was away at college suffering from severe anxiety and depression which eventually lead to sporadic psychogenic seizure due to trauma.

Although I’ve always been known to be academically contentious, I could no longer focus in school and was faced with the idea of having to take a semester off due to illness. That’s when my parents and I discovered CIP.

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