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Thanks to University of Florida professor Christopher Niezrecki, students can ride safer at night. The reason for such glowing praise? A bike that, well, glows! One big factor to cutting down on nighttime cycling fatalities is improving visibility to motorists. Niezrecki says one night he was playing around with a nightlight and had an illuminating thought. "I said, 'Hey, why don't we apply this to a bicycle?'" he says. The result of this bright idea is GlowBike, a bicycle that has illuminated panels on the frame and rims powered by a nine-volt battery. A three-man team, Niezrecki and undergraduates Matthew Young and Gregory Yoder, put the prototype together for around $1,500, but Niezrecki has high hopes of being able to retro-fit bicycles with the safety features for around $75. SRR
Contact Christopher Niezrecki at niezreck@ufl.edu.
Best Mural
What’s the best way to show
your school’s diversity? At Schiller International University,
it’s through art. Senior Christopher Glenn spent the entire summer
laboring over a gigantic mural that illustrates the university’s
multi-cultural student body. The mural, located on the outside wall of
the university’s library, stands 8 feet high and stretches 70 feet.
Taking about 11 days to complete, it shows the students at Schiller in multiple colors. Glenn says the different colors represent the many cultural and ethnic backgrounds of the students. “The student body at Schiller is a microcosm of the world,” Glenn says. “We’re all a mix of different cultural representatives coming from multitudinous political, economic, social, educational and, of course, cultural backgrounds.”
Out of 215 students, 34 are from the USA and the remaining 181 are from various different countries around the world. “The Schiller campus is like a miniature United Nations, where you get to truly interact with fellow students from Bermuda, China, Lithuania, Morocco, Switzerland, and Venezuela—just to name a few,” Assistant to Vice President for Academic Affairs Teresa Durickas says. “All of this occurs on a daily basis, where students from all over the world learn together, in an atmosphere of incredible cultural diversity.” SS
Contact Teresa Durickas at Teresa_durickas@schiller.edu.
Best Game Show
The Iron Chef may be facing some competition from a
show produced and taped at
Lynn
University .
Last spring, Lynn communications students helped produce and edit the pilot
for Culinary Decisions, a quiz show that pits chef against chef in a
game of culinary wits. Students hope the Food Network or Oxygen Media will
pick up the show so they can continue production. Students also are editing
the pilot for Food Fight, another food-related game show. “Students
who graduate with [broadcast] material on their resume reels have a definite
leg up on students who don't,” says Jim Brosemer, project leader and Lynn’s
director of media services. MCB
Contact Jim Brosemer at jbrosemer@lynn.edu.
Most Important Meal of the
Day
Hungry
for breakfast? How about 2,000 eggs, 4,000 slices of bacon, and a side of
toast? Sounds like it’s just enough to fill a few hungry stomachs, except
when you’re trying to feed nearly 1,000 people. Florida A&M University
students put together the “Longest Breakfast Table in Florida” to
increase homeless awareness.
“It was amazing how it spread,” says Kenjay Williams, a Student Government Association senator. “We didn’t expect it to grow as quickly as it did. We had people from a few neighboring counties come and get some food.” The SGA, along with Golden Key, Ms. FAMU, and the Presidential Ambassadors cooked up the breakfast idea.
Sponsored by everyone short of Emeril, food and entertainment came from everywhere, including Tropicana, General Mills, Gustafson’s Dairy, and Sam’s Club. To go along with the food were performances by the Tallahassee Boys Choir, a few local gospel singers, speakers from the college, and a comedian. “We even had one of the homeless guys get up on stage,” Williams says. “He stopped the program so that he could make sure that someone said ‘thank you’ to us for putting the breakfast together. It was nice to see how big a difference we made to these people.” RG
Contact Williams at amwilliams527@hotmail.com or at (850) 513-1650.
Best Yearbook
Vision 2001,
Florida
International University' s
recently-resurrected yearbook, won so many awards that Editor Jose Otero had
to send them to Florida Leader in two packages. But it's no
wonder—Otero and his staff produced a fine yearbook at G. Holmes Braddock
Senior High School as well. "The people who graduated with me all were on my
staff, and the ones that were a year behind us came and worked with us for
their volunteer hours for high school," Otero says.
After Vision lay dormant for 11 years, the school felt it was time to come back and document the traditions they all enjoy. The new yearbook staff took five national awards, including the Columbia Scholastic Press Association award, American Scholastic Press Association Award, and Jostens National Yearbook Sample award. Where the 2000 yearbook was very collegiate and conservative, Otero and his long-term editorial team of Vanessa Valencia, Sharon Caldera, and Isabel Garces decided to have more fun with the second edition in 2001. "We wanted to show behind-the-scenes as much as the events themselves," Otero says. The resulting book, "From A Different Angle," shows man-on-the-street interviews and individual bios of seniors in an elegant, brilliantly-colored format. SRR
Contact Otero at fiuotero@aol.com.
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