Date posted: July 16, 2018
This spring our Environment and Our Community course students put what they learned in the previous two quarters into practice by teaming up with Forterra to complete a 6-week service learning project doing environmental stewardship at Idylwood Park. It is an excellent opportunity to use their knowledge of habitats, flora, fauna, and pollution to be ...more about Environmental Stewardship at Idylwood Park
Date posted: July 6, 2018
This spring students in the Office Procedures and Customer Service class enjoyed a group activity working in small groups to assemble the phrases in a way that completes the sentence, "Customer service means _____." The objective was to help students understand the meaning of serving customers. A few examples included: Doing ordinary things extraordinarily well ...more about What Customer Service Means
Date posted: July 5, 2018
4th year OLS Student Raha completed her internship at Bellevue College IBest and Basic and Transitional Studies as an Office Clerk and Filing Intern. She shares part of her experience below: How does what you did or learned at your internship fit in with your career goals? Definitely doing a lot more filing than what ...more about Internship: IBest and Basic and Transitional Studies
Date posted: July 5, 2018
OLS Bellevue College Student and 2018 Special Olympics USA Games athlete Garrett Utz recently got to hang out with Jordan Morris of the Seattle Sounders FC as part of a series of videos put together by Visit Seattle. The videos featured Special Olympians talking with pro athletes from the Seattle area about the power of ...more about Garrett Utz Talks Support With Jordan Morris
Date posted: July 3, 2018
4th year OLS student Andy completed his internship with the Washington State Archives Puget Sound Regional Branch. He shares his thoughts on his experience below. How does what you did or learned at your internship fit in with your career goals? I like being one of the people responsible for physical inventory management, as in ...more about Internship: Washington State Archives
Date posted: July 3, 2018
A few OLS students attended the annual Bellevue College Student Life Summer Retreat at Camp Casey in June. Camp Casey is an overnight camp where students are encouraged to build relationships and trust within a group environment, all while learning about their own strengths, values, and leadership styles. At the retreat students learn fundamental leadership ...more about Student Stories: Student Life Summer Retreat
Date posted: June 25, 2018
In Critical Thinking through Media, students learn how they are being influenced by the media. During the course they learn the different persuasion techniques used by marketers to encourage them to buy their product. For their final project, students create a commercial that advertises the OLS program. The commercial allows them to speak of their ...more about Student Stories: OLS Commericals
Date posted: June 21, 2018
The Community Activity in Critical Thinking through Science was the annual visit from Dr. Anthony Tessandori, from the Bellevue College Anthropology Department. As always, Dr. Tessandori brought along an impressive array of model skulls (which he created on a 3-D printer) to show the evolution of homo sapiens from our ancestors. To their stories, he ...more about Student Stories: Visit from Dr. Anthony Tessandori
Date posted: June 18, 2018
3rd year students completed mock interviews May 2. In class they reviewed interviewers’ comments and reflected on their mock interview experience. Talk about one thing you learned about yourself after participating in the Mock Interviews: I learned that it is important to be yourself and shorter responses. That I am a warm person …. that ...more about Student Stories: Mock Interview Reflections
Date posted: June 15, 2018
Hi everyone, Many of you may have heard that Marci Muhlestein is leaving OLS on Friday after 10 years of service. What you may not know are her many accomplishments. I have worked with Marci for 8 years and witnessed firsthand not only her accomplishments, but how she navigated BC through positive relationships and win/win ...more about Farewell To One Of The Best
