Category Archives: Education

Mara Aurora’s Newly Released Faucet

New York, NY, April 09, 2024 — “Faucet: For We All Have the Power to Glow”: a delightful tale of friendship, bravery, and overcoming our fears. “Faucet: For We All Have the Power to Glow” is the creation of published author, Mara Aurora, who resides in Southern California with her husband, two teenage boys, and two dogs. She received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Azusa Pacific University

Mara Aurora shares, “The story is about the power of a child that he or she has not even experienced yet. This resilient little boy has to overcome novel situations, including fear of the unknown. As he falls into a deep sleep, he is encountered by a kind, unexpected character who looks completely unlike anyone he knows, but this character, Faucet, needs to go on an adventure to find his best friend desperately. With the power of this little boy, he will be able to accomplish his mission. But without the little boy, nothing would ever be able to take flight. The little boy, in return, gains a friend and a new confidence within himself that he cannot wait for others to see. In the end, he knows he can call on his friend if he would ever like to join again. It creates a sense of power in this little boy to glow, shine, and stand out above others because that is his destiny as others can relate to their destiny on their journey no matter their age.”

Paving the Way for a New Generation of Tech Professionals

Saint Petersburg, FL, April 09, 2024 — The technology industry is rapidly growing, offering endless opportunities for individuals to build successful careers. However, many people are held back from pursuing these opportunities due to their background. Lack of resources and support often prevents individuals from taking advantage of workforce development opportunities. CodeBoxx is here to change that.

Empowering Individuals from All Backgrounds

CodeBoxx Academy provides individuals with the skills and knowledge needed to thrive in the tech industry. The academy’s unique approach to education focuses on hands-on learning and real-world projects, making it accessible to individuals from all backgrounds. Through their intensive 16-week program, students learn about computer programming, website creation, and project management, preparing them for in-demand jobs in the tech industry.

Success Stories: Overcoming Challenges

One success story from CodeBoxx Academy is Brian Peret. When Brian was released from prison, he had no job or permanent housing. Despite having a graduate degree, Brian’s career options were severely limited due to his criminal record. He was gifted a laptop and an internship, leading to a full-time position at a tech startup in St. Pete. Brian discovered that his skills were more important than his past challenges.

The team at CodeBoxx saw Brian’s potential and brought him on as a coach. His technical proficiency, business acumen, and strong work ethic have facilitated his rise from coach to Program Director. As Director of CodeBoxx Academy, Brian is nurturing the development of the next generation of tech professionals.

Another success story in progress is Noah. Noah spent much of his youth within the juvenile welfare system and is a graduate of Sailfuture Academy. Leveraging support from CareerSource Pinellas and The CodeBoxx Foundation, Noah has been able to attend CodeBoxx Academy with no out-of-pocket expenses. He is flourishing within Codeboxx’s project-based curriculum and is on pace to be a CodeBoxx intern upon graduation.

Addressing the Diversity Gap in Tech

CodeBoxx Academy is committed to addressing the lack of diversity in the tech industry by providing equal opportunities for all individuals to succeed. They offer financial aid and scholarships to those in need, as well as mentorship and career support to help students land their dream jobs. With a 90% job placement rate, CodeBoxx Academy is significantly impacting the tech industry and changing lives along the way.

Redefining Tech Education

“In today’s fast-paced and constantly changing tech world, it’s not enough to just have technical skills. We need to teach our students the mindset and philosophies that will allow them to adapt and thrive in any tech environment,” says Brian Peret, CodeBoxx’s Academy Director.

CodeBoxx’s innovative approach to tech education has already seen success, with graduates securing jobs at top tech companies around the Tampa Bay community. With a mission to redefine technology as an essential skill and bridge the gap in tech education, CodeBoxx is paving the way for a new generation of tech professionals.

Alan L. Bates’s New Book You Were Not Invited, So Why Did You Come

Norwalk, CA, April 09, 2024 — Alan L. Bates, who was born and raised in Washington State, has completed his new book, “You Were Not Invited, So Why Did You Come?”: a suspenseful tale that explores complex family dynamics.

Author Alan L. Bates grew up on a farm, loves animals, makes leaded stained glass, loves the outdoors and wilderness, and ended up in the big metropolis of Los Angeles.

Bates writes, “Brian is a little slow on following Stew and lets out a crazy scream and tries to tackle Jeff. ‘Okay,’ says Jeff and delivers a right cross that sends Brian to the deck. “One more for the road,” he says and grabs Brian by the shirt and short jabs him in the chops, then he cuffs him in the back of the head. ‘You like that?’”

Published by Page Publishing, Alan L. Bates’s intriguing tale allows readers to glimpse the innerworkings of this family.

Readers who wish to experience this captivating work can purchase “You Were Not Invited, So Why Did You Come?” at bookstores everywhere, or online at the Apple iTunes Store, Amazon, Google Play, or Barnes and Noble.

Author RM Suhuncheck’s New Book Till the Bitter End

New York, NY, April 09, 2024 –RM Suhuncheck completed his new book, “Till the Bitter End”: an eye-opening work that shares the twists and turns of the author’s career. Working for twelve principals, in spans that ranged from two months to seven and a half years, enabled him to develop his own set of strategies, learn what ideas worked, and accumulate enough stories that made him angry, made him laugh, and motivated him to write his story.

Author RM Suhuncheck writes, “My top priority was to be actively involved in learning about the daily operation of the building and, very importantly, to learn about the teachers. Every day, I attempted, and quite often succeeded, in visiting every classroom two or three times a day. These informal observations, where I would observe a lesson for fifteen to twenty minutes, exposed me to various teaching strategies and techniques. I was learning a lot.”

Published by Newman Springs Publishing, RM Suhuncheck’s candid work offers insight into the experience of being an assistant principal for a long period of time.

Readers who wish to experience this reflective work can purchase “Till the Bitter End” at bookstores everywhere, or online at the Apple iBooks Store, Amazon, or Barnes and Noble.

Vicki Bisbee’s New Book Assiniboine Nakoda Book of Basic Words

Wolf Point, MT, April 08, 2024 -Fulton Books author Vicki Bisbee, a retired school counselor, has completed her most recent book, “Assiniboine (Nakoda): Book of Basic Words”: an educational guide meant for readers of all ages to help them learn basic words and pronunciations of the Assiniboine language.

Born and raised on the Fort Peck, Indian reservation, author Vicki Bisbee attended MSU-Northern, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in business education and a master’s degree in education – guidance and counseling. Both of Vicki’s parents attended boarding schools and her mother is Chippewa from the Turtle Mountain Reservation in ND and her dad is Assiniboine. There was no Native American culture taught in school but much of that had changed when Vicki returned to the reservation in 1992. In 1996, Vicki enrolled in Native American Studies at Fort Peck Community College and began her journey by participating in her first Medicine Lodge in 1997, which finished in June 2000.

“Great efforts are being made to revitalize the Assiniboine language on the Fort Peck Reservation and areas where Assiniboins reside,” writes Vicki. “The Fort Peck Community College on the Reservation has been instrumental in teaching the Assiniboine culture and rich language. This book is a brief guide of basic words and pronunciation.”

Author D.D. Darwin’s New Book Life’s Little Mysteries

New York, NY, April 08, 2024 –D.D. Darwin, who has traveled much of the world working for many of the leading companies in the aerospace and defense industry from which he retired as a vice president of such a firm, has completed his new book, “Life’s Little Mysteries”: a captivating of unique and intriguing short stories that feature a variety of characters and themes.

Author D.D. Darwin proudly received his honorable discharge from the US Marine Corps. And today continues to write of his adventures.

Darwin writes, “How is it you can know a person (my dad) your entire life yet seldom take the time to see what he looks like? On a scale of one to ten, he would score a four or five in appearance. His stubby beard shone salt and peppery. While the hair atop his head gave evidence of thinning, this emphasized his receding hairline. Pop’s facial structure was too thin to be oval yet not thin enough to be a hatchet face. His nose took a slight jog to the right from some mishap in the 1930s while he served in the CCC projects. Still, for all that, the single most striking feature was his sparkling pale-blue eyes that were accented by his chestnut-brown skin. One more thing, somewhere, somehow from the time we had left his home several hours before, a metaphysical change had taken place. Years appeared to drop from his appearance. No longer was he an old man but a man filled with vitality, boundless strength, and as I was to find out, incredible endurance.”

Annemarie Estor Wins the 2024 Frederick Turner Prize for Poetry

Dallas, TX, April 08, 2024 — Mundus Artium Press announces that the selection committee has unanimously selected the Flemish Poet Annemarie Estor as the 2024 Frederick Turner Prize for Poetry.

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At a time when poetry is shrinking in its range, in its form, and its ambition, Annemarie Estor stands out. Wildly inventive, her huge vocabulary spans every genre and field of discourse, her gentle irony shines a light into every civilizational secret, and her passionate love of life, even in our doubtful times, makes us feel that we are not at the end of things but at the beginning. Long poems like No Man’s Land Night and The Armpits of the Beast explore the mysterious underworld landscapes of our current civilization and the transformative realm of sexual desire, crossing boundaries that are cultural, moral, philosophical and political, and never entirely “correct.”

Estor is that rare phenomenon, the learned poet who is also spontaneous, comic, and passionate. Her curiosity extends across cultures and across the sciences. Her beautiful and sardonic Flemish translates into a new tone in English, one that is both self-assured and hopelessly self-revealing. Winner of two of the most important Flemish prizes, the Herman de Coninck Prize and the Jan Campert Prize, among many other honors, her work deserves to be internationally known.

Mundus Artium’s Frederick Turner Prize for 2024 thus goes to Annemarie Estor. They hope that the prize will spur more translations of her work in other languages.

The Frederick Turner Prize committee does not confine itself in its search for excellence to free verse poetry, but seeks to recognize the many shaped, sung, and crafted forms of poetry that have arisen independently in human cultures all over the world. Its chief criterion is beauty, and it reflects its namesake’s interest in a philosophy of esthetics that includes the evolution of the cosmos. The prize includes a personalized medal, a diploma, and an award of $1,000.

Richard Harteis’s Latest Collection of Poetry

New London, CT, April 08, 2024 –If a crumb falls from a table, it falls to the earth because of gravity. In space, there is no gravity, and a crumb becomes a kind of dangerous missile, a drop of water, or a tear, a fountainhead. Gravity is a function of time the poet tells us; in space there is no time.

So it is with these “crumbs,” written after too much sativa, mindful observations of the particulars of life, hence the title of Harteis’s new book, “CRUMBS.”

In his book letters to a young poet, Rilke says that everything will become easier, “if you trust in Nature, and what is simple in Nature in the small things that hardly anyone sees, and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable, if you have this love for what is humble, and try very simply as someone who serves to win the confidence of what seems poor.” And Richard Wilbur has described how fruitful an aesthetic is that focuses on things. “Nothing but in things,” the bard from New Jersey reminds us.

In his book, the Power of Now, and later in The New Earth, Eckhart Tolle tells us that the goal is look at reality with full attention, full consciousness. And so these small crumbs.

In legend one leaves crumbs by the wayside to find our way back home. What happens if a bird or some creature eats the crumbs we have carefully left to guide us? Are we lost? It is in placing the crumbs that matters. Paying attention to our life, marking the moments that have caused us to stop and make sense of what has just happened. Only an exercise in observation perhaps, but fruitful one hopes, or at least pleasurable for a reader: getting to know another human being in language. All art is an attempt to overcome our physical limitations, to transcend ourselves, and greet another with love.

Greater Kolkata College of Engineering under JIS Group organised the 3rd National Conference

Kolkata, 8th April 2024 Greater Kolkata College of Engin ring, under the esteemed aegis of JIS Group Education Initiatives, concluded the two-day-long event, the 3rd National Conference on Emerging Approaches Towards Sustainability (NCEATS-2024). In technical collaboration with the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) Kolkata chapter, the conference was held on April 5th and 6th, 2024. Distinguished personalities from academia and industry graced the event, including Prof. (Dr.) Jyotsna Kumar Mandal, Ex. Vice Chancellor of Raiganj University West Bengal and Former Chairman of both CSI Kolkata Chapter & IETE Kolkata Center; Prof. (Dr.) Debashis De, Chairman of CSI-Kolkata Chapter and Professor at MAKAUT; Dr. Jyoti Sekhar Banerjee, Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (AI and ML) at Bengal Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India, and Secretary of CSI-Kolkata Chapter; Dr. Aniruddha Nag, Associate Professor at Techno India Group and Secretary of IETE, Ex-Chairman of CSI; Dr. Atanu Bhattacharjee, Associate Professor at JIS University, West Bengal; and Prof. (Dr.) Mahuya Das, Principal of GKCEM, Baruipur, Kolkata, West Bengal.

The primary objective of NCEATS-2024 was to provide a platform for academicians, engineers, and professionals from research laboratories and industry to share and exchange the latest advancements and findings in their respective fields. The conference featured oral presentations of technical papers across four diverse tracks over two days. NCEATS-2024 witnessed an overwhelming response, with 58 research papers in total among which 20 papers are from various states across the nation other than West Bengal. The accepted papers will be published in UGC Care and other indexing journals, thereby amplifying the dissemination of knowledge and bringing forward collaboration within the academic and industrial sectors. NCEATS-2024 stands as a token of commitment of Greater Kolkata College of Engineering and its partners to promote sustainable development through innovation and research. The conference serves as a vital platform for nurturing ideas, promoting interdisciplinary collaborations, and driving positive change toward a sustainable future.

On this occasion, Sardar Simarpreet Singh, Director, JIS Group, said, “Sustainability is not just a buzzword; it’s a commitment to our future. NCEATS-2024 exemplifies our dedication to garner innovation and collaboration towards a sustainable tomorrow.”

On World Health Day Satya School Organizes Inaugural Community Event

Gurugram, 8th April 2024: True to its objective of providing holistic growth, Satya School announced its inaugural community event, “Run for Fitness, Run with Satya”, on World Health Day. The run, which culminated on the school premises, underscores the school’s commitment to fostering a culture of fitness and well-being within its community, especially students.

Satya School is committed to fostering not only academic excellence but also the comprehensive growth of its students. The school’s mission is to develop individuals who excel academically while also embodying virtues such as compassion, resilience, courage, and integrity, highlighting the importance of contributing to society.

Emphasizing the significance of World Health Day in promoting well-being, Ms. Manisha Malhotra, Director-Principal of Satya School, “I would like to congratulate participants and winners of the run in making this initiative a success. Through initiatives like the “Run for Fitness, Run with Satya” event, we aim to instill resilience in our students. Encouraging students to participate in physical activities enhances their fitness, and also helps to build willpower, team spirit, and character. At Satya School, we are committed to raising well-rounded students who possess a multitude of capabilities and skills, that will help them take on the unexpected challenges of life.”

The run garnered significant participation from students, parents, and the wider Gurugram community. The event featured two categories; ages 3 to 9 covered distances from 1 to 2 kilometers, while ages 10 and above covered 3.5 to 5.5 kilometers. The winners were honored with gift vouchers and medals for their outstanding achievements.

The winners of the marathon from each category are:

Winners from 1-kilometer run:

• 1st- Tanmay
• 1st Runner-up Keyansh Gupta and Advik
• 2nd Runner up- Aarvi, Poorvansh and Aarush Goel

Winners from the 2-kilometer run:

• 1st- Kush Yadav
• 1st Runner up- Brijodh and Nirvana
• 2nd Runner up- Vardaan, Sidhant and Ahana

Winners from the 3.5-kilometer run:

• 1st- Harshit
• 1st Runner up- Dinesh Hooda, Aanav Kumar
• 2nd Runner Akhilesh Kumar, Manankit, and Ravinder

Winners from the 5.5-kilometer run:

• 1st- Chetan Kumar
• 1st Runner-up Jatin and Yogesh Sharma
• 2nd Runner-up Madan Bhandari, Rahul Thakran, and Naresh Yadav