The AGS Spring Banquet and Awards Ceremony will be Friday June 1st in the Piazza at 6pm.

Future AGS leaders: Applications for AGS Executive Board 2012-2013 are available now at agspcc.org/resources/docs.

Applications are due Tuesday, May 15th.

AGS Service, Community Service, and Scholastic Achievement scholarships are available. Download the scholarship application at agspcc.org/resources/docs.

Scholarship applications are due Tuesday, May 15.

Go to my.agspcc.org/tor to apply now!

The Tournament needs 70 AGS members to volunteer at the Rose Parade next year.

This volunteer opportunity is exclusive to AGS at PCC.

Deadline is April 27.

The new AGS Card-Swipe system: sign-ins are as simple as swiping your PCC ID card!

Instead of taking a ticket when you go to a General Meeting, or signing in on a list at Planning Meetings, you can now conveniently have your PCC ID card swiped at a laptop managed by one of our friendly board members.

Some events will also use the Card-Swipe system. So remember to bring your PCC ID card with you to events and meetings.

The AGS “Card-Swipe Sign-In System” (CSIS) was generously developed for us by the Computer Science club at PCC.

There are two scholarships available at PCC right now, with deadlines coming up soon.

Kathleen D. Loly Scholarship, due on April 6th, is for outstanding foreign language students who are also AGS members. That’s right, this scholarship is exclusive to AGS members. Visit C247 for more information or to get a copy of the application.

Kathleen D. Loly was born in England and emigrated to the United States. She taught Spanish at Pasadena City College, and was one of the original founders of Alpha Gamma Sigma in 1926, which explains why Pasadena is the Alpha Chapter of AGS. Prior to her death in 1958, she bequeathed her estate to AGS, and these monies formed the basis of a stock portfolio from which AGS derives its ability to award scholarships each year.

The Flea Market Scholarship is due May 1. From a pool of $20,000, awards will be given to candidates in 4 categories. For more information, contact Flea Market director Carrie Afuso in CC105 or at cmafuso@pasadena.edu

When the Pasadena City College Flea Market originated in the late 1970s, it was designed to benefit students through programmatic support and scholarships. To this day, the Market has maintained that designation.

Do you think AGS only exists on our campus?  Well it doesn’t.  Celebrate this upcoming Friday, Cesar Chavez Day, by joining AGS members from more than a dozen different community colleges scattered around Southern California.  Eat a variety of tasty foods, play sports, cook smores, warm up by a fire, and network with students you’ve never met but who share the same enthusiasm for community service and academic success that you do.  Sign up for the event at my.agspcc.org.  We’ll provide carpool.

The next Red Cross blood drive will be on Tuesday April 3rd, Wednesday April 4th, and Thursday April 5th at the PCC quad.

Sign up my.agspcc.org/events

Help recruit people to donate blood for April’s blood drive. You will either sit at a table to collect sign ups or walk around collecting sign ups. Also, if you donate blood yourself, then keep the card they give you afterwards (there’ll be a number on it) and turn it in to Briana (the recording secretary for AGS) at a general or planning meeting to receive one CS hour.

Come to the quad to the ARC table and ask the person in charge what you can do to help out. If they don’t need your help in the quad, then check Crevling Lounge (second floor of CC building right above the WiFi lounge).

There has been a rumor that BUDDY THE BLOODROP will attend. If so, earn hours by wearing the costume and acting silly!

If you would like to head this event, meaning collect the sign-in sheet for AGS and monitor our volunteers sign in properly, then please let me know in the comment box.

Have your pizza and eat it too.

Start off your AGS semester with the AGS Kickoff Meeting, Thursday March 15 in The Vosloh Auditorium (UU Building)

The AGS board will formally introduce each other. Payments can be payed. And food will be served after the meeting!

Notice that there is no image accompanying this post. We need a publicity art director for Spring 2012! The Publicity Art Director will be in charge of advertising and graphic design for Alpha Chapter and its events. Go to agspcc.org/resources/docs to download the application, due March 12.