User:Coopdujour

Josh Cooper was born in Manhasset, New York on October 7, 1988 to Adam and Elena Cooper, of Long Beach, NY. Josh currently lives in Smithtown, NY and attends the State University of New York at Albany and is a psychology major. He plans to graduate in 2010 and continue for a Master's degree by 2011, and PhD in the future. Josh graduated from Oceanside High School of the Oceanside School District in June, 2006. In high school, he was President of OHS Botany Club, Vice President of Hebrew Culture Club, and a photographer for Spindrift 2006 (yearbook) and the Sider Press (school publication)

Josh used the pseudonym "Coop Du Jour" for a short while. This may be understood by thinking that at a restaurant, when you get soup, you ask for the "soup of the day" or "soup du jour" and Josh is the "coop of the day" ("coop du jour.")

Josh recently completed a virtual tour of Oceanside High School which has been deemed by the administration as a security issue so it will not be posted on the school's public website, but the principal and superintendent enjoyed viewing a virtual tour of the high school.

Josh is a junior at the University at Albany, of the State University of New York system.

Josh regards all of his teachers, professors and classmates with the utmost respect.

In summer of 2007, Josh worked at Allied Central Alarms, as a dispatcher. He doesn't plan on going back there.

Josh helped out by adding Dr. Boardman's history in his words to the Oceanside, NY link on Wikipedia.

Josh attended the 75th, 76th and 77th annual conventions of the BioCommunications Association, Inc. and gave presentations on iLife and VR Tours, respectively in 2005 and 2006 in Portland, OR and Knoxville, TN, and received a Citation of Merit at the 2007 convention for his piece "The Lake," which was taken at SUNY Albany. The 2007 convention was held in Tucson, AZ.

Josh recently traveled to Israel on Birthright, and had the time of his life. The group consisted of 21 hilarious gentlemen, 18 smokin-hot ladies, two amazing leaders, one very Israeli tour guide, one gorgeous medic/bodyguard, and seven intensely amazing Israeli soldiers. The group traveled to the Galilee from the airport at Tel Aviv, toured the Golan Heights and went to the winery there for a tasting, dipped in a natural hot spring called Hamat Gader, before leaving our kibbutz to travel to Tzfat and Jerusalem, where we saw a Kabbalah artist and had lunch in Pekiin, a Druze village near Jerusalem. We then traveled to our ho(s)tel in Jerusalem, Beit Va'Gan (not "Bait Vegan") and went to the Holocaust Memorial and Musuem, called Yad Vashem, then went to Har Herzl, ("Mount Herzl,") the tomb of Theodore Herzl, the first Zionist, and the cemetery of great leaders and military members, before the Monster-in-Law park and the Birthright Mega Event. The next day was the tour of the Old City and reflection at the Western Wall, the Kotel. The next day was Shabbat, which we spent walking/hiking/climbing trees in the Jerusalem forest. Afterwards, we traveled south toward the Judean Desert where we stayed in the Tzel Harim Hotel by the Dead Sea and some of us swam in the pool with Dead Sea water and got itchy (ow.) The next day we ascended Masada, walked around Ein Gedi, the nature reserve, met our Israeli counterparts, floated in the Dead Sea, then traveled south toward Eilat for a sunset booze cruise on the Red Sea. The next day we snorkeled in the Red Sea and hiked (again) down a canyon, then traveled north toward the Bedouin camp where we had a tent feast and "bonfire" and where I saw the most amazing night sky I have ever seen. The next day we traveled north toward Tel Aviv, saw the ancient seaport and artist colony of Jaffa, walked through a marketplace and street festival in Jaffa, saw Independence Hall in Tel Aviv, Rabin Square (the memorial of Yitzchak Rabin, the place where he was assassinated) and dinner at the best Asiatian place this side of China, the Chiang Rai Restaurant. We departed crying from Ben Gurion Airport on Thursday, January 10, 2008 and arrived back home with plenty of photos for Facebook.

Josh loves you.