College Completion Project: Volunteering Opportunity TOMORROW!!

Greetings everyone,

As mentioned in our meeting on Wednesday, our college completion project is mentoring high school freshman's from Manhattan Early College of Advertising (MECA)  by tutoring them in certain subjects along with giving them advice about college in general. Our goal is help these students transition to college with a mature mindset and have a strong basic math, reading and writing skills to perform well in their classes.
If you didn't have a chance to sign up in the meeting, you can still participate! Just contact us and let us know what days are you available.
This week we will just be meeting the students that we will be mentoring for the next two weeks (every two weeks we rotate).

Days: Monday, Tuesday ( Friday schedule ), Wednesday, and Friday from 11-12

photo by Wally Gobetz
NYC - TriBeCa: BMCC - Icarus
Creative Commons

We will be meeting TOMORROW (Wednesday September 24th) at 10:30am in front of the Icarus Statue that is in front of BMCC's main campus.

If you want to learn more information about the school, click in the link below
http://meca-nyc.org/site/contact_us/

Remember: This is a great resume and college application booster. It can also go onto your Co-Curricular Transcript (CCT) which can get you a leg up in competitive scholarships as well as college applications.


P.S: These are the links to our social media sites

-Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/alphakappaptk
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​Warm Regards, ​
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Deborah N. Freire
Executive Board Member | Phi Theta Kappa
646-661-0175 | deborahfreire17@gmail.com    

First Meeting: Officer Positions and Contact Info

Here's the info from our first meeting. 

If you're interested in becoming an officer or want to be more involved in our chapter, contact any of our executive board members listed below.

If you're looking for your invitations to join the chapter, we just got word they should be going out in October.

Any other questions regarding registration on the PTK.org website or issues with your passcode, contact one of the PTK advisors below. 

Executive’s contact info.

Julius Diaz

Jdiazptk@gmail.com

(718) 419-1721

Deborah N. Freire

Deborahfreire17@gmail.com

(646) 661-0175

Elizabeth Ildefonso

Evi25@msn.com

(718) 986-6848

Patricia Zeballos

Patricia.goninz@gmail.com

(516) 325-0438

Supervisors Contact info. 

Acte Maldonado

amaldonado@bmcc.cuny.edu

(212) 220-8053 

Alex d'Erizans

alex.derizans@gmail.com 

(217) 721-7382

Zhanna Yablokova
zyablokova@bmcc.cuny.edu 

(212) 220-8286

FIRST MEETING of the Fall 2014 Semester: Come One Come ALL!! by Michaela Correa

Hello, Hello, Hello everybody! How was the second week of classes? Did you have fun? I really hope you all did!
Anyway, I have an announcement for you all! Really, this is our first official announcement of the semester! This so exciting, okay okay, let me get on with it!

On Wednesday, September 10th, PTK will be hosting our first official meeting of the semester! The meeting will be held at 3pm in room N796 in the main building.
A special source has even informed me that there will be Brownies! Special PTK brownies made by one of our very own executive board members Elizabeth Ildefonso … Yummy~
On that note, I hope to see you all there so that we may all partake of the chocolatey goodness!

Kick Starting our Blog for Fall 2014 Semester!! by Michaela Correa

With the first two days of class over and done with, I feel it is time to kick start the blog!

How were your summers?
How are your schedules?
Did you have fun?
Did you hangout with lots of friends?

There’s nothing much to report, nothing much to say so early in the semester.

So! What do I have to say? Well…
Here’s to the summer soon past. Here’s to the semester just started. Here’s to the friends we have and the ones we will come to know. Here’s to falling leaves and pumpkin spice. Most of all though, here’s to all of you for making it to another semester!

I am so excited for the PTK meetings to start up again so that I might see old friends and make new ones! I have missed you all so much over the summer, see you all again soon!

photo credit: Lel4nd via photopin cc

Vote, Vote, Voting!: An Inside Look into our Election Day Meeting by Michaela Correa

Julius Diaz preparing to give his campaign speech
Photo by Marcelina Washington

Vote, vote, voting!

That was the exciting happening of the final meeting of the semester, picking four new executive board members! We had professional looking ballets and everything!

There was something absolutely wonderful about listening to the heartfelt speeches of the people I have come to consider very good friends as they attempted to plead their case and prove just how qualified they are for the role. I wished I could have voted for all of them, every single candidate was wonderful and I loved them all so much. It was insanely difficult to vote for only three of them, as I am sure everyone agrees.
Despite this happening during the final meeting of the semester, it never once held a feeling of finality; all I could feel was the anticipation of jumping right back into it next semester

In the end, I am overwhelmingly proud of everyone who was involved and I want to give a big, big congratulations to our winners: Deborah N. Freire, Julius Diaz, Patricia Zeballos, and Elizabeth Ildefonso! To all those who didn't get elected, I wish you all the luck in the world because I hope to see you all run again next semester!

Stay tuned for more blog entries to be written after finals and good luck to everyone during finals week!