Highschool Outreach

Beta Zeta Nu, honoring our commitment to scholarship and service activities, decided to organize activities to promote Canada College new Honors Program. Four of our members went to Wood high school,Sequoia High School, Carlmont High, San Mateo High School. Rene Rivera, Jonathan Werden, Ashley Cohen and Sofia Lozano helped the out reach embassadors to explain en encourage high school seniors to join our new honors program!

Fourth Garfield Presentation

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On April 29, 2009, Alex Garcia, Rene Rivera, Astrid Caballero, Sofia Lozano and Clay gave the fourth presentation at Garfield Middle School with Youth Adelante. This time, the members created a power point presentation about leadership. The chapter members talked about what does it mean to be a leader, and specific steps to achieve goals. They also talked about their experiences as leaders and Honor students. Chapter members shared their goals in life and encouraged the kids to write down their goals as a way to make them concrete and easy to remember. After the presentation they organized a game that taught kids to plan ahead and reconcile needs and desires. The class divided into four groups. Each group had a budget and a list of things they needed to purchase. The kids budget their money and prioritized items in consensus.

This project, allowed us be role models for kids that are endangered of bad environments or neighborhoods with gangs and drugs. By doing this presentation, PTK was able to promote Engineering and the sciences to the kids at Garfield. We may have made a difference in the life of these children by what we are doing. We were able to see that we may not be able to change the world, but we understand that if we can make a change in these kids lives, that’s a plus for us and our community.

International Convention

This year, the international convention was in Grapevine, Texas. Our chapter sent 5 of our members, Ashley (co-president), Jonathan (VP of fundraising), and new members Rachel, Yvette and Clayton. The advisors that came were Professor Roscelli and one of our newest advisors, Professor Swanson. The convention was extremely successful as we won multiple awards for our achievements and learned a lot about future events we can do and how to make them successful. Our members and advisors went to multiple educational forums in order to learn about different aspects of the honor society and on the last day, we held a meeting to report back to the group everything we learned and how we can make our chapter even stronger next year. We were fortunate this year to see two keynote speakers - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (environmental activist) and Dr. Fareed Zakaria (CNN correspondent). Both speakers taught us a lot about the world we live in and what we can do to improve it. We hope our chapter can do as well next year, if not better!

List of Awards
Administrator Awards of Distinction
Dr. Steve Runnebohm, Alpha Omega Alpha Chapterm Mt. San Antonio College
Shirley B. Gordon Awards of Distinction
Dr. Chris McCarthy, Beta Beta Sigma Chapter, Napa Valley College
Mr. Tom Mohr, Beta Zeta Nu Chapter, Canada College


Distinguished Member Awards
Jeremy Madrigal, Beta Zeta Nu Chapter, Canada College
Elizabeth Fein, Beta Eta Psi Chapter, Sacramento City College
Jon Fournier, Beta Theta Kappa Chapter, Butte College
Eric Nolan, Alpha Omega Mu Chapter, Irvine Valley College


Distinguished Chapter Officer Awards
Helen Hagler, Beta Theta Kappa Chapter, Butte College
Richa Pandey, Alpha Omega Mu Chapter, Irvine Valley College
Rene Rivera, Beta Zeta Nu Chapter, Canada College



Distinguished Advisor Awards
Paul Roscelli, Beta Zeta Nu Chapter, Canada College
Kurt Meyer, Alpha Omega Mu Chapter, Irvine Valley College


Leadership Hallmark Awards
Beta Zeta Nu Chapter, Canada College
Beta Theta Kappa Chapter, Butte College
Alpha Omega Mu Chapter, Irvine Valley College

Top 100 Chapters
Beta Theta Kappa Chapter, Butte College
Alpha Omega Mu Chapter, Irvine Valley College
Beta Eta Psi Chapter, Sacramento City College
Beta Theta Omicron Chapter, Skyline College
Beta Zeta Nu Chapter, Canada College
Beta Beta Sigma Chapter, Napa Valley College

Distinguished Chapter Awards
Beta Eta Psi Chapter, Sacramento City College
Beta Zeta Nu Chapter, Canada College
Alpha Omega Mu Chapter, Irvine Valley College

Officers Needed!

Interested in being behind an award winning chapter? Please come to our meetings on Tuesdays at 2 or e-mail Kayla at BetaZetaNuNews@yahoo.com for more information.