STS is currently volunteering at the United Service Organization (USO) with the United Through Reading (UTR) program. The UTR is a program which helps military families stay connected with video recorded readings. The process of a UTR recording is as follows: The soldier arrives at the USO and STS students registers them with their information. Then, the soldier chooses from a variety of books provided by UTR from which he/she will be reading. The books range from infant to teenage age groups. STS students escort them to the room in which the recording will take place and explain to him/her that they will have up to 30 minutes and that they will be left alone, so they can have their privacy. When the soldier finishes, the STS student will then finalize the DVD, prepare the package which will included the DVD, the book the soldier read, and some information about the UTR program. Finally, the package is mailed to the solider' s family by the USO.
The Happiness Senior Center
In an ongoing effort, STS is training members of Happiness Senior Center on basic computer skills. The computers were donated from and delivered by EPCC to the senior center. STS has been teaching Ted Garcia, Yolanda Guerrero, and other Happiness members how to operate the computer; from how to power the computers on and off to working with applications, such as OpenOffice. Other trainings include file management and working with documents (editing, saving, and printing). STS conducts these training twice a week, usually in the mornings.
GEAR-UP
On June 18-20, STS was involved in a summer camp for middle school students called GEAR-UP. At this GEAR-UP summer camp, STS explained and demonstrated to the students how to use Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Publisher to create presentations.
Students were asked created a PowerPoint about their interests and presented to the class their work Along with the PowerPoint students created another presentation about their interests on Publisher and presented it along with their PowerPoint. At this time summer camp, the middle school students created a PowerPoint about their interests and presented to the class their work. Along with the PowerPoint students created another presentation about their interests on Publisher and presented it along with their PowerPoint.
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