HPW Student Internship Experience – Wesley Titus Spring 17′ Interning at the Kettle Moraine YMCA was an amazing experience to learn from people working with many different wellness journeys. I was able to work at West Bend Mutual insurance, Alloy training at the Y, group training, live strong, Diabetes Prevention training, and was able to […]
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HPW Student Internship Experience – Samantha Schmitz Spring 17′ Pictured above is a small group of clients and I after the Strength and Movement course I instructed. One of my internship goals was to facilitate a project on behavior change, in the physical dimension of wellness. I was asked to develop curriculum for an adaptive […]
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HPW Student Internship Experience – Alec Priewe Spring 17′ Working with NAOMI as a Community Organizer Intern was a unique and insightful experience. NAOMI is an interfaith organization that builds power for change through congregational organizing. That being said I got to work with many different groups in conjunction with our Poverty, Treatment Instead of […]
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I grew up wearing a faded blue Breakers Bar sweatshirt. I didn’t know where it came from or why the pale color made it look like it had been washed hundreds of times. I certainly never would have guessed that the story behind it would eventually intertwine with my Summercise internship in Nome. When I […]
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HPW Student Internship Experience – Brittany Penn Spring 17′ Interning at Wausau Academy of Dance was a wonderful experience for coordinating and implementing a wellness program for a site that has never had a wellness program. I was a part of the process from the beginning of creating what the program would look like for […]
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HPW Student Internship Experience – Rogue Larson Spring 17′ Quite the experience interning at SCSU. If you have never heard the saying, “hit the ground running,” you would here. I was immediately involved in professional staff meetings, worker staff meetings and meetings with other people around campus to assist in organizing and running big campus […]
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HPW Student Internship Experience – Drew King Spring 17′ Interning with HealthSource Solutions was an incredibly beneficial opportunity to both expand upon and utilize previously acquired knowledge from coursework at UWSP. I chose the worksite wellness direction for my internship and was able to essentially act as part of the team alongside wellness coordinators, wellness […]
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HPW Student Internship Experience – Marie Krengel Spring 17′ My internship at cardiopulmonary rehab gave me a multitude of opportunities and new experiences. On a daily basis, I got to implement and supervise physical exercise programs for heart disease and pulmonary patients. I did this by taking blood pressure measurements at rest and during exercise, […]
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HPW Student Internship Perspective – Colleen Behrens 16′ Interning at Portage County of Wisconsin was a very interesting experience. Walking into an internship expecting some direction, and receiving none is very intimidating. However, being lucky enough to work with a co-intern made this intimidating experience not so intimidating. To begin, Kaitlyn and I printed out […]
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HPW Student Internship Experience – Celina Romenesko 15′ Interning at the Sheboygan Area School District (SASD) was a great experience. I met with many people while interning to see what their jobs and their duties were like so I could put a better fit behind my own degree. I made many bathroom readings that my […]
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