The Phi Theta Kappa will be hosting their annual food drive for the Cheer for the Holidays at Anoka-Ramsey Community College in Dec. Every year they run a food drive to collect food for the people who need it the most.
Members also reported that 58 pints of blood were collected during the Anoka-Ramsey Blood Drive they sponsored Oct. 6.
And the board set three major events that will be coming up in the end of Oct. through Nov. These events are orientation, induction, and Good as Gold Week.
The Cheer for the Holidays is an event that helps families who need help providing their children with toys, food and clothes. Every year the Phi Theta Kappa holds a competition between the faculty and students to see who can collect the most nonperishable food items. The food drive will be held Dec. 7 through Dec. 11 and this year will be the first year a trophy will be awarded to the winning side. The same trophy will be awarded back and forth to the winning side in future years.
Next the board members reviewed the Anoka-Ramsey blood drive. Their goal this year was to collect 60 pints of blood and came up collecting 58 pints. They fell only 2 pints short because some walk-in students could not wait for an opening to donate. Also some students were amazed that it took an hour to donate and did not schedule enough time before they would have to leave. The Phi Theta Kappa used a double booking technique that helped them to get up to their 58 pints collected. Using this technique they set out open signup sheets at three different locations around campus and students signed up. Some students were signing up at the same time on a different sheet. Since there were a lot of no shows there were no problems with people that signed up at the same time. This way they got at least one person at each signed up time. Overall, they had a lot of volunteers helping and next year they hope to handout flyers at the door as students walk into the college telling them there is a blood drive going on.
The events calendar then took a turn to the future in preparation for orientation. Orientation is an open meeting for all current Phi Theta Kappa members and interested members that have questions about what the Phi Theta Kappa is and does. The meeting covers all the upcoming events sponsored by the Phi Theta Kappa and gives opportunities to the members to get involved. It also has a question and answering session to get all the looming questions answered. The members who volunteer can earn prizes as they gain star levels. Star levels show how active a member is. They can be earned by volunteering, attending meetings, events and varies other tasks asked by the board members. There will be a folder handed out to each attendee with a bunch of information and star level sheets. Cookies, fruit punch and water will also be provided. The meeting will be Oct. 21 at Anoka-Ramsey Community College in room B206 at 2 p.m.
Orientation isn’t the only event that is coming up in the future, induction also is. Induction is a formal ceremony to induct new members into the Alpha Delta Alpha of the Phi Theta Kappa. It is held every year in the Performing Arts Center. This year’s will be held Nov. 16 at 5:30 p.m. Members who attend can invite family, friends and professors to sit in the audience and show support for their academic achievement. There will be an opportunity for the members to thank their guests for coming during the ceremony. Also members will receive a scroll and recognition as they pass across the stage. Cake, punch, cookies and water will be provided at the end of the ceremony during the reception where all attendees are welcomed to socialize and enjoy.
Good as Gold Week will be held Nov. 16 through Nov. 20 and each day of the week has a different event. Induction will be Monday’s event which is honoring new member’s day. Tuesday is service day and will be hosting the event feed my starving children. The Honors Seminar will be the event for scholarship day on Wednesday. Thursday is founder’s day and members will be at a table in the business bulge handing out cake to students for participating in trivia. Last but not least, an ice cream social will be held Friday in the student lounge.
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This was good. I especially liked the fourth paragraph, it was very interesting.
ReplyDelete- When a MONTH appears by itself, spell out the FULL month; do NOT abbreviate it.
ReplyDelete- Under Good as Gold Week Nov. 16 through Nov. 20, use Nov. 16 instead of Monday; Nov. 17 instead of Tuesday; etc.
- There’s good opportunities to tighten the story & reduce its 798 words.
EXAMPLES:
1)Because you wrote, “They fell only 2 pints short,” the readers can figure out the obvious, that 58 pints were collected under the goal of 60. Deleting "and came up collecting 58 pints" cuts out SIX words.
2)With question and answer(delete ing) session, you don’t need "to get all the looming questions answered." That cuts SEVEN words.
3)Omitting "the" before Phi Theta Kappa cuts another FOUR words.
4)After the first sentence, using ARCC will save 3-4 words.
5)Etc.
Michelle, it’s obvious you worked very hard on the PTK story. It was full of newsy items. And,
I’m sure nothing was left out because it was very thorough.