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Check out our new BPK Peer Mentorship Program!

Apparently the BPK department has been dropping the ball in the mentorship area…but not any more! We are all over Peer Mentorship with a VENGEANCE!

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We are starting our new program this Fall 2014 and are recruiting new Mentors to be pairing up with the incoming BPK first year students!

If you: are fun, engaging, talented, social, encouraging, knowledgeable and a third or fourth year student we want you to be a Mentor! Why be a mentor you ask? You will have an amazing impact on that new students first year, help them succeed, become more engaged in BPK and just allow them to have a way better time in their transition into SFU life. Is it hard to be a mentor? Not at all, and you have probably already mentored your younger friends without knowing it!

Be a part of a new awesome feature designed to bring the whole BPK community together! Tell your friends and get on board!

Click here to check out our Mentor sign up and to learn more about the program!

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Kin 241 Videos

Check out the recently updated YouTube Videos page here, which now includes videos filmed by the current Kin 241 TA Patrick Dessaulles! Hopefully this helps anyone studying for the lab final on Wednesday. Good luck!!

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Bouldering – Nov. 19

What’s bouldering? It’s a type of rock climbing that involves shorter ascents which, due to their length, don’t require a rope – just a crash pad at the bottom. It’s fun, and we’re going! You can go too!

Check out the Facebook event and let us know if you plan on coming. We’ve got a pretty good group discount going on as they’re giving us the night-climbing rate before their night-climbing hours actually begin, and they’re throwing in rentals for free!

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Australian professional school info session

If any of you have an interest in attending school for medicine, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, or speech pathology, and are wondering what it’d be like to do it in Australia, then have I got news for you!

On September 19th (next Weds) from 4-6pm in AQ 5037, GlobaLinks Learning Abroad is hosting an info session to let you know about some of the opportunities they have for such endeavours. Several institutions are included, such as the Universities of Melbourne, Sydney, Queensland, and Griffith University.

You can RSVP, or get more information from their Facebook event.

I know people who’ve done physio down under and loved it, so if you’re thinking about any
of those career paths and are open to studying where there are more sun and funny accents, then check it out.

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Research volunteer opportunity

Some of you will have already seen this via email, but a few volunteer positions in the Injury Prevention and Mobility Lab, led by Dr. Steve Robinovitch, have opened up, and they’re accepting applications until Sept. 28th. You can direct your applications to Bobbi Symes (bsymes@sfu.ca).

CONTACT NAME: Bobbi Symes, Research Manager, Injury Prevention and Mobility Lab

Fall 2012 – Volunteers in the Injury Prevention and Mobility Lab

The Injury Prevention and Mobility Laboratory (IPML) at Simon Fraser University is an interdisciplinary group of researchers dedicated to improving the understanding of the biomechanics of human movement, with specific focus on the prevention of injuries and enhancement of mobility. Lead by Dr. Stephen Robinovitch, our research group includes graduate students and post-doctoral researchers in Engineering, Kinesiology, and Health Sciences.

We are currently seeking a team of 5-6 motivated volunteers to assist with video analysis of real life falls. The successful candidates will work with an expert team trained in the analysis process guided by a structured questionnaire.  All volunteers will be provided a manual, and a half-day training session.

Each volunteer should be committed to participating in at least 2 analysis sessions per week (approximately 4 hours total).

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Welcome Back Barbecue

Next Thursday, (September 13th) from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm, we’d like to invite you to come celebrate being a part of BPK at the Welcome Back Barbecue. It’s in the courtyard downstairs between kin and physics. If you’re at the intersection by the 142 lab on the 8000 level, turn right and head out the double doors at the end of the hallway.

With a minimum donation of $3.00 you can get yourself a tasty lunch (beef or veggie burger, drink, snacks) and support the Terry Fox Foundation at the same time. Since Terry was an undergraduate in Kinesiology before he began his Marathon of Hope, supporting his legacy has always been important to the department.

Please fill out the web form so that enough food is purchased for the event. It’s a short survey, promise, I just filled it out. It asks if you’d like a beef burger or a veggie burger. That’s it.

While you’re there, consider signing up for Team BPK for SFU’s annual Terry Fox Run. BPK has had the biggest team the last couple of years and we’d like it to stay that way.

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Kin Games 2013

You may have seen this mentioned in the BPK Facebook group, but in case you didn’t, the Kin Games is a Canada-wide student-run Kinesiology conference that’s going on its 13th year. This year they’re being hosted at the University of Calgary on March 22-24, 2013.

Each year, over 600 students from over 24 Universities across Canada attend for friendly competition in sports and academics, and for the chance to socialize with Kines students from all over the country. Due to the large number of schools interested, and limited accommodations, they can only accept the first 26 schools interested. This year, teams will be composed of 24 students each.

The Kin Games Planning Committe at U of C provides attendees with food, accommodation logistics, and party and sports bookings. The attendees just have to pay for transportation, accommodations, and the registration fee, which is isn’t available yet on the Kin Games website but hopefully will be shortly.

If you would be interested in attending, let us know! The sooner a full roster of people commit, the better SFU’s chances of sending a team.

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Science Frosh 2012

Some of you may have been involved with Science Frosh in the past. I’d tell you how much fun it is, but I actually haven’t so that would sort of make me a liar. But I know people who have, and they said it was a lot of fun!

They are still looking for volunteers to help out, either as a frosh leader or in some other capacity, so if that sounds like something you’d be interested in then sign up using ye olde web survey!

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Fall meetings

Sup, BPK.

I’d like to direct your attention to that box over at the left there. That one that says meetings on top of it. Yeah, that’s the one. That’s when/where they’ll be for the fall semester. I actually had to look the room number up, but that’s the kin seminar room, if you are familiar with it. Head down the kin hallway on the 9000-level until you hit the intersection by the office, then take a right and walk past co-op. Second (I think?) door on the left.

This is where we figure out all the stuff we would like to do for the semester, so if you came out to anything last year (Roger Takahashi’s talk, Careers in BPK, the Kin Cup, Wings night, etc.) and want to help out, or give suggestions, or just chill, feel free to come out. Everyone’s always welcome.