Nebraska Leadership Seminar, Inc. (NLS) is a four-day leadership seminar for Nebraska high school sophomores. Using interactive activities and interaction with other young leaders, NLS works to create a fun and relaxed learning environment. NLS's curriculum focuses on strengths-based leadership, civic responsibility, and peer interaction. The goal of NLS's curriculum is to assist students to develop their own unique strengths, work well with the different strengths of others, and to use their newfound leadership skills to benefit their local communities.
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The Nebraska Leadership Seminar, Inc. (NLS) was founded in 1978 and incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1983. The goal of NLS has been to provide future Nebraska leaders with an opportunity to identify and develop their leadership skills by participating in a four-day residential conference environment.
NLS targets Nebraska high school students between their sophomore and junior year. All Nebraska high schools are invited to nominate two (2) students, referred to as delegates, to participate in the seminar. During the seminar, students participate in interactive team building activities, meet prominent Nebraska business leaders, engage in current events discussions, and a complete a volunteer service project in their local community. The format of the seminar is designed to encourage the discovery, development, and application of their leadership skills. Delegates are encouraged and supported as they voice their personal perspectives while learning to appreciate and respect opinions that differ from their own. Peer interaction is built into the program to promote bonds and friendship with other student leaders from across the state.
In 2001 NLS partnered with the Gallup Organization to offer delegates the opportunity to participate in the .
About
The Nebraska Leadership Seminar, Inc. (NLS) was founded in 1978 and incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1983. The goal of NLS has been to provide future Nebraska leaders with an opportunity to identify and develop their leadership skills by participating in a four-day residential conference environment.
NLS targets Nebraska high school students between their sophomore and junior year. All Nebraska high schools are invited to nominate two (2) students, referred to as delegates, to participate in the seminar. During the seminar, students participate in interactive team building activities, meet prominent Nebraska business leaders, engage in current events discussions, and a complete a volunteer service project in their local community. The format of the seminar is designed to encourage the discovery, development, and application of their leadership skills. Delegates are encouraged and supported as they voice their personal perspectives while learning to appreciate and respect opinions that differ from their own. Peer interaction is built into the program to promote bonds and friendship with other student leaders from across the state.
In 2001 NLS partnered with the Gallup Organization to offer delegates the opportunity to participate in the .
Diane Engber is a Jewish teacher, writer, and mother who currently resides in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is most noted for her work with African and South American literature and has taught at such prestigious schools as the University of Cincinnati.
Literary Work
Diane was one of the premiere teachers on African and South American literature [http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/journals/nwsa/nwstoc8.html#v8n1] in the state of Ohio and was, in the late 90s , a promoter of the internet back when there were apprehensions.
While at University of Cincinnati, Diane Engber developed what would become a nationally recognized course on postcolonial writings by women. An article was featured in NWSA Magazine [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?ao&segglsc&d=96536302] about her course. Engber stated that, "To teach this literature effectively, I had to learn to view literature differently from how I had been trained to view it, to learn more about geography and history, and to become acutely sensitive to my cultural position in relationship to the literature." The course was successful and it put Engber on a plateau of feminist writers and teachers in Middle America.[http://www.artsci.uc.edu/womens_studies/PDF_files/CC%20honor%20roll-revsd%205-5-04.pdf]
Diane is currently a teacher at and teaches the courses English 1, English 3, and African American Writers. She is commonly thought of as the best English teacher at St. Xavier, and possibly the best English teacher in Catholic high school history. Students who are interviewed about their learning experience in Diane Engber's class often claim that they have been inspired to do great things in the writing world. As a now permanent staple in the St. Xavier community, Diane has been at this post for almost a decade and will most likely continue to teach English at St. Xavier for a very long time, much to the everlasting joy of her English students.
In 2005, Diane led a project through her English 1 class to help the oppressed in Africa by making books for them. Students sent over 50 books and this effort was largely noticed and thought of highly by the St. Xavier community.
Literary Work
Diane was one of the premiere teachers on African and South American literature [http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/journals/nwsa/nwstoc8.html#v8n1] in the state of Ohio and was, in the late 90s , a promoter of the internet back when there were apprehensions.
While at University of Cincinnati, Diane Engber developed what would become a nationally recognized course on postcolonial writings by women. An article was featured in NWSA Magazine [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?ao&segglsc&d=96536302] about her course. Engber stated that, "To teach this literature effectively, I had to learn to view literature differently from how I had been trained to view it, to learn more about geography and history, and to become acutely sensitive to my cultural position in relationship to the literature." The course was successful and it put Engber on a plateau of feminist writers and teachers in Middle America.[http://www.artsci.uc.edu/womens_studies/PDF_files/CC%20honor%20roll-revsd%205-5-04.pdf]
Diane is currently a teacher at and teaches the courses English 1, English 3, and African American Writers. She is commonly thought of as the best English teacher at St. Xavier, and possibly the best English teacher in Catholic high school history. Students who are interviewed about their learning experience in Diane Engber's class often claim that they have been inspired to do great things in the writing world. As a now permanent staple in the St. Xavier community, Diane has been at this post for almost a decade and will most likely continue to teach English at St. Xavier for a very long time, much to the everlasting joy of her English students.
In 2005, Diane led a project through her English 1 class to help the oppressed in Africa by making books for them. Students sent over 50 books and this effort was largely noticed and thought of highly by the St. Xavier community.
Mark Scudder is a musician living in the Binghamton area of upstate New York. He is primarily a guitarist who uses electric and acoustic guitar to create space music soundscapes. Mark has been in the past, and is now, the host of Mad Trivia Party a local radio quiz show on the Binghamton Radio station WHRW. This has made him something of a local celebrity in Binghamton and its environs.
James M. McCanney, M.S. received a sound classical physics training at St. Mary’s University of Minnesota. In 1970 he received a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in physics and mathematics. He then traveled and taught Physics and Mathematics in Spanish in Latin America. He traveled to ruins of ancient cities and archeological sites, studying ruins firsthand.
Before falling out of favor with the powers that be at Cornell University McCanney had original articles published in mainstream scientfic journals. These articles were titled "Continuing Galactic Formation" and "Saturn's Sweeper Moons Predicted".
McCanney is notable for his groundbreaking theoretical work in developing the Electric Dipole Red Shift theory and in 2007 by solving the Prime Number Problem, the solution to which he published privately.
Before falling out of favor with the powers that be at Cornell University McCanney had original articles published in mainstream scientfic journals. These articles were titled "Continuing Galactic Formation" and "Saturn's Sweeper Moons Predicted".
McCanney is notable for his groundbreaking theoretical work in developing the Electric Dipole Red Shift theory and in 2007 by solving the Prime Number Problem, the solution to which he published privately.