Sentences with phrase «volunteer team which»

> Star Team Award, which celebrates a Cats Protection volunteer team which has brought about a particularly positive result for cat welfare, takes place on Saturday 7 July and Sunday 8 July.

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This program which connects experienced entrepreneurs with a team of skilled volunteer mentors.

The Growth Mentoring Service is an ECJC program, modeled after the established and highly recognized MIT VMS mentoring program, which connects experienced entrepreneurs with a team of skilled volunteer mentors.

When they arrived in the capital, a medic collected the patients from the aircraft and rushed them for successful separation surgery at a clinic, which was performed by a team of volunteer surgeons.

«We will do as much as we can,» said Kristin Koning, an assistant program manager with Samaritan's Purse, which is already signing up volunteer teams online.

I dealt with 15 or so volunteer - in - mission teams while serving in the Dominican Republic, and I know from this experience that career missionaries should try to prepare the way for such teams and help them become oriented to the situation in which they will be working.

Sterud helped the team find two additional boats and volunteer captains so most of the team, which had since seen its numbers drop by about half, to compete.

The two - year charity partnership, which has already received an overwhelming response from fans, will see the Club help raise awareness of the work of the charity and drive the recruitment of volunteers via high profile events and the support of the First Team players.

The midget soccer team is one of the Hickory Hills Park District's Volunteers in the Park programs, which use about 60 volunteers such as Geschrey each year to run its sports leagues and events, says Dan Maier, the district's program sVolunteers in the Park programs, which use about 60 volunteers such as Geschrey each year to run its sports leagues and events, says Dan Maier, the district's program svolunteers such as Geschrey each year to run its sports leagues and events, says Dan Maier, the district's program supervisor.

A great resource is Tiny Footprints, a non-profit organization which has a team of volunteer photographers across the country who specialize in free photography for NICU families.

We've already looked at the campaign's grassroots - organizing model, which required a tremendous investment in time from — and an immense amount of trust in — volunteer team members and their recruits, but the Obamans ventured out onto plenty of other ground on which political campaigns normally fear to tread.

A hierarchical social network, Dashboard gave volunteers on the ground a platform with which to communicate with Obama 2012 team members in their neighborhood and even track their performance against their peers».

Glaser spoke about the «Labor for Your Neighbor» events held over the long weekend, in which about 1,000 volunteers from around the state — including an Olympic bobsled team — pitched in on the recovery effort.

Instead, the team used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to detect populations of cells that seemed to fire as the volunteers played a virtual reality game in which they had to replace an object in the location where they originally found it.

Next, the team asked another group of volunteers to undertake tasks designed to soften their existing views, such as preparing speeches on the death penalty in which they had to take the opposite view to their own.

The team added two different strawberry aromas to small pots of yoghurt and asked volunteers which was the most filling.

By analyzing how long it took them to draw the spiral and how hard they pressed on the paper with the pen, the team could not only tell which volunteers had Parkinson's disease, they could also tell how severe it was.

Their team persuaded 22 volunteers — some Doom experts, some casual players, and mostly male — to spend two nights in their laboratory hooked up to an electroencephalograph (EEG), which measures the brain's electrical activity.

As Science Careers noted 5 years ago, a group of young scientists at WUSTL took matters into their own hands, creating the volunteer - run BALSA (or Biotechnology and Life Sciences Advising) Group, which hires out five - person interdisciplinary teams — sometimes including law or business students along with scientists — to do approximately 6 - week - long consulting projects for companies, universities, and other organizations.

Keller's team, which published the findings in March, had 26 volunteers sniff 520 odor «cocktails.»

Each day the team sequenced the microbial RNA in the volunteers» faeces to identify which gut microbes were present.

To do this, the research team enrolled 65 healthy volunteers aged 18 to 50 years in the human challenge study — a type of research study in which individuals are exposed to disease - causing pathogens under carefully controlled conditions.

After this task, which lasted around 15 minutes, Jucker's team asked the volunteers to again create their ideal women's body size using the software.

The team asked the volunteers to play a computer game in which they navigated an open space to find objects.

This summer, LeBourgeois launched a five - year, $ 2.5 million study funded by the National Institutes of Health, in which her research team goes into the homes of volunteer families, exposes children to varying intensities of light and collects saliva samples to measure changes in melatonin levels and the timing of the biological clock.

The team — which includes marine scientists, a commercial mussel farmer, and volunteers from a New York City — based youth development program — spent several exhausting days collecting nearly 32,000 adult ribbed mussels from the salt marshes and mudflats of Jamaica Bay in New York City.

The goal for Backyard Worlds volunteers — of which there are more than 37,000 — is to flag the moving objects they see in these digital flipbooks for further investigation by the science team.

His team collected eggs from 11 volunteers using the standard IVF approach, which involves collecting eggs just as the first polar body forms.

Volunteers helped her team identify cancerous cells by looking at slides from drug trials in the online collaboration Cell Slider, results of which were presented in November at the National Cancer Research Institute's annual conference.

Then Jack's team asked volunteers to decide which emotions the faces were expressing, if any.

By testing the sensor on volunteers during a simulation in which oxygen levels were cut, the team was able to identify a set of VOCs signalling the onset of hypoxia.

The team tested its patch on both pig skin (which is an excellent model for the human skin barrier) and on healthy human volunteers and found that it could accurately monitor glucose levels across the hypo - to hyper - glycaemic range in diabetic patients over six hours.

A team led by Steven Schwartz at UCLA administered about 50,000 cells Tuesday into one eye of a volunteer suffering from Stargardt Macular Dystrophy, a progressive form of blindness that usually begins in childhood, and another with Dry Age - Related Macular Degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the developed world, Advanced Cell Technology, which is sponsoring the study, announced Thursday.

Research activities are supported by an active Community Advisory Board (CAB), which was created in 2005 as part of an effort to facilitate dialogue between community members, study volunteers and the research team.

And then we have our Stacks Program which are groups of veterans and civilians that come together within their communities to either do team building events where they just might go out and get some pizza and hang out or they will go volunteer with another veteran's organization and do some good work for veterans within their community.

Unlike most dating sites, in which users independently browse profiles, SYAS relies on a team of volunteer matchmakers who scour databases of users and suggest matches to the users they represent.

Herewith a random collection of things that have been clogging up The Film Experience pipeline (i.e. my desktop and emails) which I never got around to writing about and no team maker volunteered to cover.

Citizen Schools, which has 3,500 volunteer teachers and 400 full - time and part - time staffers and «team leaders,» offers its 4,500 students one of the nation's most innovative and challenging after - school courses of study.

«We've assembled a bit of a green team, which are just student volunteers that have this initial passion to look after the environment and get involved in their local community,» the Science and Marine Studies teacher says.

Smalley says despite his full - time job at TED and the demands of this new project, which he manages with the help of a small team of other volunteers, he remains an avid reader.

Earlier this year, we published a report produced by a team of volunteer economists from Pro Bono Economics, which revealed that students who have taken a CREST Silver Award achieved half a grade higher on their best science GCSE result and were more likely to continue with STEM education, compared to a matched control group.

The Earthwatch Institute, an international nonprofit organization founded in 1971, which recruits volunteers from many fields every year to join research teams around the globe.

The MET project, which was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is a collaboration between dozens of independent research teams and nearly 3,000 teacher volunteers from seven U.S. public school districts.

A committee of peers, comprised of trained, professional educators who have volunteered to serve on an Accreditation Visiting Team, conduct an on - site assessment of an institution which is informed by the school's Self - Reflection and based on the Standards.

«Our team of volunteers, which includes scientists and practitioners from fields of education and psychology, began exploring options to develop social and emotional competence in kids in the best possible way.

The space opened last October after a summer during which Burleson and a dedicated team of PTO parent volunteers put sweat equity into its creation as part of the school's centennial celebrations.

They lead the Raccoon Team at Project Wildlife, which consists of 15 - 20 people including rescue, cleaning and home care volunteers.

The Gentle Barn, which is open for tours, is a nonprofit organization and relies on the help of a dedicated team of volunteers, as well as donations and support from the public.

What started with one dedicated dog lover has now become a flourishing rescue centre with a team of volunteers which can house up to 60 dogs at any one time.

The team will be guided through a series of activities in which they demonstrate practical application of skills and knowledge that are frequently encountered in a volunteer visiting environment.