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Weekly DIY: Instructables 'Go Green' Contest

August 15, 2007 By 1 Comment


Instructables.com is currently holding a ‘Go Green’ contest for green projects. The contest is being co-sponsored by Popular Science and Treehugger. Prizes include a hybrid commuter bicycle, subscriptions to Popular Science, and T-shirts (what contest doesn’t have T-shirts as prizes?). Full details and guidelines for the contest can be found at the Instructables site.

If you aren’t already familiar with it, Instructables is a website that offers step-by-step instructions on creating all kinds of DIY projects, ranging from relatively easy crafts to complicated robotics projects. While they are focusing on green projects for this current contest, they regularly have all manner of do-it-yourself projects. The site’s focus is on not just making things, but on showing other people how to make the cool things you have made, and how you did it.

There are many green projects on the Instructables site, beyond those that are already entries in the current ‘Go Green’ contest. Anything that you can create, and more importantly, that you can show someone else how to create, is a candidate for this contest:

"You can reuse vintage floppies, make your own cloth grocery bags, build some recycled modular shelving, a sun jar, a solar heater, or a wind generator. Move onto solar energy, worm compost, or even ditch your car for an electric bike!
Need more ideas? Check out TreeHugger’s great list of simple ways to Go Green, and the green coverage on PopSci.

"So, reduce, reuse, repurpose, recycle, and rebuild, then show us what you are doing to make your life a little bit greener!"

The contest is open through August 19, 2007. If you have submitted an entry to the contest, be sure to let us know about it in the comments.

After the competition results are announced, we are planning to feature some of the most appealing finalists as part of our Weekly DIY series here on Green Options. The top prize winner is going to be featured in a brief write-up in Popular Science magazine. But we are going to offer our own Green Options highlights and a bit more coverage to some of the most intriguing projects we see, as well.

BOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY ATHLETES TO GET ‘MENTAL TOUGHNESS’ TRAINING FROM NAVY SEALS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News February 9, 2011 BOWIE, Md., Feb. 9 — Bowie State University issued the following news release:

This spring, Bowie State University male athletes will have an opportunity to train with the U.

S. Navy SEALs in a relationship announced today by member schools of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association and the SEALs.

As part of the Navy’s effort to attract top minority talent, all 13 members of the CIAA-the nation’s oldest black athletic conference, established in 1912-have agreed to participate in the “Mental Toughness, Never Quit” campaign.

The training will occur during on-campus “Mental Toughness” seminars this month and in March at each school, as well as follow-up “Mental Toughness” conditioning and team-building events at the Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base in Virginia Beach, Va. The base events will take place during spring football camp, a time in which the teams assess their talent and provide conditioning for the upcoming fall season. The SEALs will provide players with a unique look into how mental preparedness is essential to winning. in our site navy seals training

The on-campus seminar at Bowie State University will occur at 7 p.m. Feb. 22.

“I feel this is a tremendous partnership opportunity for our student-athletes to participate in the Navy Seals’ “Mental Toughness, Never Quit” training. Our student-athletes will have the opportunity to experience and learn things from this training that will not only help them in their sport, but will also aid them in life. No individual can ever have too much mental toughness. Our student-athletes will reap the benefits of the lessons learned for a lifetime”, said BSU Athletic Director Anton Goff. this web site navy seals training

The goal of the program-which includes goal-setting, visualization, positive self talk and 4x4x4 breathing skills-is to provide valuable training to athletes while exposing them to potential career opportunities within the SEAL Teams.

“We need a strong force of mentally tough, culturally-diverse SEALs,” Cmdr. Brodes Hartley of the Navy SEALs said. “We need the broad spectrum of thought and perspective, and the cultural insights that come from that diversity, to keep us on the cutting edge as warriors.” Ron Carpenter, a defensive back for the 2000 Super Bowl Champion St. Louis Rams, will help facilitate the program with the schools and the SEALs. He is now with LuBear Corp., a marketing and personnel firm based in Cincinnati, Ohio. For any query with respect to this article or any other content requirement, please contact Editor at htsyndication@hindustantimes.com

 

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