Involvement
For my entire 4 years at Uvic I have been am member of the Physical Education Students Assosiation (PESA_, and for 3 of those years I have been the clubs President. I am currently still the President, am and searching for another individual who is passionate about physical activity as a daily lifestyle to take my place.
Our goal as a club is to raise awarness about the benefits of phyical activity in our community, our schools, and anywhere else we can touch. We organzie annual charity fundraisers to help those in our community who need assistance. Recently we have donated to the MS Society, Power to Be, Right to Play, and The Victoria Special Olympics.
We also host a variety of events for Uvic students (mostly EPHE), that help them make new friends, and introduce them to an active way of life.
My role as President, is to organzie, oversee, and facilitate every activity that is hosted by our club. In doing this, I have built many relationships in our community, and hope to continue spreading awareness, and helping those in need even after my time at Uvic is finished.
Of course, not enough good things can be said about the team that I have been working along side for these past 3 years. Some have come and some have gone, but their involvement has touched many lives, and I thank them for that!
Events
- Annual Welcome Back Event "Amazing Race": New students are introduced to returning students in a Victoria version of the show "Amazing Race" where students race around UVic and downtown Victoria in a scavenger hunt to collect a list of items and tasks.
- Annual T-Shirt Social: Tickets are sold to members of the program for a night of fun during the first semester. Each member receives there very own EPHE t-shirt! This event always sells out 200+ people. Profits from the event are donated to charity.
- Mo'vember Fundraiser & Mo'Grow Contest: In order to raise funds and awareness for prostate cancer PESA organized a Mo'contest. Male members along with a female sponsor both paid admission to enter the contest. With this and other donations we raised almost $1,000! Before and after pictures were taken of each Mo'Bro and PESA voted on a winner for the following three categories, full beard, straight stash, and mo'creative.
- EPHE Winter Wonderland Skate Fundraiser: This year PESA added a new event before the Christmas break. We rented out an ice arena for a private skate for program members and friends. For admission and skate rentals students were asked to bring a non-perishable food donation for the Mustard Seed Foodbank.
- EPHE Theme Social: Tickets are sold to members of the program for a night of fun during the second semester. This is a themed event, this year the theme was Tight n' Bright! Profits from the event are donated to charity.
- EPHE Program Apparel: PESA organized a contest to create a new student EPHE logo (seen above). In addition they are responsible for organizing and receiving sales orders, dealing with a local clothing supplier, and ensuring delivery of all program clothing. Sale of program clothing is done annually.
- Weekly Meetings: PESA members attend meetings once a week to discuss old and new business as well as students concerns and needs within the program.
- Community/Public Forum: Search "EPHE" on Facebook to see the group created where students are able to connect with one another and post things of interest.
- Organize health related seminars: Once a year PESA helps organize a health related guest speaker present a seminar (Most recently: Lauren Wollstencroft).
- Recent Charity Donations: Victoria Special Olympics ($200) Right to Play ($200) Power to be ($200) and MS Society ($200)
Facebook Group
EPHE :This group was created for anyone that is in the Exercise Science Physical and Health Education Program (P.E., Kinesiology, Rhed) at the University of Victoria. It is also open to former members as well as people that are interested in the program.
Important information such as registration reminders, program info, as well as all the fun stuff like social events and other program related activities is posted there.
Users are welcome to post photos, videos, any content they feel is relevant to the group.
This group was created in order to create a community among students as well as provide networking opportunities for individuals. The group currently has more than 230 students subscribed