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Wildcat Tech Expo: All the latest tech for students and fun prizes too!

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What’s that?

The Wildcat tech expo is a huge technology fair Weber State hosts every year. World renown companies come to show off their cool products. Reps from Adobe, Skull Candy, Apple, Dakine, Wacom, and iFrogz are all coming out to this year’s wildcat expo (and that’s just naming a few)!

Why is the Wildcat Tech Expo so Great?

  • The Expo has a variety of free current technology classes taught by professionals that are designed to empower attendees with technology trends of today.
  • You can enter the vendor showcase raffle worth hundreds of dollars in prizes!
  • A student who attended last years expo said, “The Wildcat Tech Expo is awesome! You can get all of your computer stuff and printers for really cheap prices, plus vendors and there giving you free products and doing all sorts of contests and it’s way cool. I even got a free ipod case!”

Cool classes…

Blogging Best Practices

Learn how to create a business blog, a family blog, or make your very own diary blog (note-online diaries are not confidential ; ). Find out how to promote your blog, connect with your community, get your blog sponsored, and embrace the world of bloggers.

Wed. Sept. 28

9:30-10:20 a.m.

Student Union 404A

Securing Your Home Network (Firewalls and Security)

Don’t let creeper identity thieves use your internet and steal your personal information by leaving the door wide open. Find out what is required to secure a PC or group of PCs on your home network.

Wed. Sept. 28

10:30-11:20 a.m.

Student Union 312

Digital Photo Editing for Beginners

So you’re not a professional photographer, but you like taking photos and wish you knew how to edit them. Well then this class is for you! Come learn simple and free options for editing your photos.

Wed. Sept. 28

2:30-3:20 p.m.

Student Union 321

Register Today

To register, visit Wildcat Tech Expo. Check out the available classes and register for each individual class you would like to attend.

Weber State’s Wildcat Tech Expo 2011

September 28- 29

Weber State University
3848 Harrison Blvd.

Student Union Building

Check out this video for cool pics from last year’s expo

Coming to WSU: Parenting with love and logic

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Love and Logic comes to Weber State

If you’re looking for some great advice on how to parent, you can’t go wrong with the team over at Love and Logic. They focus on nurturing and age-appropriate strategies to raise responsible, well-adjusted kids.

One of the founders, Jim Fay, is the featured keynote speaker at the Families Alive Conference. His opening address, “How to Discipline Kids without Losing Their Love and Respect,” is free to the public. Here are the details:

Thursday, October 13

7:30 PM

Austad Auditorium, Browning Center

Weber State University

Find out More

Check out some of Jim Fay’s free articles.

To register for the conference, or for more details visit Families Alive: Strategies for Resilient and Successful Families.


Little Known Resources: Free Workshops

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Got Skills?

Do you have a friend who is just so good at everything?  I know you do. We all do.  This is the amazing person that can be baking the perfect crème brule one minute and go right to changing the oil in the family car.  How do they DO it? Well, yet again, Weber State is here to help and this time your knight in shining armor is coming from the WSU West Center and Davis Campus.

Free Workshops to the Rescue

The West Center and Davis Campus offer workshops that are absolutely jam packed with valuable information.  Some of them pertain to skills you can use to get back in to school and some are things you can use in your everyday life.  For example, this summer they are offering classes on:

  • Financial planning.
  • Communication strategies.
  • Summer time family fun ideas.
  • Methods of memorizing.

Did I mention that they are totally and absolutely free?

Online Workshops

Don’t have the time to stop by the workshops?  Well tons of awesome workshops from photography to weight-loss to child-rearing skills are available online.  These workshops are a little more in-depth and run $95 each.  They generally last for about 6 weeks each and do not count for college credit.  What better way to get yourself into the college going mode?  Not to mention you can cultivate some great skills along the way.

Interested?

Check out this website for the free workshops and this one for the online workshops.

“What part of ‘Keep away from children’ did you not understand?”

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Parenting is hard. Kids these days don’t know anything, even that they’re kids. To help take the edge off, the WSU Women’s Center is offering a free, 8-week workshop series.

Parenting with Love and Logic
Tuesdays, Feb. 8 through Mar. 29, 2011
5:30 to 7:00 p.m.
Shepherd Union Building, Room 305

The workshops are free and open to the public. Attendees do not need to attend every session. To sign up, contact their office at 801-626-6090.

In the mean time, check out Stuff My Kids Ruined. It’s full of kids who could have used more logic.