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A new educational company, working with FolioFLY student members since November 2009, is offering a few lucky students the chance to work on a great market research project!
You will be responsible for distributing and collecting brief market surveys from fellow graduate and undergraduate students. Surveys will be used to gain feedback on a new way to make learning SAT and GRE vocab words a breeze. If you’re one of the lucky students selected, you just need to hand out and collect 300 completed student surveys to EARN $2.00 FOR EACH ONE!
Intended Grade Level: High School and College
Very appropriate …
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Ever think of being a teacher or wonder what it takes to develop a new training program? Get a glimpse of what it’s like, and help create the content for the design and development of an innovative new training product. Help an educational company create an online program to make learning SAT and GRE vocabulary words a breeze. They’re looking for ONE creative college student with the following skills:
- Strong vocabulary
- Superior SAT verbal score
- Literary background
- Comfortable working on tasks based around a list of advanced English vocabulary words
- Working …
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Open to ALL undergrad and grad students – take a jab at winning a $200k prize for your renewable energy venture!
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The MIT Clean Energy Prize (MIT CEP) organizing team today announced a $200,000 grand prize to be awarded in May 2010 for the most innovative clean energy solution. This third annual venture creation competition is open to graduate and undergraduate students across the United States.
Deadline for applications is February 25, 2010. Teams that make it into the semifinals will receive one-on-one mentoring from experienced industry leaders and entrepreneurs.
The …
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Growing up, I was notoriously bad in math. Simple, complex – it didn’t matter. I religiously sought help after class to the point of being obnoxious, and even attended Huntington Learning Center to nudge up my math grades..but nothing worked. What was holding me back from ‘getting it’? Why was all this math stuff even necessary?
It wasn’t until I took a post-college math course at William Paterson that my math mystery unravelled.
I learned about teaching “whole math” to elementary students. This meant teachers no longer would just teach math, but …
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Everyone knows dartboards have rings worth increasing points as you hit closer to the bullseye.
The Dartboard Method is a career tool where you write your ultimate goal in the bullseye, and each row leading up to the center shows the steps you should take to reach your goal. This is recommended for students who know what they want to do with their life – but haven’t figured out how to get from Point A (where they are now) to point B (where they want to be). Common sense, right?
You’d think …
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Gotta say, when I was young I didn’t get the whole ‘find work that makes you happy’ thing. I felt there was plenty time to figure out what to do with my life. Declaring a liberal arts major was the perfect way to put off focusing on anything specific. I was all over that one…
The light finally shined on me after graduation when I realized, ‘Hey…I just went through college without plans to do anything I’m remotely interested in doing.’ I don’t believe I visited career services even once during …
