Dallas Communication Initiative Announces Teachers’ Conference
http://www.smu.edu/News/EventListing/20090808-teachers-conference.aspx
http://www.neighborsgo.com/stories/40030
2009 McGuire Center for Ethics Intern to work with Kallarisunchis Microfinance Firm in Cusco, Peru
http://smu.edu/ethicscenter/students/interns_list.asp
Summer Research Associate with The Council on Hemispheric Affairs in Washington D.C.
http://www.coha.org/intern-list/
Global Ethanol Summit Highlights Muddled U.S. Policy
http://www.coha.org/2009/06/global-ethanol-summit-points-to-us-incongruence/
http://sugarcaneblog.com/2009/06/03/global-ethanol-summit-highlights-muddled-u-s-policy/
Mexican Midterm Elections: The Reemergence of the PRI
http://www.coha.org/2009/07/mexican-midterm-elections-the-reemergence-of-the-pri/
http://laprensa-sandiego.org/stories/mexican-midterm-elections-the-reemergence-of-the-pri/
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0907/S00352.htm
War on Drugs: Not Too Big to Fail
http://cohaforum.blogspot.com/2009/07/war-on-drugs-not-too-big-to-fail-coha.html
COHA Responds to the UN World Drug Report
http://www.coha.org/2009/06/coha-responds-to-the-un-world-drug-report/
http://www.theglobalreport.org/index2.php?section=archives&cat_id=188&article_id=7793
The Jack C. and Annette K. Vaughn Foreign Service and International Affairs Internship
http://smu.edu/tower/fellowships/students.asp
$5,000 Grant in 2009 from SMU Big iDeas Program to Launch “The Dallas Communication Initiative”
http://www.smu.edu/News/2008/big-ideas-13march2009.aspx
Articles in the SMU Daily Campus
Op-Ed on Mexican Orphanage
Op-Ed on Reflection
On The Problem of Evil – in Response to Ken Ueda’s “Ask and Atheist!”
Interview as Leader of SMU Day of Silence
Op-Ed Expressing the Position of Pro-Life
Roommate and Mock Trial Teammate Michael Sheets Refutes Abortion Article
http://smu.edu/univhonors/Hilltopics/issues/volume5/5-5.pdf
Impassioned Appeal to Student Senate on Behalf of Mock Trial
President of SMU Triathlon Club
http://smu.edu/recsports/clubsports/triathlon/Site/Officers.html
1st Place in Age Group in Toyota U.S. Open Triathlon Short Course, 51st Overall
http://www.athlinks.com/results/63914/103415/20326762/Toyota-US-Open-Triathlon.aspx
Elected Mock Trial Vice President of Membership
http://people.smu.edu/mocktrial/members.html
Interview by SMU Magazine
http://blog.smu.edu/smumagazine/2008/12/international_internships.html
“While working in the Mexican orphanage, Elledge was impressed with its employees, who devote their lives to serving others in need. Back in Dallas, he plans to tutor English as a Second Language students and work with the homeless downtown. He says he tries to follow Albert Einstein’s words: ‘Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.’
‘My experiences have changed my thinking about jobs and employment,’ he says. ‘I thought about going to law school, but now there are a lot of alternatives I never considered before.’”
Orphanage Experience Covered in the Frisco Star
http://smu.edu/newsinfo/excerpts/maguire-8july2008.asp
“The simple life of working hard was more relaxing than any vacation could have been after a long year of school,” he said. “Next year I’d like to go back again for a week just to visit all the kids.”
“Happiness is not found in money or reputation n it’s just being content,” he said. “If you feel like you’re having a bad day, just be grateful for showers with clean water and sleep without flies on your face.”
“I had never included living in Mexico with your family and running an orphanage as a career, but if that is a career, my options might be broader than I thought,” he said. “I have a desire to help people and to use my talents to the utmost while I live.”
2008 McGuire Center for Ethics Intern to Rancho3M Christian Orphanage and School
http://smu.edu/ethicscenter/students/interns_list.asp
Class of 2011 Southern Methodist University President’s Scholar
http://smu.edu/ps/Current_Scholars/profiles/nelledge.asp
Coca-Cola Scholar, top 250 of 88,000, in April 2007
https://www.coca-colascholars.org/cokeWeb/content/com.ccsf.website.pages.PageMedia/2140/2007AR_F.pdf
Curriculum, The Art of Interpretation, Published in January 2007
Book Review
http://eho.org/reviews/individual_review2.asp?revid=2795
Book for Sale
http://www.instituteforculturalcommunicators.org/store/details.aspx?id=5
http://www.exodusbooks.com/author.aspx?id=4530
http://christian-book-store.christiansunite.com/author/Nicholas-R.-Elledge/
Berean High School Junior Sweeps to Victory, Earns $18k Scholarship in American Legion Oratorical Contest
http://www.legionnews.org/whatsnew/releases_story?id=351
NCFCA 2005 National Sweepstakes, Original Oratory, Dramatic Interp Champion
Knoxville News Sentinel
7/20/2005
Alyssa and Nick Elledge, both homeschooled, recently returned from the National Christian Forensics and Communication Association Speech Competition. This is the fourth year they have attended the competition.
Nick received numerous awards, including a national first-place finish in the Sweepstakes in Individual Events. Competing in five events, Nick placed first in Original Oratory, first in Dramatic Interpretation, third in Open Interpretation and seventh in Humorous Interpretation. Because of his sweepstakes win, Nick received a four-year, full-tuition scholarship to Liberty University in Virginia.
Alyssa received a $1,000 scholarship for her accomplishments in speaking.She has also been selected as an intern for Communicators for Christ, which is a group that travels throughout the country, teaching communication skills to school-age kids.
