An organization to help with communication and leadership skills is coming to Delaware Tech’s Owens Campus.

Toastmasters, a program to improve with public speaking, will hold meetings on campus twice a month. Any student or employee or faculty member can take part in the workshop.

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The bi-annual Communications Department’s Photography Exhibit will feature seven “Photography” students’ work on Tuesday, May 3, from 3:30 until 5:30 p.m. in the Jason Technology Center’s hallway between the bookstore and lobby.

Keith Mosher, “Photography” instructor of three years, studied photography has been in the photography business for nine years.

Mosher said, “The students have been working very hard to prepare for the display.”

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While everyone who drives has felt the pain at the pump, Delaware Tech nursing students have been especially hard-hit by the recent increases in gas prices.

Second year students who have to travel to clinical sites have been struggling with ways to cope with the higher fuel prices, according to Penny Hitesman, a nursing student from Dover.

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Many of Delaware Tech’s students are older, non-traditional students. Not many of them go on to become instructors.

Bill Benchoff started as a student at Delaware Tech in 2006, taking a few non-credit surveying courses after retiring from his career as a union millwright.

“He’s a craftsman in every sense of the word,” said Dr. Doug Hicks, Engineering Technology Department Chairperson. “He has taken on this CAD at a time when other people would be playing golf or going fishing,” Dr. Hicks said.

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During recent presentations by Delaware Tech volunteers, students at Cape Henlopen High School learned a few inconvenient truths about Internet social networking and file-sharing. Namely, that their actions online are not as private or secure as they would like to believe, and content they post to the Web never actually disappears.

The presentations were given on March 11, as part of the Responsible Computing outreach program, which seeks to educate teens on the realities and risks of Internet use in the 21st Century.

Responsible Computing is a joint initiative between the University of Delaware and Delaware Tech, with added assistance from the Department of Technology and Information and the Delaware Business Industry Education Alliance.

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Students who prefer creativity and self-expression over technical formats in their writing have something to look forward to next semester at the Owens Campus.

The English Department will offer a “Creative Writing” course to students for the Fall 2011 semester.

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aishwarya rai guru Unlike the focus on career-related writing found in other English classes at Delaware Tech, “Creative Writing” students will be limited only by their own imaginations.

“I know that through the years with my “Composition” classes, there have been a lot of artistic students who I think would like a little touch of creativity and expression in their academic life,” said English Instructor Jennifer Morley, who will teach the course.

According to Morley, the course was developed with these students in mind.

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Music coursed through the audience’s bodies as Dr. Rennie Harris’ dance group took the stage to execute a knockout dance performance in the Delaware Tech Theater on Friday, March 25.

The performance held at the Owens Campus was part of The Freeman Stage’s “Off Stage Series.” The Freeman Stage is part of the Joshua M. Freeman Foundation, which was founded in 2007 after the death of Joshua M. Freeman in 2006.

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Records were broken on March 9 when Delaware Tech students and faculty lined up, eager to donate blood to the Blood Bank of Delmarva.

Ninety-six participants came out and donated, beating the Owens Campuses’ prior record of 92 participants that was set several years ago, according to Science Instructor Linda Collins, adviser of the club.

The Owens Campus’s Medical Assistant Laboratory Technician Association (MALTA) club has been sponsoring the Blood Bank of Delmarva blood drive for 21 years.

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For smart phone users, it’s all about the applications.

There are apps to control the lights in your house, scan barcodes, identify songs, read the New York Times, or even find your lost phone.

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Carina Braemer, the president of the International Club, reached out to advisers of the Owens Campus clubs to help people in Japan who were struck by the 8.9-magnitude earthquake that set off a devastating tsunami. 

Japan is Braemer’s home country, and her family, her mother, younger sister, brother and grandparents still live there.

“Obviously there’s nothing I can do by myself, so I asked Mrs. Mitchell, my reading class instructor, if we can do something,” Braemer said.

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