Alpha Theta Phi Chapter - Phi Theta Kappa - LaGuardia Community College

By Edlyn Campoverde Pursuing your passion This past weekend I attended the 2015 PTK New York Regional Convention. On the first night of the conference Dr. Ron LaBuz who teaches at Mohawk Valley Community College for the past three decades spoke about his experience as a professor. That night what truly touched and meant a lot to me was when Dr. Ron LaBuz spoke about a student he once had. This student became suddenly saddened and in tears when asked by Dr. Ron LaBuz on what she truly wanted to do and become in her future. The student then confessed that she found true happiness when opening and dipping her fingers into a jar of clay. The student indeed had great talent in creating amazing art. For the student it wasn't an easy decision to make since her parents had wanted her to become a doctor. Needless to say she followed her true passion and later on became a great and known successful artist. Dr. LaBuz spoke greatly about these students and their stories about fulfilling wh...

Report from the New York Regional Convention in Ithaca, 2015 March 7 - Fellowship Event by Rachel Chambers If you missed this years New York Regional Convention, you definitely missed something phenomenal. What better place to meet new people that shares a few of the same values than with your fellow Phi Theta Kappa members around New York? If anything, this whole experience was a great one where you would interact with amazing people, learn a lot from different seminars and workshops and be able to take something back to your own chapter. The highlight of my whole trip had to be the night with the musical genius and rap mix violinists Svet himself. This young man is a Bulgarian native and professional violinist, that focuses on mainly remixing hip hop, RnB and other genres of music with his violin. He was also a competitor on America Got Talent and now work with some of the most iconic musicians in our time such as Kanye West and Chris Brown, just to name a few. H...