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.
Members of the Student Occupational Therapy Association supported Alzheimer's research by joining in the Memory Walk sponsored by the American Alzheimer's Association.