Pelotonia

The last project that we've done in this term talks about NGOs. We did it in partners and Marina and me decided to talk about Pelotonia.

Here you have some information about it:

Founded in 2008, Pelotonia was established with the objective to fund life-saving cancer research. The model of Pelotonia remains simple: Pelotonia’s operating expenses are covered by generous funding partners so that 100% of every dollar raised by Pelotonia Riders, Virtual Riders and Volunteers goes directly to fund cancer research at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center.  

Pelotonia is a three-day experience that includes a weekend of cycling, entertainment and volunteerism. In its first six rides, Pelotonia raised more than $82 million for cancer research. Thanks to its generous funding partners, Pelotonia is able to direct 100 percent of every rider-raised dollar to cancer research at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute

The James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute is the patient-care component of The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center. The James is a transformational facility that fosters the collaboration and integration of cancer research and clinical cancer care. The James is the largest cancer hospital in the Midwest and the third largest in the nation.

August 6, 2014) – Pelotonia, the grassroots fundraiser with One Goal End Cancer, is projecting more than 7,000 riders and 2,500 volunteers this year, surpassing the 6,723 riders and 2,300 volunteers who participated in 2013.

Traveling from 41 states and five different countries, the record-breaking number of riders is expected to raise more than $19 million, which would bring the overall fundraising total to more than $86 million

Based on ridership, Pelotonia is the largest single-event cycling fundraiser benefitting cancer research in the United States. Riders make a commitment to raise a minimum of $1,200 to $2,200 for cancer research based on their route choice.

Pelotonia donates 100 percent of every rider-raised dollar directly to The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center

Along the 180-mile route, more than 2,500 volunteers will support riders by providing snacks, beverages, first aid assistance and bike maintenance services alongside thousands of supporters cheering riders throughout their ride.

Idea Grants

It is unlikely that a cure for cancer will come from one scientist. Instead, it will be through team science that we will get new answers and treatments. With this in mind, the Pelotonia Research Award Program provided two-year “idea” grants that enable creative teams of scientists at Ohio State to embark on research that could lead to discoveries resulting in better treatments and prevention strategies.

The Pelotonia Fellowship Program

The Pelotonia Fellowship Program trains promising and accomplished undergraduate, graduate, medical and postdoctoral students from any discipline at Ohio State who have the potential to become independent cancer researchers. The Fellowship Program started in 2010 and to date has awarded 292 student fellowships through an annual allocation of 2 million in Pelotonia revenue for this program. Scholarship recipients so far include:

• 129 undergraduates
• 77 graduates
• 4 medical students
• 61 postdoctoral fellows

21 international scholars

Programs include a fellowship program, funding student researchers; idea grants, funding teams of faculty researchers; new laboratory instrumentation; and recruitment and retention of some of the world’s best cancer researchers and programs.

 VICTORIA’S SECRET ANGELS SWEAT IT OUTTO END CANCER

Victoria’s Secret Angels Elsa Hosk, Jac Jagaciak, Jasmine Tookes, Lais Ribeiro, Martha Hunt, and Romee Strijd hosted the annual Supermodel Cycle to benefit Pelotonia – an annual grassroots bike tour that raises funds for cancer research at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center

Each year, more than 6,000 cyclists descend upon Columbus, Ohio to ride for cancer research—a mix of cancer survivors, experienced cyclists, and many riding in honor of loved ones.

The Supermodel Cycle ride to support Pelotonia took place at SoulCycle’s West Village location. 100% of the proceeds were donated directly to Pelotonia to support Ohio State’s world renowned Cancer Research.

And here is the prezi that we've made:

Human Rights

The second project we made is about the Human Rights . There are 30 rights and we divided them up between all theb studients. Some of us made 2 rights.
The rights that I chose were number 24 and 27 and they talk about:

ARTICLE 24

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

She is Chanel, my kitten. She is sleeping so, even though she is an animal, she is exercising her right to rest.

ARTICLE 27

Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary  or artistic production of which he is the author.

In this picture my friend Ana is rehearsing with AMSIA (Asociación Musical San Isidro de Armilla).

Simone de Beauvoir

Here is my first project of the year which talks about Simone de Beauvoir. I have made a video that resumes the text that my group and I made.

Here is the link for our video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?edit=vd&v=lcpE9_LCUFI

And here you have the text that we made:

 BIOGRAPHY

Simone de Beauvoir was born on January 9, 1908, in Paris, France. When she was 21, de Beauvoir met Jean-Paul Sartre, forming a partnership and romance that would shape her life and philosophical beliefs. Beauvoir published many works of fiction and non-fiction aligned with existentialist ideas. Her best-known work is 1949's The Second Sex, a feminist text. She died in Paris on April 14, 1986.

FEMINISM AND PHILOSOPHY

Simone de Beauvoir gained notoriety for her work Le Deuxième Sexe (The Second Sex), published in 1949. The 972-page book, which analyzes reasons why women's role in society was characterized as inferior to men, was received with great controversy. Some critics characterized the book as pornography, and the Vatican placed it on the Index of Forbidden Books.
Le Deuxième Sexe was published in America in 1953, but the English edition was only a shadow of the original, as a zoologist with limited French skills translated it. In 2009, an unedited English volume was published, bolstering de Beauvoir's reputation as a feminist.
De Beauvoir published an assortment of both fiction and non-fiction works. Of the former, Les Mandarins (The Mandarins, 1954) is the best known; the Prix Goncourt-winning work urges the educated population to participate in political activism.
De Beauvoir's own interest in politics sparked after World War II. She criticized capitalism and defended communism.
In her later career, de Beauvoir wrote about aging. Une Mort Très Douce (A Very Easy Death, 1964) details her mother's death.
Her 1981 work, La Cérémonie des Adieux (Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre), recalls the last years of her partner's life.
De Beauvoir died six years after Sartre. The two share a grave.

 In this picture I've tried to represent the union between Simone and Sartre, feminism and philodophy.

Introduction

Welcome to my blog which I've made with the idea of publicizing the links for my projects for Education for Citizenship: one of the subjects that I'm studying.

In each post, I will describe a bit about each project or I will do a summing-up.
Also, I will try to post a black and white pic (take by me) that will have something in common with the topic of the project and I'll explain why I chose each pic.

I hope it can help in future projects for the rest of the students at my secondary school and I hope you like and enjoy it.

Thank you,

Clara.