The Charles Wilcox Papers belong to the Keene, New Hampshire resident who was a Union soldier during the Civil War and was captured and imprisoned in Confederate internment camps as well as prisons from 1864-1865. These papers include Wilcox’s diary, correspondence, and official documents. The papers are part of the archival holdings of the Historical Society of Cheshire County in Keene, New Hampshire, and were included as part of the NH Citizens Archivists' Initiative.
Members of this panel will discuss the connection between the attitudes and actions of the greater community and the classroom. This panel draws out the connection to show the direct impact that hate groups have on the classroom and the school environment. This presentation combines news stories, personal experience, and research conducted by the Southern Poverty Law Center to understand how hate groups affect the school environment. Other topics for this panel include the role of the teacher in combating the influence of hate groups within their classroom and possible options for doing so. Following presentation of this material the panel will open a dialogue with attendees about the role of the community in combating hate groups and its impact on our classrooms. This presentation is in conjunction with the earlier panel titled Hate Groups Within Society to establish the formation and prevalence of these groups in society.
Food insecurity is the state of being without access to affordable, nutritious food. According to the USDA there are reports of multiple indications of disrupted eating patterns and reduced food intake among low income communities. Keene Housing, a low-income housing community aims to help people and address inequities by providing them with a place to live and other basic human needs such as nutritious foods. Due to financial burdens many residents are subjected to low quality foods.This study utilized: a thirteen question written survey on food insecurity and healthy eating, property assessments of each site owned by Keene Housing, and a data analysis. The results of the study provided Keene Housing with feedback, such as the amount of residents willing to participate in food programs, the land that is currently available to provide residents with their own community gardens, and the overall food based needs of each housing site. This information combined with other reports will ultimately provide Keene Housing with an assessment to further their construction of various food outreach programs.
Despite physical activity being an essential part in one's general health and well-being, many college students are not regularly physically active. However, students in the Human Performance and Movement Sciences Department (HPMS) are perceived to be motivated and partake in regular physical activity. In addition, HPMS students are provided with skills and knowledge about healthy lifestyles that may influence their decisions about engaging in regular physical activity. Transtheoretical Model (TTM) is a behavioral change theory that has been used to assess motivational readiness for physical activity. This project aims to determine if group differences exist across three years within and between undergraduate college students' stage of behavior change for regular physical activity by major (Physical Education Teacher Certification, Exercise Science, and Athletic Training) within the HPMS majors. Using self-reports, repeated-measures 3 x 4 ANOVA analysis will reveal if longitudinal group differences exist within and between the HPMS majors.
Health Development Initiative: Rwanda is a non-profit organization based in Kigali, whose mission is to improve the accessibility and standard of healthcare for all those in the country. The goal of the project was to design a health and wellness center to accommodate a walk-in clinic, fifty beds for inpatients, an operating ward, a pharmacy, a maternity ward, classrooms for nutrition and sex education, a kitchen, and offices. The inspiration for my design are the woven baskets that are widely used in Rwanda. The circular design of the proposed health and wellness center creates a welcoming environment with a centralized courtyard and radial circulation. Local materials would also be used and sustainability would be achieved with natural ventilation and solar panels. The project will be presented with posters and accompanied by a physical model.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the predictability of the Functional Movement Screen (FMS) for injury. FMS is a series of 7 tests used to identify limitations or asymmetries of the body. Previous research has shown mixed results with most studies investigating basketball or football participants at the collegiate level, but consistent in the literature is a lower FMS score is indicative of future injury. Using Division III Men's and Women's Lacrosse teams at Keene State College, FMS scores will be collected to determine if there is a significant relationship between FMS and lower extremity injury. We hypothesize that athletes with lower scores have a significantly increased incidence of injury compared to those who have a higher score. Using the results of the study, athletic preseason FMS screenings may prove to be a useful tool to identify at risk athletes.
The purpose of this project is to share an in-class assignment designed for K-12 Physical Education (PE) evaluation program that is aligned with Five National Standards developed by the Society of Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE) America. Pre-service teachers in educator preparation programs, such as PE Teacher Certification, are taught proper principles in curriculum planning, designing units, lessons, and proper assessment and tracking of student progress across grades. Proper assessment provides others invested in the education process with a framework for understanding PE student learning outcomes. This form of assessment helps reduce any misconceptions people (e.g., administrators, board of education/policy makers, parents, school teachers) may have about PE and its value in schools by assessing the student learning outcomes. This project includes assessment tools for each national standard with an accompanied plan of action that is unit and grade level specific, with a clear scoring method, and evaluation scheme.
A combination of local ventilation (such as fume hoods) and general ventilation (which is the fresh air supplied to the room as a whole) is used to keep workers safe while they work with hazardous airborne chemicals. A key issue in designing these ventilation systems is how to optimize the balance between the local exhaust and general ventilation for a room. One method of assessing the balance of the ventilation in a room uses carbon dioxide (CO2) as a tracer gas (Stuart, et al, 2014).This poster will use three case studies from the Keene State College campus, to examine the strengths and limitations of using this CO2 test method. By reviewing CO2 assessments that have been completed in a science laboratory, paint booth, and printmaking shop, this poster will identify the architectural parameters that impact the effectiveness of this CO2 tracer test.
Despite physical activity being an essential part in one's general health and well-being, many college students are not regularly physically active. However, students in the Human Performance and Movement Sciences Department (HPMS) are perceived to be motivated and partake in regular physical activity. In addition, HPMS students are provided with skills and knowledge about healthy lifestyles that may influence their decisions about engaging in regular physical activity. Transtheoretical Model (TTM) is a behavioral change theory that has been used to assess motivational readiness for physical activity. This project aims to determine if group differences exist across three years within and between undergraduate college students' stage of behavior change for regular physical activity by major (Physical Education Teacher Certification, Exercise Science, and Athletic Training) within the HPMS majors. Using self-reports, repeated-measures 3 x 4 ANOVA analysis will reveal if longitudinal group differences exist within and between the HPMS majors.
This project is an architectural design work for a proposed Primary School in Bucundura Uganda. The project brings awareness of the education issues for young children in Central Africa.The finished design was created by three KSC students, Connor Bell, who had the privilege to visit Bucundura in January 2016, Erin Conti, and Brad Donovan. It consists of six classrooms, an administrative building, and a kitchen for serving hot meals during school days. A spacious playground and learning garden features were the center focus of this design.After a semester of sketching, model making, meetings with the client, and proposals to an architecture firm to oversee the future of the design, the project was complete. With the help of an organization called African Educate in the Monadnock Region a plot of land was purchased for hopes to construct this school by means of private donors in the near future.
The purpose of this randomized control trial is to determine the effects of Hatha yoga classes and meditation on the stress levels and sleep quality of college students over a four-week duration. Vanessa Villate 2015 reported participants feeling more refreshed upon waking, feeling less distressed, and having a greater capacity to cope with daily life after participating in yoga and breathing techniques. Participants 18-22 years of age with no prior experience that report poor sleep quality and high stress levels on sleep and stress surveys will be randomized into two groups. The test group will undergo one-hour yoga classes twice a week, then retake the sleep and stress surveys. After the initial four weeks, the wait listed control group will then undergo the same steps. The hypothesis is that within as little as four weeks of participating in yoga, participants will see a significant improvement in sleep quality and stress.
