NKBA and GE Charette Competition 2011

Students submitted projects to a national Kitchen and Bath competition and many of our students placed in the competition. 

Bathroom: 

1^st place: Alexis Cannariato

 2^nd place: Kimberly Fetzer

Honorable Mention: Jennifer McKell

Kitchen:

Honorable Mention: Rebecca Butikofer 

GE Charette: 

4^th place: Courtney Simper

 5^th place: Jennifer McKell

  

Announcement ceremony

Kevin Eutsler of Dyno Nobel Inc.

Kevin Eutsler is a Senior Training Manager for Dyno Nobel Inc. He showed students the various personality types and how to interact with one another. He gave tips on how to read people and to adjust your work habits to work with someone of another personality type. The four personalities types are the guardians, the idealists, the artisans, and the rationals. Each of the personalities has different characteristics, values, and motto's that make up who they are. Learning about each of these personalities helps us to better understand people and allows is to better communicate and interact with every personality.

Kevin gave us four basic communication rules:


1. I spoke without thinking is totally untrue
2. Listening is under-valued, under-learned, and under-utilized
3. Who I am dictates How I am; How I am dictates What I do
4. We don’t see the world as it is; we see the world as we are

Meditation and Mindfulness by Gary Purse

Gary Purse from the BYU-Idaho Religion department and Gwenaelle Couliard a BYU-Idaho counselor came and met with students to discuss the benefits and techniques of meditation. Meditation is a beneficial practice that can help students to eliminate stress from their lives. “Neuroscientists have found that meditators shift their brain activity to different areas of the cortex - brain waves in the stress-prone right frontal cortex move to the calmer left frontal cortex. This mental shift decreases the negative effects of stress, mild depression and anxiety. The researchers found that the meditators showed a pronounced shift in activity to the left frontal lobe. In other words, they were calmer and happier than before.” (The Benefits of Meditation: Psychology Today, by Colin Allen, Apr 24 '03).
Other meditation benefits include:
 -Increases activation of left frontal regions, which lifts mood (Davidson 2004).  
 -Decreases stress-related cortisol (Tang et al. 2007).
 -Strengthens the immune system (Davidson et al. 2003; Tang et al. 2007).
 -Helps a variety of medical conditions, including cardiovascular disease, asthma, type II diabetes, PMS, and chronic pain (Walsh and Shapiro 2006). 
 -Helps numerous psychological conditions, including insomnia, depression, anxiety, phobias, and eatingdisorders (Walsh and Shapiro 2006)(http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/06/mindfulness-as-good-as-antidepressant-drugs-study-says/)

 Emily Thompson, owner of Cure Touch Massage Therapy, conducted a workshop with students to teach them proper massage techniques and the positive effects it can have on one’s body. 

Christmas Social 2010

For our annual Christmas social, students decorated and wrote Christmas cards for a local nursing home. Students also volunteered to deliver the cards and visit with the residents of the home. We also had an ugly sweater contest and students and faculty participated in Christmas karaoke. 

Ugly Sweater Winners: Alexis Cannariato, Matt Swope, Elizabeth Lovejoy, Kaylee Garber

Our Great DJ Matt Swope

2007 Graduates

Kathryn Evans, Summer Findley, Brittany Ruch, all graduates of BYU-Idaho’s Interior Design program. The graduates came to talk to students about life after graduation, the process of finding a job, and the differences of working on school projects and working on real life projects. They also gave students pointers on do’s and don’ts for the work place. 

Connie Edwards of Waypoint Living Spaces

 Connie Edwards, CKD, CBD has spent more than thirty years in the kitchen and bath Industry. She is Director of Design for Waypoint Living Spaces.
Connie was invited to come and lecture as well as be a judge for our GE Charette student competition. She shared her design insights with students by showing many projects she has worked on. Connie also showed us many examples of her company’s cabinetry designs. She also explained the process it takes to stage a set or home for her magazine.

GE Charette 2010

BYU-Idaho students participated in GE Charette a student kitchen design competition that NKBA holds annually. Students have three hours to design, draft, and render their concept of a kitchen according to NKBA standards. The three winners’ projects are then sent to a national competition.
The three winners were: Courtney Simper 1st, Jennifer Mckel 2nd, Natalie Hess 3rd.

 

Courtney Simper

 Jennifer Mckel

 Natalie Hess