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Last Week's Results
What activities are you participating in at Septemberfest?
- Bogart's Nightclub Presents Live Music 8% (2 votes)
- Blue Sasquatch Medallion Quest 4% (1 votes)
- Classic Car Show 8% (2 votes)
- Dessert Silent Auction 15% (4 votes)
- DCTC Dash - 5K 4% (1 votes)
- McKracken's Pub Volleyball Tourney 4% (1 votes)
- Disc Golf 4% (1 votes)
- Goat Dookie, aka "Lucky Shot" 8% (2 votes)
- Outdoor Movie Night 8% (2 votes)
- Pedal Pull 4% (1 votes)
- Scholarship in a Haystack 12% (3 votes)
- Other 8% (2 votes)
- Unfortunately, I will not be attending... 15% (4 votes)
- Full Results »
September 12, 2009 | 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. | 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Live music presented by Bogart's Nightclub in Apple Valley. Bogart's has lined up two of the top cover bands in the Twin Cities:
September 12, 2009 | 10 a.m. (9 a.m. day-of-race registration)
Anchor Bank Apple Valley is sponsoring a 5K Run/Walk the morning of Septemberfest. The certified course is located on the DCTC Rosemount campus. Lace up your running shoes and race on over.
- Visit DCTC Dash for more detailed information.
September 12, 2009 | 12 p.m.
Two sand courts with referees and loads of prizes for the winners. Sign up your six-person team now for a day of spikes, digs, and Kong blocks.
September 12, 2009 | 12 p.m., 2 p.m., 4 p.m., 6 p.m.
Current and future students search for $500 DCTC scholarship medallions in a massive pile of fresh-cut straw
- Anyone can search and pass on a found medallion to someone looking for cash for a college education at DCTC
- Limit one medallion per person
September 12, 2009 | 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Faculty and staff from DCTC program areas and departments yank on the oven mitts in a no-recipes-barred competition
- Dessert that brings in the most dough wins a catered lunch from Rascals in Apple Valley for up to 20 people
September 12, 2009 | 7 to 9 p.m.
- Featuring the family classic, BABE. "A little pig goes a long way."
September 12, 2009 | 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m., 5 p.m.
Pick your critter and guess the square where that billy or nanny might do his or her natural duty
- It's live-action bingo with a goat-like twist
- 36-square grid; $5 bet per square
- $50 prize for each round's winner
September 12, 2009 | 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Inspired by the elusive nature of Sasquatch, aka Bigfoot, the Blue Sasquatch Medallion Quest is a condensed version of the classic medallion hunt, commencing and concluding during Septemberfest hours.
The custom-made medallion will be hidden on the college's Rosemount campus, and searchers will have from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. to find it. Clues will be issued ever half hour during Septemberfest that will lead medallion hunters ever closer to Blue Sasquatch's favorite bauble.
- The winner will receive a prize package worth nearly $300.
Constitution Day
September 17, 2009
Learn more about the Constitution — the people, the events, the landmark cases
Online Activities
Join the DCTC Weight Watchers at Work Group
Starting September 23rd at 12 p.m.
Two Fall Promotion offers available!
- 12 weeks with a minimum of 15 members required and 8 weeks of free eTools for $156
- 16 weeks + 1 week free with a minimum of 20 members and 19 weeks of free eTools for $175
If interested, contact Nicole Meulemans 651-423-8403 or nicole.meulemans@dctc.edu
Support Our Troops Haunted House
Dakota County Fairgrounds | 4H Building - Farmington, MN
Support local soldiers who are or have been deployed overseas and/or their families by sending care packages, presenting memorials and assisting them as needed to let them know that they "have not been forgotten."
Information and Discounts
- Dates: October 9-10, 2009
- Location: Dakota County Fairgrounds | 4H Building - Farmington, MN
- $5 minimum donations at the door. Other dontations will be cheerfully accepted.
- More Information: Germain Beyl @ 651-460-6004
- www.supportourtroopshh.com
Totally free community festival is way bigger this year
2009 Septemberfest is picking up even more steam as Dakota County Technical College prepares to throw open its Rosemount, Minn., campus to all residents from surrounding communities in the Twin Cities metro area and beyond. This year's Septemberfest will light up the landscape Saturday, Sept. 12, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Read More
Blue Knights now playing home games on Rosemount campus
The Blue Knights women and men's soccer teams are now playing home games on the Dakota County Technical College Rosemount campus. On Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009, they will face the Iowa Western Community College Reivers on the championship field of the brand-new Ames Soccer Complex, which was built through a partnership between DCTC and the city of Rosemount with in-kind service from Ames Construction. Read More
Don't Get Caught in Games of Whac-A-Mole
Develop the right strategies to achieve your goals
While attending a carnival recently, I decided to take a turn at a well-known game called Whac-A-Mole. As most of you probably know, Whac-A-Mole involves earning points for bopping plastic moles on the head with a mallet as they pop up randomly from a set of holes.
I found that I was quick enough to brain the emerging mole only about 50 percent of the time. When I missed, I felt as if the mole were snickering at me like the gopher tormenting Bill Murray in the movie Caddyshack.
Even though I enjoyed playing Whac-A-Mole, I soon saw why the game is often used to describe any repetitious and futile task. Because none of us wishes to get hung up in games of Whac-A-Mole in real life, we need to create the best possible strategies to accomplish our goals.
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