Special Events Listing
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Academic Calendar for Summer of 2009 SESSION 1Academic Calendar for Summer of 2009 SESSION 2
Academic Calendar for Fall of 2009
Academic Calendar for Spring of 2010
21st Century Scholars - Purdue University College Tour
Grades 11-12
http://events.iupui.edu/event/?event_id=1578
Calling All Artists! National Design Competition
National Design Competition Starting October 16, 2009 FEED/READ will launch a national design competition for the reverse side of an upcoming FEED/READ 3 bag. All students are encouraged to create a design that complements the FEED/READ brand and aligns with FEED/READ’s mission and vision. The winning artwork will be printed on the reverse side of a new FEED/READ 3 bag. Submitted designs will be posted on the FEED Projects Facebook fan page. The design with the greatest number of “Likes” registered on the fan page by Tuesday, December 15, 2009 will be the winner. To submit a design, send a digital photo to infor@feedprojects.org by Tuesday, December 1, 2009. More information is available on the FEED Projects website at www.feedprojects.org and the Facebook fan page. About FEED Projects, LLC FEED Projects was started in 2007 by Lauren Bush, an honorary spokesperson for the United Nations World Food Programme, and Ellen Gustafson, a former United Nations Communications Officer. FEED Projects sells FEED bags and a portion of each bag is donated to the United Nations World Food Programme to feed children around the world. For more information, please visit www.feedprojects.org. About Room to Read Room to Read is an innovative non-profit leader dedicated to promoting and enabling global education. Founded in 2000, the organization is based on the belief that education is crucial to breaking the cycle of poverty in the developing world. Since then, the organization has supported over three million children by providing increased access to higher-quality educational opportunities. Room to Read has established more than 700 schools and over 7,000 bilingual libraries with five million books, and continues to support the education of nearly 7,000 girls. For more information, visit www.roomtoread.org. About Barnes and Noble, Inc. Barnes and Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller and a Fortune 500 company, operates 774 bookstores in 50 states. Barnes and Noble College Booksellers, LLC,(www.bncollege.com)a wholly-owned subsidiary of Barnes and Noble, also operates 624 college bookstores serving nearly 4 million students and over 250,000 faculty members at colleges and universities across the United States. Barnes and Noble is the nation’s top bookseller brand for the sixth year in a row, as determined by a combination of the brand’s performance on familiarity, quality, and purchase intent; the top bookseller in quality for the second year in a row and the number two retailer in trust, according to the EquiTrend® Brand Study by Harris Interactive®. Barnes and Noble conducts its online business through Barnes and Noble.com (www.bn.com), one of the Web’s largest e-commerce sites, which also features hundreds of thousands of titles in its eBookstore (www.bn.com/ebooks). Customers can buy and read eBooks on a wide range of platforms, including the iPhone and iPod touch, BlackBerry® smartphones, as well as most Windows® and Mac® laptops or full-sized desktop computers. General information on Barnes and Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the Internet by visiting the company’s corporate website: www.barnesandnobleinc.com.
http://events.iupui.edu/event/?event_id=1685
Mexico Immersion Community Program
The Mexico immersion program is a rich experience in language and culture. In addition to learning conversational Spanish, participants will expand their knowledge and understanding of Mexican culture and history first-hand, through classroom discussions, excursions to various sites in Mexico and by living with a Mexican host family.
http://events.iupui.edu/event/?event_id=1333
Titleist Performance Institute Golf Specific Training Program
This program is instructed by Healthplex’s Titleist Performance Institute Certified Golf Fitness Instructor, Tomo Shimano. The program includes a golf specific assessment to find you weaknesses and/or limitations. It also includes either a program or 30 minute training sessions to correct your weaknesses and/or limitations and make you physically better for your golf swing therefore improving your overall golf game. Programs • Assessment- Members: $75, Non-members: $85 (You will be assessed on 11 golf specific mechanics) • Assessment and Program- Members: $150, Non-members: $170 • Assessment and 6-30 Minute Golf Specific Training Sessions- Members: $300, Non-Members: $350 • Assessment, 12–30 Minute Golf Specific Training Sessions, Re-Assessment- Members: $550, Non-members: $650 All sessions are individual sessions. The program is open to members and non-members. For pricing, questions or more information please contact Kelly O’Brian, Fitness Programs Coordinator, at 920-7414 or kobrian@healthplex-indy.com.
http://events.iupui.edu/event/?event_id=1309
Flash CS4: Interactivity Basics
Flash CS4: Interactivity Basics Intended for experienced Flash designers ready to learn the basics of programming ActionScript, Flash's native scripting language. This workshop covers the basics of ActionScript 3.0 and provides an overview of using it to create interactive, non-linear Flash movies. Topics covered include how to architect Flash movies for optimal flexibility and maintainability, deploying movie clip and button symbols, and displaying text messages dynamically, based on user activity. Participants will: architect movies using nested timelines create and edit button symbols understand and specify events write ActionScript 3.0 code in the Actions panel populate text fields dynamically control hierarchically organized timelines using ActionScript 3.0 publish Flash movies (to HTML) The following workshops are suggested prerequisites to this workshop: Flash CS4: The Basics Participants should already be able to: draw graphics using Flash's vector drawing tools assign content to layers in the timeline use keyframes to control changes to objects on the stage understand when and how to create graphic, button, and movie clip symbols