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Academic Excellence Showcase is an all-day conference style event that we hold every spring 

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in which Western Oregon University students get to display

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the amazing work that they're doing here within their discipline 

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ranging from artwork, to research papers to productions.

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And share the tremendous talent that they have.

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Being a part of Academic Excellence Showcase

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means that I'm able to actually apply civic engagement

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in the real world. To show others that it's easy to make change, it's easy to be involved.

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My presentation for Academic Excellence Showcase is on civic engagement.

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and how you can build your resume, better the community and help those in need.

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This event is enormously important for Western Oregon University.

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And it's a tradition that we've been participating in for over 10 years.

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It's also a Capstone experience for a lot of our 

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seniors and juniors as they are going to move on to

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careers within these academic fields that they are getting degrees on.

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My presentation today for academic showcase

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is about QR Factorization and the algorithms of which to obtain them.

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I specifically looked at comparing tile algorithms first panel.

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Being a part of the academic showcase means to me that I get

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to show what I've accomplished over the past year as well as my entire degree.

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This event allows over 400 students to 

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engage in producing professional-style, conference presentations. 

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My presentation today for academic excellence was on John Rawls theory of justice.

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Specifically, my intent was to describe the problem of distributive justice  

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in a democracy. Being a part of academic showcase today 

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enabled me to take some of the concepts I learned in class

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and actually speak about them and have feedback from my students.   

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This is the culmination of everything I've worked for 

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throughout my time at Western.  And I know now that I will be finishing up my degree.

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