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Backyard Campout by a group stargaze. Getting ready to resource to also connect students with
National Wildlife Federation Makes camp out is half the fun, and the National volunteer opportunities.
Fun Easy Wildlife Federation puts everyone in “Volunteer experience is becoming
touch with every tip they need. increasingly important, and often a pre-
Browsing the organization’s website requisite in the scholarship application
turns up tips for packing, camping with process,” notes Amanda Joyner, vice pres-
kids, erecting a tent, building a camp- ident and general manager of FastWeb.
fire and planning the menu. Suggested Internships help students enhance their
games and activities even extend to candidacy for scholarships and college
campfire songs. Options include sign- admission, and can lay the groundwork
ing up to join a larger group at a favorite for entry into the workplace.
campsite. Membership is free to students.
Find everything at NWF.org/Back- Connect with opportunities at FastWeb.
yardCampout; click on Ready to Camp. com and FastWeb.com/fastweb/resourc-
es/volunteer.
“I never knew spending the whole day Resume Rep
outside could be so fun,” declared one FastWeb Helps Scholarship E-Transport
gleeful 7-year-old daughter, hugging her Seekers Zippy Electric Commuter Bikes
dad. Families across the country have
been gathering to pitch a tent, take a FastWeb.com, the Internet’s leading
hike, spot wildlife and roast marshmal- scholarship search service, helps stu-
lows around the campfire, topped off dents make the decisions that shape
their lives: choosing a college, funding
tuition, and finding jobs and career-
launching internships. Last year, one
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seniors used the site, which lists 600,000
scholarships and insights into 3,600
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colleges.
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dent of the National Association for Col- While soaring pump prices raise even
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lege Admission Counseling. “It provides mass transit fares and Oslo-based Think
high school members with materials that Global prepares to mass market its
simplify the counselor’s role in managing $25,000 electric cars—with a range of
the confusing and time-consuming, but 110 miles per charge—electric com-
critical, information.” muter bikes, good for 10 miles, or up to
This year, the site went further, 25 miles if using it only for uphill assists,
launching its FastWeb Volunteers are picking up speed. More good news
is that Currie Technologies’ Mongoose
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