More Than a Test Score

This is Reymark, the winner of the A Better World Zinch Health Scholarship! He is passionate about becoming a doctor to be able to help people, especially children:

Where did you hear about Zinch and the “A Better World Zinch Health Scholarship”?
I learned about Zinch from a program I am in called the I Have a Dream Program, which I have been a part of for 8 years now. I did not hear from anyone about the Zinch Health Scholarship but I searched for it on my own and I found it through the search scholarships in Zinch.

What was your reaction when you found out that you had won the “A Better World Zinch Health Scholarship?”
My reaction when I received the scholarship was shocking. I couldn’t believe that I had won it because a lot of people applied for it also. I was proud of myself when I had won it also because I’ve been applying for scholarships and this is one of the first I have won.

What was your parents reaction?
My parents reaction to me winning the scholarship was exciting. They were so proud of me winning the scholarship because they knew this would help me in college.

What college do you want to go to and why?
My number one choice college that I want to go to is St. Mary’s College. I want to go to this college because it is a small college, it offers my major that I want to obtain, it is located near my home, it really supports students in need of financial aid, and offers a lot of activities and programs for student life.

How are you going to make the world a better world?
I am going to make the world a better place by pursuing my dream to become a doctor. This will help better the world because I truly want to help people, especially children. I have had opportunities to intern at hospitals and clinics and I have enjoyed every moment working there. Being a doctor, I want to truly connect and bond with people and truly get to help them with anything.

How are you more than a test score?
I am more than a test score because during my first two years of high school I struggled. I struggled because I had always gone to public schools and had never had the motivation to succeed and it was hard for me to adjust at first. During my Junior year, I was truly supported from a program I am in called Boys Hope Girls Hope and I Have a Dream. They helped me by providing me with tutors who truly want me to succeed and provided activities and study sessions to help my work ethics. Progressively my GPA has increased and I am able to balance out tennis with school.

Here is our winner for the A Better World Zinch Health Scholarship:

Reymark Renigen!

Here’s a little bit about him:

“My passion is medicine. I aspire to be a pediatrician. I recently participated in Stanford’s Medical Youth Science Program, I attended professional medical lectures, learned anatomy and physiology, worked with cadavers, interned at the Veteran’s Affair prosthetic lab, and experienced college life for 5 weeks. Yeah, it was exhausting but fun! Last summer, I interned at San Francisco General Hospital working and learning about AIDS. I enjoy hanging out with friends, music, playing sports, books, chatting on the phone, and watching movies. I am focused on what I do and driven to achieve my goals.”

Congrats to Reymark! We will be announcing the Winner of the Born in ’92 scholarship next Wednsday (Sept. 23, 2009) , so check back for a winner!

Picture this you are jamming out to your tunes while hanging on a Friday night and you friend decides to do some outrageous stunt. You gotta capture it on film. So you just use your new iPod nano. That is if you have the latest Apple iPod with video capability.

The new iPod Nano is available now in both 8GB and 16GB versions and they are only costing $149 & $179 respectively.

This new device has all sorts of killer new features including…

-          Video

-          Radio

-          Voice over

-          Pedometer

Apple has also made the downloading of your videos quick and easy by allowing you to upload video to YouTube, Facebook and MobileMe when you sych your ipod. So now you can not only easily record but can share all the awesome videos you record.

Apple has done good with this product by combining easy access to social media networks, using an already establish product and offering it at an affordable price. It is a steal!

One of the greatest things is to play your favorite tune and to really pump it up. It just makes you feel good. So it is a total bummer when that parent figure in your life tells you turn it down. Well now you have some amo to combat the suggestion to turn down the tunes.

London’s The Daily Mail wrote a list of “bad” things that can actually be good for you. The Daily Mail says that blasting your music loud is a good way to stimulate your brain.

According to researchers at Manchester University, the brain is stimulated into releasing feel good hormones that can make you calm, happy and responsive during and after you listen to your music. To get a little nerdier, the part of the ear that is stimulated is called the sacculus which responds to the beat of the music.

Now the question is…how loud should you play your music, without making your hearing like your 90 year old grandma? The sacculus only responds to volumes above 90 decibels. Which is about as loud as a hair dryer.  So keep your music at about that level and you won’t hurt your precious ear drums and will still get the feel good from your tunes.

Now when you get the command to turn down your music you have some science to back up reasons why it really is good for you.

For other “bad” things that can actually be good for you check out this site. Who would have thought that video games could boost metabolism?

With an iPhone and the Penn & Teller app you can be a magician instantly and impress your friends with you celebrity connections. With this magic trick you tell your friends that you know Penn and Teller, the famous magicians. You tell them that you can set up a chat with either Penn or Teller and that they can guess the card that they choose.

You friend picks a card. You hand them the iPhone with the chat set up and they ask “What card did I pick?” Penn or Teller will respond and identify the card that your friend chose. It is magic!

Want to know how it is done? Easy. When you get into the application it has a listing of every card that exists in a deck of cards.  You simply choose what card your friend did and then hand them the phone and Penn & Teller’s app does the rest.

This is a sweet way to impress your friends so start your magician career today by checking out the Penn & Teller iPhone app.