<div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hello everyone!</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Society of physics students will be holding their second meeting this Thursday, September 25th, at 3:00 p.m. in room 127 of the science building. <span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);line-height:20px">We will have TASTY DONUTS! There are a few minor topics to discuss but the primary objective of this next meeting will be planning our role in a science fair in association with the American Chemical Society that will be hosted in late October. Also, our first planetarium movie night is drawing near so we will finalize our decision on what to watch! I hope to see many of you this Thursday. Take care,</span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);line-height:20px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><font color="#141823" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:20px">Alexander Spahn</span></font></div><div><font color="#141823" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:20px">Acting president of SPS</span></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">A (relatively) brief excerpt about SPS:</div><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18.6666660308838px">The Society of Physics Students (SPS) is a professional association explicitly designed for students. Membership, through collegiate chapters, is open to anyone interested in physics. The only requirement for membership is that you be interested in physics. Besides physics majors, our members include majors in chemistry, computer science, engineering, geology, mathematics, medicine, and other fields.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18.6666660308838px"><img src="http://www.spsnational.org/about/images/sps_sigma_logos.jpg" alt="SPS & Sigma Pi Sigma" width="86" height="80" hspace="3" align="right"></p><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18.6666660308838px">Within SPS is housed</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18.6666660308838px"> </span><a href="http://www.spsnational.org/about/sigma.htm" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,143,190);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18.6666660308838px;text-decoration:none">Sigma Pi Sigma</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18.6666660308838px">, the national physics honor society, which elects members on the basis of outstanding academic achievement. </span> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18.6666660308838px">This unique two-in-one society operates within the</span><a href="http://www.aip.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,143,190);text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18.6666660308838px">American Institute of Physics</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18.6666660308838px">, an umbrella organization for ten other professional science societies.</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18.6666660308838px">The SPS exists to help students transform themselves into contributing members of the professional community. Course work develops only one range of skills. Other skills needed to flourish professionally include effective communication and personal interactions, leadership experience, establishing a personal network of contacts, presenting scholarly work in professional meetings and journals, and outreach services to the campus and local communities.</span></div><div><br></div>
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