Updates!

Hey everyone! If you've been out of the loop, don't worry you're not the only one! Here are a few updates so far to get you back in the loop:

*Please turn in your applications ASAP if you plan on joining us again for this semester, yes you do need to turn in an application for every semester, pay the club fee, basically do the process all over again. Please turn in the applications to me or Julia or leave it in Julia's box in the club room! And don't forget to log into the ANGEL group if you already paid the club fee, new members! And for those of you that turned in applications, please don't forget to turn in the rest of your paperwork or I will have to play head hunter again (:

*Points will go back to the way they were, 1 point per hour! Julia did say it depends on the event, but generally it is 1 point per hour, so please stop harassing me xD Points are due by May 11, no exceptions!! So write this down in your calendars people! If I made a mistake or anything, please contact me and we will get it fixed! (:

*AGS sashes for graduation are 21 dollars if we pick them up at the conference and 22 dollars if we get them shipped to us. Heather will be ordering them for us and we need to pay for them in advance. If you are interested, please pay as soon as possible!

*Elections for Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 are going to be held on the first Tuesday of May! The positions that are available are: President, Vice President, Treasurer and Point Secretary. If you are interested in running for any of these positions, please let Julia know! You are required to write a 3-5 minute speech introducing yourself, why you are running for the position and your goal for the future of AGS.

*Our Spring conference is this Friday the 20th-22nd! We will be meeting TODAY at 4pm in the campus center club room to work on nametags, the cheer and the newsletter (yes, you will get points for helping out!) Hopefully we can everything finalized by Thursday. Make sure to bring the following for those who are going to the conference: AGS shirts, swimsuit (if weather permits), evening attire for the banquet and your smiles (Julia came up with that, not me xD)

*UPCOMING EVENTS:
-Rock the votes ASG Elections, voter registration sign up and to support Measure C and prop 1522. Please sign the petition to make tax companies that drill oil and make billions off profit, instead by taxing them that money goes directly to our school K-12, community colleges, UC and CSU
-Eco Fair is coming up on 4/19 and Julia is looking for opportunities for us to volunteer, as soon as the coordinator gets back to her, she will post the info on ANGEL

That's basically it! If you have any questions, be sure to ask us in our facebook group or email me at ags.mission@gmail.com
And good luck on getting all those points in! Have a good rest of the semester, AGS members and hope to see you around! (:

Ellen Trieu,
Secretary/Points Officer

A Few Updates

Hey everyone! How did all of your midterms go? If you had any. Mine went decently ok. Ok so here are a few updates that has been going on:

*Please turn in your money for the spring conference as soon as possible! Julia got us some money from ASG, so now it's down to $165, but if you choose to go only on Saturday, it'll be $125. You can make checks out to AGS Sigma Iota. You can give the money to me or Julia, or put it in an envelope and put it in Julia's box in the club room!

*Please turn in your applications for AGS as soon as possible! Our current t-shirts are $10, since we are getting new t shirt designs very soon! The club fee is $15. You can find the new member packet on ANGEL, which has the application, a points chart, and an employment verification form! You can hand Julia or me the application or put it in her box in the club room! And if you haven't joined our facebook group, please join! We communicate on there regularly: http://www.facebook.com/groups/agsmissioncollege1112/

*Gamer day is TOMORROW, March 13! If you need some extra points, this is the perfect opportunity! It runs from 10am-6pm in the campus center. I will have a drop box on ANGEL, so please log in your hours on there. There will be a sign in sheet there as well! (:

*If you're looking for community service stuff to do and you're in our ANGEL group, please check the calendar for all the events and feel free to ask Kayla or Julia about the events! (: We are doing blood drive tabling until the actual blood drive day! It's from 11-2 and 3-7. The tables are in the main building and the cafeteria, so feel free to do either! Please log in your hours and days on ANGEL!

Feel free to message me on facebook (if you have me as a friend) or e-mail me at ags.mission@gmail.com if you have any questions! (:

Ellen Trieu

Secretary/Points Officer

New Meeting Time/Updates

Hey everyone! As most of you know, Tuesday was our first meeting for the Spring 2012 semester! I know it went well, even though I wasn't there. So yes, our new meeting times for this semester is on Tuesdays, it'll be every week for at least this month then we'll probably change it to biweekly like last semester. So Tuesdays, around 12:30pm-1:30pm, same meeting room as last semester! Unfortunately not a lot of people showed up on Tuesdays because the letter telling people that they're eligible to join AGS has not been e-mailed out yet. I think it's due to some technical problems, so hopefully we see some new faces at the meetings soon! I, unfortunately, have class around those times, so please bare with me if I won't be as informed or as organized this semester, just turn in all your paperwork to Julia and she'll transfer them over to me, or leave them in her box and I'll take it from there! If you have any questions, be sure to e-mail me at ags.mission@gmail.com or if you have my facebook, to message me! If you can't make it to the meetings, like me, Julia will have the agendas posted up on ANGEL if you're in our ANGEL group! Oh and we might have possible conference meeting calls, like on Skype or something, for those of us who can't attend, so more updates to come on that!

I deleted all of the points from last semester, so it's a new clean slate on there now and I just added the points for Tuesday's meeting.

And as for the applications this semester, since I deal with most of the applications, it'll be so much easier for me if you could print out your current schedule and your transcript because the current schedule will confirm the number of units you have while it doesn't show that on the transcript and some people do make some mistakes on their applications, so yes current schedule and transcripts please! I did post a member packet on ANGEL, it includes the application, a points chart, and an employment verification form. I just thought it'd be easier to have all of those instead of a bunch of separate things, so don't be alarmed when you see the packet! And be sure to keep the points chart, I was asked a lot of questions last semester on how the points system works!

And I will try to post more updates on here this semester, but everything will be on ANGEL, so once you pay, please please sign up on there if you're a new member! I will try to clean up the roster, so whoever isn't joining this semester will be removed, just to make it a bit more cleaner!

That's about it...hopefully I see you all again this semester and some new faces as well! Let's have a great semester everyone! (:

Ellen Trieu,

Secretary/Points Officer

November Events!

Hey everyone! To get you all up to date about what we discussed on Monday...

November 5- The Fall Conference! If you signed up for the conference, don't forget to pay by this Friday, $30! Julia will be on campus, so be sure to find her! Be sure to wear your AGS shirt and bring your notebooks and binders to take notes! Also don't forget to bring some money for dinner that night (: The Conference is from 9 AM-3 PM at West Hills College at Lemoore! For those of you that signed the sheet for the conference during the meeting a while back and paid, your seat will be on the bus with us! Meet at 5:30 AM (early I know!) at Mission at the cul de sac. If you need to find a way to get to the conference, please contact us right away and we will figure something out!

November 8- Gamer Day! Time for another Gamer Day, peoples! It will be in the Campus Center from 10 AM-6 PM, so if you can drop by to help for an hour or two, then feel free! I will definitely be helping out again! (:

November 12- Renew the Zoo! If you need to carpool, be sure to contact us! Be at the SF Zoo by 7:30 AM-8 AM at least because that's when it starts! Afterwards, you get free access to the zoo until closing time which is around 5 PM, so this is a great opportunity!

November 19-Child Development Center! The CDC needs help in moving the toys from the old center to the new one, we're basically going to be cleaning up the toys or whatever else they need help with! It's 10 AM-1 PM at Mission College!

Our meetings will now be biweekly, so our next meeting will be on Monday November 14! Mark your calendars! (: Oh and I did put up a lot of points recently on ANGEL, so if you see I made a mistake or anything, please contact me and I'll get it fixed right away! And if you paid for your membership fee for AGS and you're not in our ANGEL group, please contact me at ags.mission@gmail.com and I'll get you the password right away! (:

If you have any questions about any of these, you know where to find me! (:

Ellen Trieu,

Secretary/Points Officer

Blood Drive Tabling!

Hey everyone! For those of you that were at the meeting on Monday, we discussed the blood drive tabling times that we were going to do. The tabling started on Monday instead of last week and we are going to do tabling this week until next week Wednesday! The times we are going to do are 11 AM-2 PM and 3 PM-7 PM, Julia decided these are the times when students are mostly active at school. The first shifts, 11-2, are in the cafeteria and the second shift is in the main building! It would be awesome if you have a laptop and bring it with you when you are tabling so people who are interested in donating blood, can sign up right there and then! Or a smartphone would work too or an ipad! Julia should have put a sign up sheet at the table, so please sign in your hours whenever you are doing tabling, there is also a drop box on ANGEL to log in your hours, so please do that as well in case I can't get a hold of the hard copy! And that's about it! Oh and if you do decide to donate blood, please tell me or Julia and we will give you some extra points! (: Hope to see everyone at the Blood Drive next week! Don't forget to sign up on ANGEL if you're interested in volunteering for the Blood Drive!

Ellen Trieu,

Secretary/Points Officer

Renew The Zoo and SVACA Orientation

Hey everyone! There are two things going on on October 8!

First is Renew The Zoo which is 8-11 AM at the San Francisco Zoo! A few of us went to Renew the Zoo last semester and it was very fun, considering we got free access to the zoo! I've never been to the zoo before that, so it was a good experience! Highly recommended to go! (: Renew the Zoo is on the second Saturday of each month, so you can go whenever you want to!

The second thing is the cat orientation for SVACA! It's from 10 AM-12 PM! It's right near Mission College, so it's not that far! Here is the address, in case:

3370 Thomas Road

Santa Clara, CA 95054

Be sure to sign up for the orientation before going, here is the site to sign up: http://svaca.com/community/volunteers.html

There is also the dog orientation on Sunday October 9, if you're interested!

You don't have to do both, since the times overlap, so be sure to do one or the other, if you can! I will probably be putting up an assessment on ANGEL, so whoever is interested in renew the zoo, just sign up there and if you end up going, be sure to tell me because I'll be going to the orientation instead. I will be sending out more ANGEL passwords later on this week, I need to collect the applications from the ASB Office to get your emails, so hang on tight! Hope to see you at the orientation! (: Oh and if you need to carpool, be sure to contact us!

Ellen Trieu,

Secretary/Points Officer

Health Fair

Hey everyone! I just received an email concerning the health fair! Here is more info about it:

Date: Thursday October 6, 2011

Timeline: *9 AM-10 AM- Set Up, tables will be labeled.

*10 AM-2 PM-Health and Student Success Fair. Please be prepared to stay through the duration of the event.

Location: Main Building, Center Space. The weather forecast predicts possible rain.

We Will Provide:

*Bottled water and 1-2 lunch tickets (redeemable at the cafeteria)

*Table and chairs

You are encouraged to bring the following items:

*Handouts/Brochures describing your organization

*Tablecloth

*Giveaways (candy, marketing toys, pencils, etc.)

That's about it! If you are interested in volunteering for the health fair, I set up an "assessment" on ANGEL, so just go under content and click on health fair then type in the times you want to volunteer! If you paid and haven't gotten an email from me with the ANGEL password, please leave your email and I will send you it asap! Thank you!

Ellen Trieu,

Secretary/Points Officer