OPT Visionary - Fall 2016

18 • NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY Cycle for Sight Focuses Attention on Visual Impairme nt The college’s American Optometric Student Association (AOSA) chapter did an excellent job of bringing the NSU community together by participating in the World Sight Day Challenge for 2015—Cycle for Sight. World Sight Day is an annual awareness event held on the second Thursday of October to focus global attention on blindness and vision impairment. The event is coordinated by the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness as part of the VISION 2020 Global Initiative. It is supported by eye health organizations around the world, including Optometry Giving Sight, and is included on the official World Health Organization calendar. The AOSA’s mission is to promote and advance the profes- sional education and ideals of optometry students, to support and strengthen its members on the local and national level, and to ensure measures necessary for meet- ing the future needs of the association and the profession. u Student Segment From left: Cycle for Sight board officers Aaron Thomas (past AOSA trustee); Melissa Zaleski (AOSA trustee); Mahdi Hedayat (AOSA treasurer); Paven Korotana (AOSA trustee-elect); Shelby Rockwell (AOSA secretary); and Sara Rasekhi (AOA/PAC liaison and Florida Optometric Association president) AOSA members celebrate the conclusion of another rewarding World Sight Day Challenge.