Join us for our Third General Membership Meeting
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Service Opportunity: Park clean up!
You’re invited to join LaGuardia’s Phi Theta Kappa, Green Shores NYC, The Friends of Queensbridge Park Committee and Partnerships for Parks in celebrating:
“It’s My Park Day” in Queensbridge Park!
Roll up your sleeves and volunteer with your friends and neighbors to beautify the park!
Activities include general park cleanup, painting and planting projects.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
10 AM to 2 PM
Queensbridge (enter at Vernon Blvd. & 41st Avenue)
*Rain or Shine*
Snacks and supplies are provided for all volunteers. For more information please CLICK HERE or feel free to contact us.
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Backpack project: school supply drive
We are collecting new or unused school supplies to donate to P.S. 212, the Elementary School of Cyber Science and Literacy located in Jackson Heights, Queens. Due to severe budget cuts, students at that school are struggling along with very limited basic school supplies. Won't you please contribute an item or two towards this effort by one generation of students to help those behind them?
Location of collection boxes:
The front entrance of the E-building, and in front of MB-46 in the M-building
The children of P.S. 212 are in need of NEW or UNUSED:
Pens, pencils, crayons, markers, rulers, compasses, child-safe scissors, composition notebooks, packets of loose leaf paper, folders.
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Get Smart About The Arts, an Honors In Action event
Are you a fan of the arts? or Love art in all forms? We have something for you!
Thursday, October 22
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
E-500
This is an interactive campus event where students can learn about the benefits of fine arts in our communities, and why the arts should be treasured.
We will have a short Skit and a panel of speakers who work in various areas of fine arts to speak about the role art has played in their lives, and allow question and answer periods for students to panelist. For a program of the event, click HERE.
We will also be having a “Creative Expressions” contest, where students can submit a piece of artwork, short story, or poem, and win a series of prizes. To sign up for the contest, click HERE to download the application form.
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Join us for our Second General Membership Meeting
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Jack Kent Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship
Major National Scholarships Informational Session (focus: Jack Kent Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship)
Wednesday, October 28
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
E-147
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LaGuardia Foundation Scholarships Informational Session
Do you want to find out about scholarships for your time here at LaGuardia? Do you want information about how to apply for the LaGuardia Foundation Scholarships? If so, please attend the following event:
LaGuardia Foundation Scholarships Informational Session
Lenin Rodriguez (Financial Aid), and past Foundation Scholarship winners.
Wednesday, Oct. 14
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
E-147
For more information, go to MB46 or call 718.482.5225/5220
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Conversation with Ryan Keaton Admissions Dean, Swarthmore College
Thursday, October 8th
3:00 PM - 4:30PM
Library Conference Room (E101)
Want to learn more about Swarthmore? Curious about the transfer process? Come hear Dean Keaton discuss what might be available for students who transfer to Swarthmore, and the transfer process itself.
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Join PTK on the celebration of Peace & Nonviolence
Friday, Oct. 2 is the International Day of Nonviolence. Join the chapter as it celebrates this day.
When: Friday, Oct. 2
Time: 2-4pm
Where: E-Building Atrium
What:
Screening: Gandhi Video
Guest Speakers: Carol Delgado(Consul General of Venezuela in New York), Mattis Chiroux (Veteran and LaGuardia student) and Olga Espinal (Center of Cultures)
Band: Luna Negra
Q&A (audience and panelists)
LaGuardia's chapter of Phi Theta Kappa is hosting a Kick-off of the World March for Peace and Non-violence, a world-wide movement consisting of a March across seven continents, 100 plus countries and 300 plus cities. It is slated to be the biggest pacifist mobilization in history. www.worldmarchusa.net
Endorsed by international leaders such as Jimmy Carter and the Dalai Lama, and organizations like Amnesty International and Doctors Without Borders, this historic March aims to bring together events to raise awareness of the urgent need for peace and disarmament, and to pressure for a profound change in the violent direction of our society. The march will begin on Oct. 2 in Wellington, New Zealand and end in Punta de Vacas, Argentina on January 2, 2010. The marchers will arrive in New York City on November 30, 2009.
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Our october events!!
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Transfer Workshop
Wednesday, Aug. 19
2:30pm in MB46
The upcoming Workshop on Transfer will be hosted by LaGuardia Graduate Luis Feliz. Feliz was an honor student and the 2008-2009 Publications Officer of Alpha Theta Phi chapter (part of Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society of the Two Year Colleges).
He was also the recipient of the 2009 Coca-Cola Bronze Scholarship and the 2008 Kaplan Educational Foundation Scholarship. Having successfully navigated through the transfer process, Feliz will be giving insights and secrets that allowed him to not only be admitted, but also offered a full tuition scholarship at the prestigious and selective Amherst College. Don’t miss out on this opportunity!
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More Events Coming up!
Our Chapter Officers are currently planning upcoming events for the Fall semester. For a list of past activities and events, visit our archives.