Heal the Bay: Santa Monica Beach Clean Up

On Sunday September 14, 2008 - CSUF and UCR PBL participated in the Heal the Bay program Santa Monica Beach! Early in the morning we set out to clean the beach and help the environment. It was surprising to find so many cigarette butts , glass bottles and plastic! . In the 2 hrs that we volunteered, my team and I found over 65 cigarette butts, and 20+ glass pieces!! Other teams found more!

We were amazed that we found so much glass in the sand. In one instance, Michelle found a big piece of glass sticking out from the sand , and when we started digging further we kept finding more and more glass. We spent about 10 minutes in that spot digging up all the big and tiny pieces of glass. That glass could have cut someone on the beach!I was surprised by the severeness of the problem and saddened that all of that goes into the ocean and possibly hurt marine life.

Oher items that we found ranged from food wrappers to bottle caps and even clothes. I am happy that in a small way PBL was able to make a difference. Its satisfying to know that we might have saved a little kid from cutting his foot with glass in the sand, or toxic cigarettes going into the Ocean.

After the clean up- we all ate at Bucca Di Beppo and enjoyed the Santa Monica Pier. Michelle, Diana, Victor, Yari and myself even rode the Ferris wheel!

Thanks again to all the volunteers to came out and helped out to Heal The Bay.

Jackie Perez

President

PBL 101 a Success!

Hello Awesome PBL'ers!

Yesterday was PBL 101 - and we had a great turn-out! We filled up the room! I was excited to see so many people interested in our organization! We are definitely in for a great semester!

Remember that we have a couple of events coming up- The beach clean up with UCR PBL , and our bonfire! If you want more info about either of those events please let me know!

We also have an office position available for anyone that is interested. I encourage you to apply for our Executive Assistant position to get involved in all of the behind-the-scenes work that takes to run CSUF PBL and to make a difference in our chapter.

Next week we will be having a guest speaker!! He will be speaking about Sales Leadership!! We hope to see you all there!!

Jackie Perez

President

Tabling and Discoverfest!

For the past two weeks, the dedicated CSUF PBL officer team has been tabling outside of the new Mihaylo Hall and in the quad during Discoverfest to recruit new members!!   

We are all very excited to see so many new and interested people stop by our table to learn more about what PBL has to offer! 

Our first meeting - also known as PBL 101- will be next wednesday Sept 10 at 4pm in Gilman AB in the TSU! We are looking forward to seeing and meeting alot of new people!

The officer team is working hard in putting together a great year for everyone! Please take a look at our calendar on the right column for our upcoming events including: 

1. Santa Monica Beach clean up with UCR on Sept. 14th

2. PBL Bonfire! with Crafton Hills College, Fullerton College, and other PBL chapters from Southern California on Sept 20th @ Huntington Beach.

Also, make sure to join our facebook group so that you can get updates and invitations to our upcoming events! You can find our facebook link on the right column aswell. :D

If you have any questions or are interested in joining!  Please contact me! @ jackieperez@csufpbl.org!