Holiday Travel

Posted on November 24, 2013 by Cherie

No matter how you will be getting home for Thanksgiving this year, the most important part of traveling is safety. I know we all hear this every year but, it is still essential to practice safety as you make your way home this holiday season.

So some things to look out for if you are driving are:

1. Driving late at night/tired

2. Ice on the road or bad weather conditions

3. Vehicle maintenance issues- before you head out check your oil, brakes, coolant….etc.

If you happen to be flying home:

1. Print your boarding passes and arrive at the airport early!!

2. Do not leave your items unattended EVER

3. Don’t be too friendly with strangers….yes we have heard this a million times but it still applies!!!

If you are just going down the road or across town:

1. Be aware of driving conditions

2. Do not rush, its better to get there late and in one piece than not at all…..

And of course no matter how you travel use your common sense. The main idea is to have a wonderful holiday and come back safe!!! On that note, Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!!!

Veteran’s Day Events

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Cherie

As we all know Veteran’s day is also fast approaching so you might wonder, what the students of Embry Riddle Prescott do to honor our veterans……well….we do alot of different things. From the ROTC side of life we do a veteran’s day parade, the Honor Guard (my team!!!!) does a 24 hour Vigil at the veteran’s memorial hospital, and we go out to the veteran’s hospice to keep them company throughout the day.As for the rest of the campus, not much really goes on because our students go out into the community to get involved with the events in downtown Prescott.

No matter who you are and what you do, just take a moment this Veteran’s day to stop and thank a veteran for their service. They volunteered to do what only 1% of Americans do, and have made immense sacrifices to ensure the freedoms that we take for granted daily. They should ever be forgotten, and neither should or POW/MIA.

With that said, have a good, fun, and safe veteran’s day. I look forward to participating in Vigil and the Parade again this year so you might be able to see me there if you can find me (I’m short and hard to see because i blend in with all the Air Force Blues) !!!

Thanksgiving Break is on its way!!

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Cherie

In about two weeks Embry Riddle’s Prescott campus will be celebrating Thanksgiving Break, and boy are we ready for it!!! We have a mixture of students who go and home for Thanksgiving and those who do not. If you should choose not to go home during Thanksgiving do not fear, we are here for you!!!

Our Dining Hall staff actually cooks a full Thanksgiving dinner for students to enjoy and professors always invite students over to their homes to celebrate as well. Last year, I was unable to go home for Thanksgiving, so me and a bunch of friends went over to my MATLAB professor’s house for dinner and had a wonderful time 🙂

Luckily, I will be going home this year and even though the break will only be four days long (because of travel time) I am very excited. There is nothing like a good home cooked meal and enjoying old traditions. Although now that we are all old college students, we can begin to make our own!!

So no matter where you will be celebrating this year, have a good time, and don’t be lonely!! The Embry Riddle community is here to welcome you and Thanksgiving is one of our favorite times of year 🙂

P.S. LOOK FORWARD TO THE TURKEY COMA!!!

Test Off

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Cherie

This Saturday, right before Dining In (hyperlink to other blog!!!) the Honor Corps teams will be having our major exam called Test Off. To be a part of the teams and perform in the community all team members must pass test off. This will be my second time going through it, and I can’t really say that I’m excited, I honestly just want to get it over with.

Each team does Test Off differently, as a part of the Honor Guard Test Off includes knowledge, skills, marching, performances, and inspection. The knowledge portion is a written 1 hour exam over a packet of material that all the teams in Honor Corps must know verbatim. Our skills test covers skills with both flag and rifle movements, while our marching test is basically an FDE that all teams must pass. Each member of the Honor Guard must command one flag posting ceremony as part of the exam and pass with at least a 90. Then there is a 2 hour inspection during which you are drilled on procedures, knowledge, and critiqued on how you wear the ceremonial uniform.

This is a lot to prepare for however, we train 4 days of the week in order to achieve a high level of excellence. In the end it all pays off because we get to perform at the cardinals game in phoenix, in flag retirement ceremonies, funerals, etc. It is a real honor to be a part of a team that exists to pay respect to those who came before us. It is for this reason that I participate in Honor Guard and take the time out of my week to practice. So, on that note I will be off to Test Off this Saturday to reaffirm my status as a Guardsman and continue honoring those who came before. Wish our team luck!!

Warrior Week

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Cherie

This week in Air Force ROTC is what we like to call Warrior Week. It is basically the week that we all bring the competition to prove which flight is the best in the detachment. The week includes flight competitions in sports, knowledge, and fitness. As well as costume contests for Halloween and wrapping it all up with an event called Dining In.

So we are beginning the week by constructing costumes, and wearing them to lead lab on Wednesday. I am not sure what my flight has decided to wear quite yet but, the overall theme of Warrior Week is combat superheros so it should be pretty interesting. I’m thinking superman T shirt and BDU pants, that superhero-y right?

Alpha Flight, the coolest flight Ever!! We won the costume contest!

Then we will have a bunch of sports, hopefully not cow tongue Frisbee like last year….that was really gross but amusing to watch. When the sports are all over then we will do knowledge competitions, and here at Dining In who won Warrior week and earns the Warrior Flight of the semester award.

Dining In, like I said earlier is a military tradition where the detachment gets together and enjoys each others company. During this time we have toasts to those who came before us and those who can no longer join us in our traditions. After the toasts, there is something called a grog, it is really really really disgusting but, if you did something really dumb durign the semester you are called to the grog. If you don’t have a witty rebuttal then you must drink a cup of grog to the last drop. If anything is left when you flip the cup upside down you have to take another serving!!!!

When the grog is all done we will eat and listen to guest speakers talk about their military service. When we are all done it is time for some fun, we go outside and have an epic water balloon fight between flights. At Embry Riddle we have Dining in at the Flight line in a maintenance hanger so its pretty entertaining to see people running around in costumes in the airport parking lot with water balloons.

Internships

Posted on October 27, 2013 by Cherie

It is that time of year again and students all over the nation are applying for internships in their given field of study. So the question is how do you present the best application to potential employers? In all honesty it depends on what the employer is looking for and what field of study you are pursuing.

That is a broad range of topics covered in a single statement so how do you as a student make sense of it? Well……our career services department at Embry Riddle is here to help you!! They do all sorts of things from proofreading your resume, to helping you find an internship, answering questions during the application process, preparing for interviews, and so much more!!

At the Prescott campus we emphasis opportunities for students and it is for this reason that we created the career services department for you. Riddle is a great place to be as we can help you make the connections you need to succeed after graduation. So when you are thinking of colleges to attend just remember that Embry Riddle will help you through every step along the way. If you have any questions and would like more information please visit our career services page or call the admissions office.

Pumpkin Carving

Posted on October 27, 2013 by Cherie

Today some of our RA’s or Resident Assistants organized a pumpkin carving contest in preparation for Halloween. Some of the pumpkins were pretty awesome and others just plain gruesome. Overall though, the event was just another goofy even that we have here at Riddle to bring our students closer together around the holidays.

Our student body comes from all over the world, so when participating in events such as the pumpkin carving party it is entirely possible that you may meet someone who has never taken part in the tradition before. I met two such people today and it was really cool to be able to hear about their countries and make new friends all because of a simple tradition!

Events like this bring all of our students closer, and create a community on our campus that is unlike any other. We all love it here and we would like to invite you to come on over for a campus visit and experience it yourself. For a campus tour click here and learn more about what Embry Riddle Prescott has for you!!

Midterms Round Two

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Cherie

Here at Embry Riddle we are back at the books again!! It is about half way through the semester and time for another set of midterms. I have two this week in statics and differential equations but, it could be worse. Statics is not a difficult class as long as you can keep the concepts and set up of problems straight. DiffiQ as we “lazy” engineers like to call it, is not too bad either as long as you take the time to work through problems before the exams.

An Engineer’s White Board

Even though I know that these tests won’t be too hard I have been hitting the books in the last few days in order to be sure that I get those A’s!! It is really important to keep the good old GPA up for numerous reasons so please don’t slack off on your exams!! If you are a senior in high school, its even more important not to slack off, as doing so will cause habits to develop that will not be beneficial to you when you start college.

When in college slacking off isn’t good either as so much depends on your grades. Depending on the student it is possible that loans, scholarships, aid money, sports, ROTC, and enrollment status are affected by a single bad grade. Don’t let it happen to you!!! Study hard and it will all pay off in the end.

On that note, good luck on midterms everyone, and to those who are still in high school hang tight and keep up those grades, we will hopefully be seeing you here soon!!!!!!

Volunteer in the Community

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Cherie

Volunteering is a fun opportunity that can have amazing rewards in regards to personal growth, I strongly encourage you to go out there and get involved in the community wherever it is you choose to go to college. Some ways that Embry Riddle Prescott students get involved are: volunteering in local schools, tutoring, awareness walks, air shows, and cemetery cleanups.

Since I have been a student at Embry Riddle Prescott I have volunteered in vigil, cemetery cleanup, benefit auctions, air shows, and cemetery research. The one volunteering project that probably stands out the most, besides vigil is the cemetery work. Its kind of strange for a college student to be going out and cleaning up an old cemetery that know one even remembers, but it is something that i enjoy doing.

Embry Riddle’s AFROTC Honor Guard

I really like this project, as unlike my other volunteering experiences it is an ongoing effort to honor the veterans and other nameless individuals that are buried in a forgotten cemetery not too far from Prescott. The reason I have grown so attached to this work is that I actually had my first performance as a member of Honor Guard in that cemetery. Since then I have wanted to continue honoring those who lay at rest there, and my hope is to remind others to honor them too.

So what I mean when I say that volunteering can enhance your character is that you might find a passion in a very strange place, that overall will make you a better person. Ever since I began to volunteer in the cemetery I have achieved a greater respect for life and a curiosity about those who are unnamed. It has been a year since we started the project and every day I work a little on it, hoping that I will get closer to finding their names. There hasn’t been much luck but, within the next few years my goal is to inspire others to continue this work and to not allow our predecessors be forgotten.

So as you can see, volunteering has made a positive impact on not only myself but, on the community. Now people know about the cemetery and our work there, we are getting an even bigger following every year. It is my hope that others will find their own passions while volunteering and will pursue them in order to make not only themselves, but their community a better place.

Catia Project

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Cherie

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Its time for an update on my CATIA project!! It is nearly half way through the semester and our midway presentations are due this week, so I thought I’d let Y’all know how everything has been going.

So our assignment was to create a mars rover in the CATIA design program, this rover had to meet certain dimensional and weight constraints, and be able to collect samples from the surface of mars. All of these constraints were met through the use of the design process, at this point we have only completed the first three steps which are problem identification, ideation, and refinement.

The problems we found that our rover would encounter and have to be prepared for were damage on landing, dust interference with the solar panels, and small rocks getting caught in our drive system. To counter these problems we designed a stronger launch vehicle for the rover, provided a pneumatic operating system as a backup to the solar panels, and designed our drive system as shown below.

The wheels were actually my design, as the rover was divided into sub assemblies for each team member to complete. The spokes of the wheels will allow for rocks to work their way out of the system without causing any damage or impeding movement. Each wheel will also have its own motor so that all wheels have full rotation and power in order to complete our rover’s mission.

So that’s a small overview of what our team has been working on, if you want to know more please comment and I’ll share some fun facts about CATIA and rover design 🙂