Nevada All Stars

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Student Ambassadors

• A Little Walking

A Little Talking
A Whole Lot of Fun
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Student Orientation Staff

• Help Others

and
Help Yourself
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Student Ambassadors
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Nevada All Stars
Student Ambassadors

• Fall Previews and College Fairs
• Campus Tours
• Community Projects

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Student Ambassadors

• Fall Previews and College Fairs
• Held across Nevada and California Good Neighbor
  counties
• Ambassadors provide one on one contact
• Student and parent panels
• High school visits
• Washoe and Clark County college fairs
• Represent Nevada from the student perspective

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Student Ambassadors

• Campus Tours
• Provide campus tours 6 days a week at various
  times totaling 24 tours a week
• Ambassadors offer more tours per week than paid
  guides at other universities
• Wolf Packed Fridays
• Special events on campus throughout the year from
  elementary age to 50 year alumni

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Student Ambassadors

• Reading Challenge
• Exposes students to college fun of education at
  an early age
• Local elementary school students challenged to
  read at kick off assembly
• Ambassadors visit the school to read
• Winners brought to the University for a day of
  fun and to watch a Wolf Pack football game

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Student Ambassadors

• Pen Pals
• At risk school targeted for pen pal exchange
• Students and Ambassadors write letters back and
  forth for a month
• Ambassadors go to the school and do activities
  with students
• Students brought on campus to meet their
  Ambassador pen pals for lunch

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Student Ambassadors

• Clothing Drive
• Twice a year
• November
• End of spring semester
• Given to a local charity

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Student Ambassadors

• Flashlight Tours
• A new program for 2002
• Campus ghost tours given at night
• Targeted to elementary and Nevada Students
• Cost is a can of food or 1 for local food bank
• Candy given out as part of a safe street
  environment

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Student Ambassadors

• Other Community Services
• Committee dedicated to developing service
  projects
• Math challenge
• Toy drive for the holidays
• Soup kitchen volunteers
• Valentine's Day cards for veterans and service
  personnel

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Student Orientation Staff
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Nevada All Stars
Student Orientation Staff

• New Student Orientations
• Wolf Pack Prep
• Community Projects

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Student Orientation Staff

• New Student Orientation
• Fall orientation
• Traditional
• Non-traditional
• Spring orientation
• Introduction to the college experience
• Health, Safety Right-to-know information

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Student Orientation Staff

• New Student Orientation (Cont)
• Team building
• Student Panels
• Gives student perspective on important issues
  affecting new students
• First weekend programming

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Student Orientation Staff

• Wolf Pack Prep
• Registration and advisement for incoming students
• Held in Reno, Las Vegas, and Elko (2003)
• Chance for incoming students to ask questions of
  current students

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Student Orientation Staff

• Phone Calling Project
• 3 months after New Student Orientation
• Connects with new Freshmen asking
• How was orientation?
• Life at Nevada?
• Any improvements?

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Student Orientation Staff

• Places to Go
• Decorating suitcases for children who are moving
  from a shelter or foster home
• Suitcase will have a book included

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Student Orientation Staff

• Holiday Caroling
• New program for 2002
• Caroling during the winter break
• Hospitals
• Nursing and retirement homes

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Student Orientation Staff

• Other Community Services
• Can food drive for shelters
• Toys for Tots
• Bachelor/Bachelorette Auction
• Raise money for the Evelyn Mount Foundation for
  2003

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• Early Outreach
• SBC Nevada Bell Mentors
• Mentoring students from middle school to college
• On campus activities
• Gear Up
• Federal program
• Encouraging students from at risk schools to go
  to college

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• Training
• Two mandatory retreats
• Summer
• Winter
• Extensive training to serve the needs of both
  prospective and new students

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• Fund Raising
• Both groups unpaid student volunteers
• Fund raising throughout the year for socials and
  gifts
• Football concessions
• T-shirt sales
• Raffles
• Various food sales

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Two Student Groups

• One University