The Sandbox @ Coastline: Volume 98 - November 14th, 2021

Share Your Story!
Coast District NAHM Survey

National Native American Heritage Month is here! The Coast District will be highlighting students, staff, and faculty of Native American descent that would like to share their stories and successes through a district-wide survey.

Those that choose to participate in the survey can expect to have their responses used across various mediums (social media, newsletters, online) throughout Native American Heritage Month (November 1st- November 30th). Complete the interest form to participate and share your story!

Upcoming National Events:
Celebrating the Culture and Contributions of Native Americans

Native Cinema Showcase (National Museum of the American Indian)
Now - Thursday, November 18th
Various Times
The National Museum of the American Indian’s Native Cinema Showcase is an annual celebration of the best in Native film. This year's showcase focuses on Native people boldly asserting themselves through language, healing, building community, and a continued relationship with the land. Activism lies at the heart of all these stories. The showcase provides a unique forum for engagement with Native filmmakers from Indigenous communities throughout the Western Hemisphere and Arctic.
Online - View Full Showcase Schedule

The Art of Looking: Kay WalkingStick, il sogno del cortile (The Courtyard Dream) (National Gallery of Art)
Friday, November 19th
10:00am - 11:00am (PST)
In honor of American Indian Heritage Month, Kay WalkingStick's il sogno del cortile (The Courtyard Dream) is the inspiration for this interactive conversation. Join us and share your observations, interpretations, questions, and ideas, and build on your own first impressions to broaden your understanding of this work of art. This session lasts one hour and is completely interactive. National Gallery educators will facilitate the conversation to create an environment for shared learning. These conversations will encourage you to engage deeply with art, with others, and with the world around you as you hone skills in visual literacy and perspective-taking.
Register Online via Zoom

Coming Together for Transgender Awareness:
A Week of Action, Celebration, and Remembrance

From GLAAD.org: The week before Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20, people and organizations around the country participate in Transgender Awareness Week to help raise the visibility of transgender people and address issues members of the community face.

Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), is an annual observance on November 20 that honors the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence that year.

What is Transgender Awareness Week?

Transgender Awareness Week is a week when transgender people and their allies take action to bring attention to the community by educating the public about who transgender people are, sharing stories and experiences, and advancing advocacy around the issues of prejudice, discrimination, and violence that affect the transgender community.

What is Transgender Day of Remembrance?

Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) was founded by transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honor her memory of Rita Hester, a transgender woman who was killed in 1998. The vigil commemorated all the transgender people lost to violence that year and began an important memorial that has become the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance.

Participate in TDOR by attending or organizing a vigil on November 20th to honor all those whose lives were lost to anti-transgender violence that year. Vigils are typically hosted by local transgender advocates or LGBTQ organizations and held at community centers, parks, places of worship, and other venues. The vigil often involves reading a list of the names of those who died that year.

Learn more about Transgender Awareness Week and what you can do to participate and help raise awareness for transgender rights by visiting GLAAD.org/transweek.

Resources for Transgender People

Transgender people in crisis should contact the following resources:

The Trevor Project's 24/7/365 Lifeline at 866-4-U-TREVOR (866-488-7386) or TrevorChat, their online instant messaging option, or TrevorText, a text-based support option. If you are looking for peer support, you can visit TrevorSpace from anywhere in the world.
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255)
Trans Lifeline at 877-565-8860
Do you live outside the United States? If so, check out The Trevor Project's list of international resources here.

Happening Now:
Student Design Contest

Flex your creative muscles and design a beach towel to be sold in the new Coastline shop, The Pier!

The Coastline Marketing Department is running our third student design contest, and this time we're looking for beach towels! At Coastline here in beautiful Southern California, our beaches are open and busy year-round - we need some beach towel designs so you can show your Coastline pride while relaxing on the coast! Design a beach towel to be sold in The Pier as part of Coastline’s Student-Designed Collection!

At Coastline we're known as the Leader of Innovative Education. We also just launched a brand-new conservation initiative focusing on caring for our coasts and the wildlife that inhabits them - particularly our namesake, dolphins. Create a design that can be featured on a beach towel centering around this tagline and the message of caring for our coastal habitats and wildlife! Need some help getting started? Check out the contest's event page for some great concept questions and ideas!

Giving Tuesday: Help a Coastline Student Reach their Goal

Giving Tuesday is a global movement built by individuals, families, organizations, and communities, who come together to participate in 24 hours of unprecedented nonprofit giving. It is an opportunity for people around the world to come together to thank, help, give, show kindness, and share what they have with those in need. It's your chance to make a real difference, right here in our own community.

On Tuesday, November 30^th, Coastline College is participating in #GivingTuesday, and would like to invite community members, alumni and employees and to contribute to and support students in need.

Coastline students continue to be affected by the economic impact of COVID-19. Vulnerable students need financial assistance for food, rent, basic necessities, childcare, textbooks, tuition and more. Your donation, on Giving Tuesday, can help these students stay on track to empower their lives and enable them to make a difference in our communities.

Last Day!
In the Coastline Gallery: Space, Time | Repeat

Join the Coastline Art Gallery for their latest virtual exhibition, the first of the 2021-2022 school year!

For this series of virtual exhibitions, we have reached out to members of the community, all of which have been engaged in art-making for quite some time. This first collection of five artists all work within their genre to express thoughts on a variety of subject matters through the medium of paint and sculpture. From abstraction through realism, into non-representational art, each artists' expression is true to their vision for their own space and time. You will discover that art can transport you to the past while being provocatively suggestive through simplicity, detritus reassembled can once again creep through your life, overlooked aspects of landscape are once again highlighted, and quite often ART can transport you into the realm of abstraction. Read more on the Coastline Art Gallery Blog.

Today is the last day of the exhibition, so be sure to check it out before it ends!

ASG Vacancies Still Available!
Join Today!

Coastline's Associated Student Government (ASG) is still accepting applications for Committee Representative positions! A Committee Representative is a low-time commitment position and a great involvement opportunity! Committee Representatives are non-voting ASG members that attend participatory governance committees on behalf of ASG. Requirements include attending the assigned College/District Committee meetings, and attending one ASG meeting a month—that’s about 4 hours total, a month!

Vacant committees include:

Student Services Wing
PIEAC
Budget
Technology

For more information, please contact ASG Advisor, Kasie Hipp, or visit the ASG website!

Health Services Available to Coastline Students

Did you know that Health Services are provided to Coastline students through a contractual agreement with the Golden West College and Orange Coast College Health Centers?

Learn about the health services available to Coastline students through the OCC and GWC Health Centers by checking out the above video (click on the image) featuring recent virtual presentations by OCC and GWC Health Center Directors, Kelly Daly and Dr. Judy Cheng (for information about OCC jump to 1:46, for GWC jump to 20:29). Students can visit the Health Services page for requirements and more information!

Crux Essay Contest:
Turn that A Into Cash!

Have you received an 'A' on an essay written for ANY class at Coastline? Enter it in Crux, Coastline's new essay contest, for an opportunity to earn $400 for your achievement! Applications are accepted from now until November 30, 2020. The winning entry in each category will receive an award of $400. Essays of any length will be considered. You may enter in more than one category, but you may only win in one category. Winning essays will also be featured in Coastline College's Arts and Letters Magazine, StoryLine!

Careers In the Headlines:
Supply Chain Management

If you live anywhere near the Los Angeles coast, you are no stranger to the field of ships dotting the shoreline as they wait to enter the clogged Port of Los Angeles. There are also two words that you more than likely have read over and over: Supply Chain. But what is Supply Chain Management and WHY is it such an issue right now? More importantly - what can YOU do to be part of the solution?

Logistics/Supply Chain Management involves every aspect of purchasing, transportation, storage, and distribution of goods from manufacturers to consumers. Did you know that students with a two-year degree in the supply chain field earn, on average, over $77,000/year? Candidates with four-year degrees in supply chain management fields average over $126,000/year.

Through special funding, Coastline students can now join the premier supply chain management association, CSCMP, for free! This membership is a $40/year value, brought to you by Strong Workforce Program funding, Powered by California Community Colleges. This membership is provided to you because companies are desperately seeking students with supply chain management education and experience.

As a CSCMP student member, through the Southern California Roundtable, you gain access to networking with local employers, opportunities to tour companies, and chances to learn more about the many roles, jobs, and industries that are part of Supply Chain Management.

Contact Erin Thomas, Associate Business Professor, Coastline College, to obtain membership and conference registration instructions, and to answer any questions.

From the Coastline College Blog:
Coastline Smash Tournament Recap 2021

By Max Lamare

Coastline Esports Club held a Smash Tournament over Halloween Weekend! Superb Competition took place between the players and was fantastic viewing for spectators.

Coastline esports held an awesome SMASH tournament at its Westminster campus over the past weekend. This tournament was held in the classic round robin style. A Round Robin tournament is a competition in which each contestant meets all other contestants in turn. This gives the players a chance to fight their opponents and friends multiple times within the tournament. Fans get the pleasure of viewing excellent matchups and the occasional upset by various players. As I was both a fan and a player in the tournament, the atmosphere inside of the event was both electric and intense. Just like a regular sporting event, the crowd gathered to cheer on our esport athletes as they went to battle with each other. At this event, we had our own shoutcaster giving us the play-by-play. In fact, he’s a Coastline student, and he goes by the screen name JayLunatic. Jay is an excellent shoutcaster with tons of energy and enthusiasm. I hope to see him shoutcasting professional esports events someday. We also had a giant -- I mean seriously huge -- projector screen for spectators. The tournament was also being streamed on our Twitch channel for people at home to watch.

This figure of speech, which refers to someone giving someone a gift and then taking it away, is derogatory — and not factual. Ironically, it was the U.S. government who redistributed stolen Native American land to them and then continued to usurp it in violation of treaties.
Read more about the misconceptions, microaggressions, stereotypes, and racism that indigenous people endure in the 2018 TeenVogue article How Racism Against Native People Is Normalized, From Mascots to Costumes by Heather Davidson.