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NEWS 2 Brainiacs unite CLACKAMAS STUDENTS JOIN PHI THETA KAPPA HONOR SOCIETY STORY AN D PHOTOS BY JASON SIS§ON @ N EW SM AN JAY NEWS EDITOR Another class o f Clackam as Com m unity College students was inducted into Alpha Xi Zeta, the local chapter of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society. Students m ust make the CCC honor roll — which requires achieving a 3.5 grade-point average — to be invited to join PTK. Those who were invited and accepted were honored at a ceremony at the Elks Lodge in Oregon City on Wednesday, May 15. /‘W ell, it’ s definitely an achievem ent. [I’ve] never really got inducted into much o f a n y th in g b e fo r e ,” said A lexan d er Novitchkov- Burbank, an inductee and now recording officer for the local PTK chapter. The event included a dinner, ceremony and several speeches. The first speech was from Jason Ward, an alumni advisory board member for the Rocky Mountain Cascade Region of PTK, who spoke about his journey and how the honor society has improved his life. “ Som ething else th at I ’ve gotten out of Phi Theta Kappa is the knowledge that I have the* ability to set goals and obtain them , and I don’t think I would have that Theta Kappa is really a good opportunity sense o f self-e fficacy if I hadn’t set my t o h o n e th ese sk ills and really a nice sights on getting involved with this honor opportunity that you want to be sure to take advantage o f,” Cook said. “ And if it society,” Ward sa id .. W ard also touched o n the stu d en ts’ doesn’t work we just need to make friends potential, saying they were a room fu ll with the robots.” The last speech of the night came from of mentees that just need “ a little bit o f guidance, a little encouragement and the Michelle G ietl, the regional coordinator of world can be yours,” before he ceded the the Rocky Mountain Cascade Region. Gietl floor to C C C president Tim Cook, Cook . spent the majority of her tim e speaking about turning obstacles into opportunities was first m et with the surprise o f being named an honorary PTK, member before while also noting that it was the largest induction class she had seen, with more diving into his speech. He spent his time elaborating on some of his story and on than 100 in attendance. Gietl shared her why these students’ accomplishments are own obstacles — such as having emergency so important. Cook spoke about concerns open-heart surgery at 30— and how she over a changing economy and how things - overcame them before leaving the.crowd like automation will affect the future job with a quote of hers. “ D on’t judge someone for how long it m arket, and-w hy the skills th at can be improved as a PTK member are, and Will takes to achieve their goals. Take tim e to understand the path they took to get there, be, so important. “ But the types of things I just described you m ight learn som ething,” Gietl said as like curiosity and grit and the rest are she read the paper that she keeps on her uniquely hum an skills that we have. So at all tim es before closing her speech by being a part o f an organization like Phi congratulating the inductees. • After the speeches attendees were left to mingle as the night wound to a close. It was one meant to honor past accomplishments, and to look forward to ail the opportunities the future may bring. One student who is now the public relationsOfficer of the local PTK chapter, Ryan Balderas, summed up neatly the benefits of join in g the honor ‘ society. “ I don’t want to base everything down to its q u an titative asp ects, but it i s ,” Balderas said. ’’Having som ething show that I’ m putting extra effort outside of my curriculars — outside of my academics — it means som ething to a lot of people.” Top, students are inducted into Phi Theta Kappa on May 15. Below, Tim Cook addresses the group. ON THE COVER: CLACKAMAS PRINT Editorial Editor-in-Chief Victoria Durling chtefed@dackamas.edu Managing Editor Summer Barraza maned@clackamas.edu Arts & Culture Editor AI lie Perkins aced@clackamas.edu News Editor Jason Sisson newsed@elackamas.edu Humor Editor Eric Carlson humored@clackamas.edu Ad Manager Preston Drews admgr@clackamas.edu Sports Editor Jacob Thompson sportsed@clackamas.edti Photo Editor Jonathan Villagomez photoed@clackamas.edu Multimedia Editor Lexis Shull webedltor@clackamas.edu Design Editor Lilly Farris Deslgned@clackamas.edu Food Editor Emily Roberts Staff Daniel Bremer; Laura Canida Isaac Flaherty Jonathan Palmer Samantha Rusnak Zach Whitley Adviser Melissa Jones MelissaJ@clackamas.edu The Clackamas Print alms to .report the -news in an hopest, unbiased and pro fessional manner. Content published The Print is not screened or subject censorship? The Clackamas Print is free, but please take only one copy. Any person remov ing our papers in bulk will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Jacob Colton participated in a NASA Community College Aerospace Scholar program. Photo by NASA. Cover design by Daniel Bremer. May 22, 2019
