Blugold Beginnings News
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New grant to support Blugold Beginnings youth programs
UW-Eau Claire’s Blugold Beginnings program has received a nearly $200,000 grant from Service Wisconsin to support its 2019-20 programming.
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Blugold Beginnings Learning Community seeks faculty/staff mentors
The Blugold Beginnings program seeks faculty and staff to serve as college coaches to the incoming class of Blugold Beginnings Learning Community students.
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Two-time alumnus earns prestigious AmeriCorps award
Khong Meng Her will earn his second Blugold degree May 25, a master's degree in history. He then will receive the AmeriCorps Alumni of the Year Award from Gov. Tony Evers June 6 for his work with Blugold Beginnings and the Office of Multicultural Affairs.
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Blugold mentors prepare area youth to compete in robotics competition
Chippewa Valley area middle school students and their UW-Eau Claire Blugold Beginning mentors will compete in a robotics competition and participate in a first-of-its-kind STEAM Demo Day this month.
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China immersion allows Blugolds to connect with Hmong history, identity
During Winterim, several Blugolds were part of an immersion where they learned about and experienced the rich history and culture of Hmong people and other minorities living in Southwest China.
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Advocate, mentor for UW-Eau Claire students of color to receive Regents Diversity Award
Dennis Beale, assistant director of UW-Eau Claire's Blugold Beginnings program, will be recognized Feb. 8 with a UW System Board of Regents 2019 Diversity Award.
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Blugold Spotlight features Jodi Thesing-Ritter
Whether it’s leading a group of UW-Eau Claire students and community members to learn about the nation's civil rights history, or coordinating coding and robotics camps aimed at girls with STEM-related interests, Jodi Thesing-Ritter has one goal in mind.
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Embracing opportunities prepares Blugold for future success
Chantal Bougie has an impressive resume after embracing the many opportunities she found at UW-Eau Claire. She will graduate this month with a degree in kinesiology.
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First Blugold Beginnings robotics competition set for Saturday
UW-Eau Claire's Blugold Beginnings program will partner with area schools to offer its first robotics competition Dec. 1. The initiative aims to decrease the opportunity gap in STEM fields.
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Blugold Spotlight features Dennis Beale
Dennis Beale, assistant director of Blugold Beginnings, is a two-time Blugold alumnus, graduating in 2012 with a bachelor's degree in sociology and in 2015 with a master's degree in higher education professional development.
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Black Male Empowerment takes on the U.K.: A research immersion
In late spring 2018 the Black Male Empowerment student group, under the direction of Jodi Thesing-Ritter and Dennis Beale, embarked on a pilot immersion program to Winchester University where they conducted three comparative research projects.
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'Engaged with UW-Eau Claire' features Jesse Martinez
The Alumni Association is proud to profile Blugolds who return to campus and make a difference in the monthly video series "Engaged with UW-Eau Claire." Every video features a Blugold alum who gives back to UW-Eau Claire in some capacity.
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Blugold Beginnings receives two major grants for 2018-19 program year
Blugold Beginnings at UW-Eau Claire was awarded two grants to for its robotics and College and Career Readiness programs. The grants support STEM and career preparedness programming for low-income, first-generation students and community youth.
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Man on a mission
UW-Eau Claire is attracting more students from inner-city neighborhoods in Chicago, Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Indianapolis thanks to Dennis Beale, a grad who uses his own life experiences to help convince them college is a path to a better life.
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Internship, campus experiences help new grad find future career path
May grad Amanda Thao found her future career thanks to hands-on learning experiences inside and outside her UW-Eau Claire classrooms.
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Blugold Beginnings golf fundraiser set for July 23
Sign up today to enjoy a round of golf while supporting an amazing program serving community youth.
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Alum teaches coding to fifth-grade class thanks to UW-Eau Claire summer program
With the help of UW-Eau Claire’s Blugold Beginnings program and community partners, Katie Albin has added computer coding to her fifth-grade curriculum at Sherman Elementary School in Eau Claire.
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Immersions, internships, student groups shape social work major's college career
Larrick Potvin, a social work major, embraced a wealth of opportunities at UW-Eau Claire. As a result, his college career included everything from international immersions to internships to service.
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Blugold mentors teach local fifth-graders about making change in their community
Thanks to a team of Blugolds, local fifth-graders now understand how decades ago citizenship schools helped African-Americans in their fight against segregation, and how the spirit of these schools still is shaping social justice movements today.
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New grad overcomes homelessness, other obstacles to earn degree
It's taken seven years and two stints as a Blugold, but D’Karlos Craig will graduate with a bachelor’s degree in sociology from UW-Eau Claire in December, making him the first person in his family to earn a degree.
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My identity puzzle
Blugold graduate Khong Meng tells the story of his own inner journey to learn and embrace his heritage in a place where the history and culture of the Hmong people was not widely known.
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Blugold Beginnings to partner with area schools to celebrate National Youth Science Day
More than 60 UW-Eau Claire Blugold Beginnings mentors will partner with Eau Claire County 4-H to bring 4-H National Youth Science Day science programming to eight Eau Claire area elementary schools in October.
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Area students, teachers learn coding at summer camp
Students and teachers from Eau Claire schools spent a week learning coding as part of UW-Eau Claire’s coding camp, a summer program that introduces campers to computer science. Blugold Beginnings has offered the coding camp for several years, but this year for the first time three Eau Claire Area School District teachers are joining the 50 Chippewa Valley 6th-12th graders who participate. The teachers hope to learn how they can incorporate coding into their own teaching, something they say would be valuable given the level of interest their students have in technology.
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In their own words: Blugold Beginnings mentors get personal
Becoming a mentor in the Blugold Beginnings Program has a tremendous impact on students' lives here at UW-Eau Claire. Over the past year, many different BB mentors have decided to share some of their experiences in story form, and we have a collection to share.