Pitt-Greensburg APEX 2025-2026
Political Action
Table of Contents
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PACE Baskets for Activities Fair
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PACE Advocacy at Kickoff Meeting 2025
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PACE Raffle Baskets for TLI Conference 2025
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Trick-or-Vote
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Presentations During Meetings for PACE
PACE Raffle Basket for Activities Fair
At our Activities Fair this year, we raised over $100 for the Political Action Committee for Education (PACE) by raffling off a teacher supply basket. We do raffle baskets each year for PACE at the Activities Fair to communicate to new and old students the importance of PACE in our club.
PACE Advocacy at Kickoff MEeting
At our kickoff meeting for this school year, April Pompura, the Southwest Region PACE Director and PACE chair for the UPG chapter, spoke about PACE to new and returning members. For the new members, students were educated on the role and importance of PACE within SPSEA, and returning members were reminded of how PACE has impacted education.
PACE Raffle Baskets for TLI Conference 2026
To add awareness about politics in education at our Teacher Leadership Institute in February, our SPSEA designed two ways to donate. First, SPSEA members could pay $5 extra as "early birds" and be placed in all their first-choice breakout sessions. Second, we created raffle baskets. The money from both the early bird and raffle tickets went to PACE. During TLI, we raised $435 for PACE.
Trick-or-Vote
Everyone loves candy and Halloween. Not everyone loves politics. Our Trick-or-Vote annual event tries to encourage students -- through candy and Halloween -- to care about voting. Our PACE chair, April Pompura, wrote a note to campus residents about how important it is to vote during this election and how it will impact them as students at a public university. April also included voter registration information and information to find polling places. We loaded bags with candy and these notes and delivered these to each dorm room on campus. Members who live in each residence hall delivered these to all resident Pitt-Greensburg students.
Presentations During Meeting for PACE
Throughout the course of the year, especially in the first half, our chapter's President, Garrett, and our PACE Chair, April Pompura, worked hard on getting members aware of the local elections that happened on November 4th, 2025. Garrett vocalized the importance of engaging in local politics, as well as showing our members about Schoolhouse Ballot. Mr. Jonathan Burnett, our Uniserv Representative, who often joins our meeting, was also able to provide important information to our chapter.