CCSU’s Latin Dance Club

If you go to CCSU and are looking for a latin dance class look no further.

CCSU provides a free dance class for their students called COLADA. COLADA stands for Centrals Organization for Latin American Dance Awareness.

Jason Pippin COLADA Dance Instructor

COLADA was formed to help promote, share, and further the understanding and awareness of Latin American culture through dance and music; while encouraging other individuals with a different ethnic background to participate.

The organization teaches various styles of dance such as Salsa, Bachata, Merengue, Kizomba, Cha-cha, Tango, and is open to teaching other styles of dance as well.

Regular Meeting Times is Tuesday and Thursday 7:30p – 9:30pm in the Midcampus Dance Studio.

The class currently has about 16 members that are CCSU students. Not everyone in the dance class is a dance major or minor. The students use it as a fun activity, exercise, and another way to meet new people or just to learn how to dance.

The organization occasionally has different events where they perform their dance routines by going to public schools for students in elementary, middle, and high school around the New Britain and Hartford area. To stay up to date on these events you can follow the COLADA Instagram page.

The COLASO event is planned for April 21, 2018 on a Saturday at 7:00pm in the Alumni Student Center, is a collaborated event between COLADA and LASO (Latin American Student Organization). This event is going to be a live Gala that is open to the public that will be an award ceremony. The event will also be having a live band, a DJ, and latin food.

 

 

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Greg Sieron is the Jerome Home Dining Director. Sieron is in charge making sure everything runs smoothly in the kitchen, dining room, and every resident needs are satisfied.

Jerome Home was Greg Sieron’s first job as a high school student. Sieron dreamed of becoming a police officer and pursed an associates in Criminal Justice at Tunxis Community College.

He chose not to pursue Crimainal Justice when he took advantages of the opportunities given to him at Jerome Home. He was able to turn his job into a career. Not only that but Sieron says “I love what I do. Never thought I would be doing it, but I get so much satisfaction out of it and have influenced so many lives that it’s just awesome.”

Sieron has been working for the company for close to 13 years now. In these 13 years of experience, he has actually did the job of the people he is managing and feels he has a big advantage to other people with his position.

In his experience there are always challenges no matter what. Finding solutions is a big part of the job.

Changes Sieron would like to make, is working on a “open dining program”, where residents can eat when they want similar to being at home. Some residents get up later than others and it wont be fair if they miss out on a meal or being served cold food because they were sleeping.

Sieron makes changes are made all the time but he feels in his position where he can actually make changes that can have a great influence on the residents lives.

Sieron’s most rewarding part of the job is getting satisfaction from residents and their families. Influencing people’s lives and making their last day’s worth while.

He feels he does so much more than just feeding the residents. They plan out trips to take them to various places and do different activities with them in the dining room. He does all of this to make this place really fell like home. Sieron says “We want to show that they don’t just live here, they have a life here!”

When he hears a resident say “Thank you, this was the best day of my life,” and give him a big hug that’s the biggest reward he can receive.

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JT Rainey is the next new computer science mogul!

Jaiquan Tyrone Rainey

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Rainey was a procrastinator in high school and didn’t know what he wanted to do at first. He never liked office work and always wanted to do something more progressive. He was going to major in manufacturing engineering but his love for computers changed his mind.

Rainey was glad he made the change to computer science.

Computer science can be broken down to many categories. He would like to focus more on software development.

He finds software development as an interesting and fun challenge. He has an interest for logic riddles and puzzles that he feels software development is similar too and it always keeps him engaged.

As a student, Rainey is very smart (and funny) with his grades being around a B average. His work ethic depends on the class subject material; Rainey says “It’s difficult to find motivation to do boring homework”. If the class is something he finds interesting, like his coding class, he finishes his homework weeks in advance.

Rainey’s goals are to graduate from CCSU with a bachelors then go off and do some work for a couple of years, to get experience and his foot in the door in his field. He eventually wants to go back to school to get his masters as well.

Software development also has many steps as well, that one can become an expert in.

He plans on opening his own business and become a coding consultant. As a consultant he would be an expert in coding and offer his services to others. He also plans on creating  his own software program for artificial intelligence and robotics.

Rainey wants his business to be very successful, similar to the Google headquarters. He wants to also invest in other businesses as well.

Rainey doesn’t want to limit himself to doing just one thing. He wants be able to use his knowledge for computer science to help others and advance our world with his capability’s.

Rainey’s future looks bright and promising. He might be the next Steve Jobs or Bill Gates.

He believes he can achieve all his dreams and he has a few words for all those dreamers out there just like him, “Nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t how hard you hit, it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done”.

Other hobbies of Rainey’s are Muay Thai and video games. He is a newcomer to PC gaming and enjoys all genres of video games. Other than Muay Thai he enjoys Brazilian Ju Jitsu as well and watching MMA. Rainey has the brains and the bronze.

Rainey’s journey will be enough and he just wants people to know one final thing, “It’s a real code world”.