{"id":204,"date":"2013-04-19T17:09:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T17:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/?p=204"},"modified":"2013-04-19T17:09:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T17:09:03","slug":"seneca-epic-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uca.edu\/residential\/2013\/04\/19\/seneca-epic-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Seneca – EPIC (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"EPIC\"<\/a>This time I am going to talk about how the time is spent for a student in EPIC. Being in EPIC we have worked on some major community as well as school enhancement projects.<\/p>\n

I can honestly tell you that during presentations of our projects you can tell the amount of hours that went into the creation of these projects. Even with school being a top priority, a lot of time and energy is spent to make these ideas come alive.<\/p>\n

The dedication and teamwork is by far the best I have ever seen in my college career thus far. Looking to be a part of a winning team? EPIC is the way to go.<\/p>\n

As an EPIC student you are allowed to \u201cthink wrong\u201d or think outside the box in order to make a difference the may impact others in a way you may have never imagined.<\/p>\n

My favorite project thus far has been our recruitment\/retention project last semester. We had eight teams total. Four were given recruitment and asked to come up with ways to improve it and 4 were given retention. My team got retention. Needless to say I was a little tumped at first on how I would go about it. But after a few weekends of research and team meetings we came up with an idea.<\/p>\n

From that time on our goal was to improve and see how we could adapt it this school as well as make it seem like a plausible solution. After we had come up with a possible way to implement it we did 2 surveys of random students, the first survey was kind of a get to know\u00a0 our population and the second survey to the same students was a simple yes or no question of if our idea would indeed help with retention. Off the top of my head I can\u2019t remember the specific percentages but I know that the majority of the students said yes.<\/p>\n

So we put together a PowerPoint and prepared for our presentation. My belief level in our idea was through the roof now not only because I had experienced something similar to it before but the more research I did the more I saw the possibility of it acttually working.<\/p>\n

We gave the presentation and got 1st<\/sup> place in the first round which allowed us to present our idea to the president of the university. I tell you what an honor.<\/p>\n

We got third place in the last round but still left with a prize. That is just one prime example of the hard work that goes into making this and all the other projects work.\u00a0 I am excited about the other projects coming up in the near future.\u00a0 The definition of EPIC is success\u2026 in EPIC proportions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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