Student Awards & Organizations

Student Award Winners

Congratulations to our December 2008 MOT graduates who were selected for the following School of Occupational Therapy awards:

Academic, sponsored by Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana: Katie Nightingale
Leadership, co-sponsored by American Senior Communities and Debby DeGroot-Toth, Westview Therapy Clinic: Amy Jarecki and Candice Thompson
Research, sponsored by UIndy Student Occupational Therapy Association: Ricka Goodwin, Corri Hall, Amy Jarecki, Raetta Landino, Kyung Lee, Tasha Stahly, Swati Patel, and Lindsey Tharp
Service, sponsored by Easter Seals Crossroads: Megan Meadors

Student Occupational Therapy Association
The Student Occupational Therapy Association (SOTA) at University of Indianapolis is comprised of Occupational Therapy students. Members of SOTA are active in the community and on campus through a variety of service projects, fund raisers, community awareness activities, as well as social events. Several recent examples of SOTA at work include:

-Community Events

Programming at local high schools educates students on common disabilities and impairments seen in Occupational Therapy. SOTA members provide the students with opportunities to see how life would be to live with a disability. Adaptive and compensative methods for activity completion and independent living are also illustrated.

Community support through various walks/runs including the AIDS run/walk, Jingle Bell run/walk for arthritis, and the Race for the Cure run/walk.

-Campus Events

"Ice cream social" provides a campus-wide, stress-relief break for students, is sponsored by SOTA. This is just the time-out students need as final exams approach!

Guest speakers are sponsored to discuss professional issues related to Occupational Therapy.

-Social Events

Members of SOTA also sponsor several fun, relaxed social events throughout the school year. Some past events have included pizza parties during the lunch hour, a picnic the weekend prior to the beginning of school to welcome new students, a Holiday party at the completion of first semester to provide some MUCH needed relief after finals, and group outings to various sporting events.

-SOTA Faculty Advisor: Kate DeCleene, decleenek@uindy.edu