Health is Wealth...Movement is Medicine! Raise The Bar Theroughbred Boxing #Seattle #bartendaz

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Mentors Needed ==>>Young Geniuses Science & Engineering Club at UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center...Thursdays 4pm-5:30pm @upc206 #seattle

Mentors needed ==>>Young Geniuses Science & Engineering Club at UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center.  Thursdays 4:30pm - 6:00.

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Young Geniuses Science & Engineering Club

Thursdays 4pm -6pm

UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center

The young Geniuses Science Club seeks to expose youth to fun and educational experiences in math and science.  Using a culturally relevant approach that highlights indigenous people’s contributions to the field of science, children are engaged in various projects including age appropriate chemistry experiments and fun with robotics and solar.

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One Word Can Change A Nation! ==>> SistaSoulSpeak Writing Cipher @ UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center @upc206 #seattle #plantseedsgrowdreams #wordisbond

SistaSoulSpeak: Poetry & Spoken Soul Workshop
Tuesdays 4pm – 6pm
UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center
Artist In Residence: Nicquitta “Qehmet” Brooks

SistaSoulSpeak is a poetry and spoken word workshop focused on giving young women an opportunity to discover and share the beauty within and express themselves creatively through writing and performing poetry and spoken word.  Participants will explore inspirational materials and then create their own. A great release and pick-me-up for young women who may be stressed from life issues. Participants will also have opportunities to perform and be introduced to other personal development resources.

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SistaSoulSpeak Writing Cipher @ UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center #seattle

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Game Recognize Game Urban Sports Marketing Academy visits Seattle University Masters in Sports Administration and Leadership #seattle #sports #business #seattleu

Seattle, WA - Members of Game Recognize Game Urban Sports Marketing Academy visited the Masters in Sports Administration and Leadership at Seattle University.   Dr. Galen Trail, Coordinator of the MSAL program hosted the visit giving youth an opportunity to audit his Consumer Behavior class and observe final presentations by the graduate students.   

Dr. Trail gave and overview of the program as well as highlighted the importance of managing your personal brand, developing a marketing plan for yourself and building a network to help you achieve your goals. He also shared the current employment of students at the program that ranged from interns at minor league baseball franchise to director of operations for major sports organizations.

Youth attending the program had positive reactions to the experience.

"We learned about marketing and how to target our audience in order to expand our fan base." said Warsame "DJ Same" Warsame a junior at Rainier Beach High School and aspiring entertainment entrepreneur.

Najee Ali, a student at Seattle Central Community College stated "It showed me what steps to take.  If football doesn't work I plan to go to law school and become a sports agent or major in communications and become a broadcaster...he taught us about building networks and getting to know people."

Steve Banks of Banks Sports Ventures and agent for Rodney Stuckey of the Detroit Pistons also joined the group providing insights as a working professional in the field. Sharing his thoughts on the Game Recognize Game Sports Marketing Academy Banks added "When I was a youngster I didn't have programs like this...being from the hood and able to come on the campus of Seattle University...so the access, I was impressed...you might see me in class next time you come!"

About Game Recognize Game Urban Sports Marketing Academy
Founded in 2008, the GAME RECOGNIZE GAME Urban Sports Management Academy is an experiential learning project for at-risk youth. The project introduces youth to the many business and career opportunities surrounding professional sports. Participants gain valuable skills including decision making, strategic planning, marketing and resource management by planning the annual Heal The Hood Outdoor Youth Basketball Tournament at Umoja Fest community basketball tournament and related activities. The curriculum uses professional sports as a lens to examine the attitudes and behaviors necessary for success on the court or playing field and in life. Guest speakers include professional and college athletes, sports agents, entertainment lawyers, sports journalists and more.  For more info contact Earl Parker at 206.683.9164 or via email at earlparker21@yahoo.com

About Seattle University Masters in Sports Administration and Leadership Program
Seattle University offers a master’s level sport management degree (Master’s degree in Sport Administration and Leadership - MSAL) and a joint JD/MSAL degree with the Law School. The MSAL program provides an education that is both immediately applicable to sport management careers and yet is still driven by advances in theory across a wide variety of disciplines. Started in 2006, the program has graduated 66 students so far and has 88 currently in the program, with each new class adding 30 more in a cohort. Graduates are employed by sport organizations such as the Seattle Seahawks, Seattle Storm, Seattle Sounders, Seattle Mariners, Major League Soccer, Seattle University, University of Washington, Stanford University, Everett Silvertips, Tacoma Rainiers, Arizona Western University, Willamette University, and Montana State University.

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Game Recognize Game Urban Sports Marketing Academy visits Seattle University Masters in Sports Administration and Leadership #seattle #sports #business #seattleu

Seattle, WA - Members of Game Recognize Game Urban Sports Marketing Academy visited the Masters in Sports Administration and Leadership at Seattle University.   Dr. Galen Trail, Coordinator of the MSAL program hosted the visit giving youth an opportunity to audit his Consumer Behavior class and observe final presentations by the graduate students.   

Dr. Trail gave and overview of the program as well as highlighted the importance of managing your personal brand, developing a marketing plan for yourself and building a network to help you achieve your goals. He also shared the current employment of students at the program that ranged from interns at minor league baseball franchise to director of operations for major sports organizations.

Youth attending the program had positive reactions to the experience.

"We learned about marketing and how to target our audience in order to expand our fan base." said Warsame "DJ Same" Warsame a junior at Rainier Beach High School and aspiring entertainment entrepreneur.

Najee Ali, a student at Seattle Central Community College stated "It showed me what steps to take.  If football doesn't work I plan to go to law school and become a sports agent or major in communications and become a broadcaster...he taught us about building networks and getting to know people."

Steve Banks of Banks Sports Ventures and agent for Rodney Stuckey of the Detroit Pistons also joined the group providing insights as a working professional in the field. Sharing his thoughts on the Game Recognize Game Sports Marketing Academy Banks added "When I was a youngster I didn't have programs like this...being from the hood and able to come on the campus of Seattle University...so the access, I was impressed...you might see me in class next time you come!"

About Game Recognize Game Urban Sports Marketing Academy
Founded in 2008, the GAME RECOGNIZE GAME Urban Sports Management Academy is an experiential learning project for at-risk youth. The project introduces youth to the many business and career opportunities surrounding professional sports. Participants gain valuable skills including decision making, strategic planning, marketing and resource management by planning the annual Heal The Hood Outdoor Youth Basketball Tournament at Umoja Fest community basketball tournament and related activities. The curriculum uses professional sports as a lens to examine the attitudes and behaviors necessary for success on the court or playing field and in life. Guest speakers include professional and college athletes, sports agents, entertainment lawyers, sports journalists and more.  For more info contact Earl Parker at 206.683.9164 or via email at earlparker21@yahoo.com

About Seattle University Masters in Sports Administration and Leadership Program
Seattle University offers a master’s level sport management degree (Master’s degree in Sport Administration and Leadership - MSAL) and a joint JD/MSAL degree with the Law School. The MSAL program provides an education that is both immediately applicable to sport management careers and yet is still driven by advances in theory across a wide variety of disciplines. Started in 2006, the program has graduated 66 students so far and has 88 currently in the program, with each new class adding 30 more in a cohort. Graduates are employed by sport organizations such as the Seattle Seahawks, Seattle Storm, Seattle Sounders, Seattle Mariners, Major League Soccer, Seattle University, University of Washington, Stanford University, Everett Silvertips, Tacoma Rainiers, Arizona Western University, Willamette University, and Montana State University.

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Raise The Bar Fitness & TheRoughBred Boxing Seattle...Bartendaz 206 Mindup! #bartendaz #boxing #seattle #healthiswealth

Health Wealth and Knowledge of Self for Man Woman & Child!

UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center presents Raise The Bar Fitness & Theroughbred Boxing workout every Wednesday 3pm-5pm at Garfield Teen Life Center. Health is Wealth...Movement is Medicine! Bartendaz 206 Mind Up!

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It all comes down to the money...handle biz or the biz will handle you #mindyourownbiz #gamerecognizegame #wordapp

From Seattle to Wisconsin to North Africa...it is what it is...Who's eating and who's not...

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Washington Legislature is closing budget gap with student debt | <<--- Follow the money trail!

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Washington Legislature is closing budget gap with student debt

Guest columnist and college senior Logan Bahr argues that the state Legislature is closing its budget gap on the backs of students, who are having to take on more debt to pay higher tuition.

By Logan Bahr

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College is a taxing business.

Lectures, midterms, and finals must be complemented by volunteer work, internships, research and professional development. Students know that in order to be competitive we have to compete with the global economy. That's neither hyperbole nor lament; it's a reality we embrace!

We know with adequate skills and education the possibility to make a significant impact on the world is closer than ever before. So to cobble together enough money to pay tuition, we take out student loans, work when we're not studying, or even drop out to make money so that we can return and finish.

Unfortunately, at a time when a college education has never been more important, Olympia's understanding of an appropriate use of tuition has fundamentally changed. The money students pay for their education is no longer considered a fee paid to a school for instruction. Now students and their families are considered a "revenue source," a phrase normally reserved for taxes. Those are policymakers' words, not mine.

It should be widely known that tuition has risen 130 percent in the last 10 years. Today's higher tuition rates are the result of economic decline and revenue shortfalls. Cutting higher education seemed like an easy solution. It's a fairly large portion of the budget, it's not an entitlement, and it's constitutionally unprotected. Budget writers estimated a tuition increase and then took that amount — and more — out of universities' state funding.

What's more troubling is the new practice of distributing tuition dollars paid to university accounts for services once paid for out of the state General Fund. For example, the 2011 supplemental budget cuts the State Need Grant by $25 million. Those state funds went back into the General Fund to pay for a variety of things that have nothing to do with higher education. The Legislature then took an unprecedented step and replaced the funds with money from each college's tuition accounts.

It's a scary thought that tuition is simply another revenue source to be used for whatever state service is deemed needy; perhaps paying for a park or a prison.

State tuition practice violates an even more basic economic rule: solving a short-term shortfall with long-term loans. Slashing university budgets means state savings and higher tuition. Those savings are enabled, in large part, by students accruing more high-interest, long-term loans that will be paid off long after graduation. In other words, the state is indirectly closing its budget gap with student debt.

Students and families are now the majority funders of Washington's universities. But privatization of public higher education is not the answer to the current crisis.

The public higher education system should be a paramount concern and public governance must be maintained.

But, if the state is unwilling or unable to fund public higher education and, accordingly, if tuition must rise, then students should be assured that those funds will not be used as a state "revenue stream," but as a fee paid to a university for educational services rendered.

Students realize the challenges brought on by globalization and see the extraordinary opportunity to excel. We embrace this new landscape with cautious optimism.

What we cannot embrace is the philosophy that students are simply a revenue source used to pay for anything in the state budget.

Tacoma native Logan Bahr is a senior at Central Washington University and a student member of the CWU Board of Trustees.

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Young Geniuses Science & Engineering Club at UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center...Thursdays 4pm-5:30pm...Mentors needed! @upc206 #seattle #younggeniuses #wordapp

Young Geniuses Science & Engineering Club at UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center.  Thursdays 4pm - 5:30.  Mentors needed.

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Game Recognize Game Urban Sports Marketing Academy visits Seattle University Masters in Sports Administration and Leadership #seattle #sports #business #seattleu

Members of Game Recognize Game Urban Sports Marketing Academy with Dr. Galen Trail, Director of the Masters in Sports Administration and Leadership at Seattle University and NBA Agent Steve Banks of Banks Sports Ventures.

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Malcom X's daughter Ilyasah Shabazz visits UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center in #Seattle #growingupx #malcolmx #hiphop #upc206

Ilyasah Shabazz stopped by the UmojaFest P.E.A.C.E. Center to share a few moments while in Seattle for the screening of Prince Among Slaves.  She spoke with members of the UPC and Seattle Hip-Hop Summit Youth Council and stressed the importance of us becoming aware of our power and using it effectively to shape our communities and world.

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