With Campus Weather Service, I have served on both Forecasting Shifts as well as Communications Shifts. With the Forecasting Shifts, we work as a team of student meteorologists to produce a forecast discussion and a five-day forecast for the ten different zones of Pennsylvania. These forecasts appear on Campus Weather Service's website at http://www.cws.met.psu.edu, as well as Penn State's newspaper, The Daily Collegian. With the Communications Shift, we work as a team again to produce, edit, and upload a video forecast for the website and our YouTube account as well as send out audio forecasts to our radio clients.
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PSUBAMS stands for the Penn State Branch of the American Meteorological Society while PSUCNWA stands for the Penn State Chapter of the National Weather Association. Both allow the Penn State meteorology students to network with many meteorologists in all the different fields of meteorology as well as spread awareness and knowledge to the community about the science behind weather. The club also sends students to the National Weather Association and the American Meteorological Society Conference every year. This past year I got to be a Student Assistant at the American Meteorological Society Conference in New Orleans. I credit PSUBAMS for allowing me to get that position which allowed me to meet so many meteorology students from different universities as well as professionals in the industry. I was also able to attend AMS Broadcast Meteorology Conference in Boston as well as the NWA Annual Broadcast Meteorology Conference in Madison, Wisconsin.
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I got involved in The College of EMS Student Council as soon as I could. Through Student Council, I have been able to mentor a group of freshman every year, speak about the College to accepted students at our annual exposition called EMEX, fundraise for Relay for Life, keep in contact with the GEMS (Graduates of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences), volunteer at the local Nursing Home as well as clean-up local reservoirs.
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Penn State's Dance Marathon, popularly called THON, is a year-long fundraising effort that culminates in a no-sitting, no-sleeping 46 hour dance marathon that raises money for the Four Diamonds Fund, which helps families whose child has been diagnosed with pediatric cancer. I have been involved with a Communications Committee each year, whose duty is to spread awareness and facts about THON throughout Penn State, the surrounding community, and throughout the United States. My sophomore year, I was in charge of creating a newsletter to update middle and high schools about upcoming THON events and how they can get a THON-related event started at their school.
I have also been involved in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences THON organization. We take it upon ourselves to fundraise throughout the year by going on "canning weekends," hosting pizza sales, selling bracelets, having penny wars, Date Auctions, as well as contacting our alumni. |
Lion Ambassadors is Penn State's Student Alumni Corps. We instill Penn State tradition and history to the community by hosting tours for perspective students, alumni, and special visitors. We also host numerous events throughout the year that highlight some of Penn State's traditions like Guard the Lion Shrine before every Homecoming football game, to hosting Lantern Tours, which takes visitors and students on a path throughout campus that tells a story about the history of Penn State.
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