Pitt-Greensburg APEX 2023-2024
Political Action
Table of Contents
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PACE 50-50 and Raffle Baskets for Activities Fair
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Writing letters to legislators regarding the student teacher stipend during our kick-off meeting
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Trick-or-Vote
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Presentations During Meetings for PACE
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PACE Raffle Baskets for TLI Conference 2023
PACE 50-50 and Raffle Baskets for Activities Fair
At our Activities Fair, we raised money for the Political Action Committee for Education (PACE) by raffling off a coffee tumbler and a coffee maker, as well as a 50-50 raffle. We do raffles each year for PACE at the Activities Fair to communicate to new and old students the importance of PACE in our club.
Writing letters to legislators
During our kick-off meeting in the fall, the members of our chapter were given printed out letters to sign and mail to their local legislator. These letters were to help the passing of the $10,000 student-teaching stipend. The members were to sign and address the letters and then return them to the officers so they could be stamped and mailed out.
PACE raffle baskets for TLI conference 2023
To add a little fun to our Teacher Leadership Institute that was in February, our SPSEA made up raffle baskets for attendees. This money from the purchases of the tickets went to our PACE program.
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, Alec Patterson, wrote a note to campus residents about how the elections would impact them directly: Pitt is a public school and school funding comes from our state government. Information was provided on how to find where to vote and which candidates support public education (via a website). Small bags were packed full of candy with the notes and hung on the doors of each resident's room in the resident halls.
Sydney McLaughlin, Benjamin Meyers, Emily Johnson, Oliver Hall and Kayla Loebach packed the bags. They, along with others who live in the residence halls, delivered the bags.
Presentations During Meeting for PACE
When the state PACE chair is also the PACE chair for your region and the co-chair for your chapter, PACE becomes an every-meeting discussion. Throughout the summer, Marina Lagattuta posted articles, pictures, and memes on our UPG Student PSEA Facebook page. From the very first meeting in August, she presented information about PACE and the need to be involved. PACE business was listed as one of the topics on every agenda for the year!