Welcome to Spring 2013

Hello Pre-Dents!

Welcome to Spring Quarter! I hope you all had a wonderful spring break and first week of school. There are a lot of pre-dental events scheduled for this quarter, so there is a lot of look forward to! In the mean time, here is what is included in this week’s news letter:

First Meeting of the Quarter
The first meeting will be happening on Wednesday, April 17, 2013 from 7:00PM-8:00PM. Currently the location is unknown so I'll update you guys on that ASAP! At this meeting we will be discuss specific information about officer elections as well as answering any specific questions you all might have. Carpool lists will be made available and passed around for upcoming conferences and events, and we will be doing a fun manual dexterity exercise. In mentoring groups we plan to discuss and answer any questions about past and future summer plans, which include summer classes, volunteering programs, pre-dental programs, etc.

Shirts and Binders
If you paid member dues and still have not received your PDS t-shirt and binder, please email the gmail account with your name and t-shirt size.  These will be available for you to pick up at the first general meeting.

Volunteering Events 

• Save Our Shores monthly beach clean up: Earth Day- Saturday April 20, 2013
• There are multiple local beach clean ups scheduled on this day in conjugation with Santa Cruz Earth Day Festival. If interested please visit the web site to get more information!
• http://www.saveourshores.org/what-we-do/volunteer-earth-day.php

• CDA Cares Free Dental Clinic: Saturday May 18 & Sunday May 19th at the San Jose Convention Center.
• For more information and to register as a volunteer visit: http://www.cdafoundation.org/Give/Volunteer/CDACaresFreeDentalClinics.aspx 
• PDS will also have a carpooling list for this event, look for more information as the event gets closer!

• Motivation Conference (MC): a 2 1/2-day non-yield outreach program (Friday May 24-Sunday May 26th) that targets underprivileged Asian American/ Pacific Islander (AA/PI) high school students from under resourced and under represented communities. This non-yield outreach program is a student-ran, student-led program that outreaches to students who have not been accepted to the university. MC targets AA/PI high school students who have not thought about higher education as an option, or do not feel that higher education is a space for them.
• MC is looking for general volunteers to help out during the 2 ½ day conference. There are a multitude of volunteer opportunities through this event- if you wish you interact with the students themselves you have the opportunity to do so; if you’d rather do some ‘behind the scenes’ work (food deliver and service, planning committee, poster making, etc) you may choose to do so!
• Meetings are every Monday at 8:00PM @ The SOAR offices
• For more information email apisa.slugs@gmail.com

Tentative events

• Relay for Life (May 2013)
• Forest Restoration (Monthly)
• Tabling in the Quarry (Throughout the quarter)

 Pre-Dental Events/Conferences

•  UoP Pride Day (Same day as SoCal Dental Information Day)
• A day long event at the University of the Pacific Dental school in San Francisco, CA. April 20, 2013 from 9:00AM-3:30PM.
•   Registration for this event is CLOSED
• If you are attending and would like a ride to and from this event, please email the PDS account!
•  SoCal Dental Information Day 2013: Sponsored by UCSF Dental School. On Saturday, April 20th at The Grand- Long Beach Event Center (Longbeach, CA). This will be a great opportunity to network with current dental students, faculty, and admissions representatives from UCSF! The event will include information about the various roles that dentists have, career specialization, how to prepare yourself for admission to DDS program at UCSF, and hands on activities lead by current dental students.
• Here is a link to the registration & information page: http://dentistry.ucsf.edu/node/334  
•  6th Annual Impressions Undergraduate Dental Outreach Conference at the University of California, San Francisco on Saturday, May 4th from 8:00am-5:30pm
• Registration for this event is now CLOSED
• If you are attending and would like a ride to and from the event, please email the PDS account! 

 Until next time slugs!