Student Ambassadors

Today, Aaron Norman is going to blog about our Student Ambassadors. He is uniquely qualified since he is President of the organization this semester.

Student Ambassadors is an elite organization on our campus. Members are required to maintain a minimum GPA of 2.5. Our duties are to assist faculty and staff at New Student Orientations, we assist recruiters in aquiring new students, and generally help assimilate new students into their TSTC surroundings. Currently, we have fifteen members.

As a member of Student Ambassadors, we have many opportunities to get involved that other students might not. For example, my most memorable experience was assisting with Tech Trek 09. Tech Trek is a summer camp that TSTC has for high school students. In addition to several experiments and activities on campus, we take the visiting students on several field trips. On one trip,we took the students to Shreveport, Louisiana. They got the opportunity to go to Sci-Port and visit Barksdale Airforce Base. I really enjoyed Barksdale! We were able to board some planes and sit in the cockpits. We were "debriefed" by an Air Force Officer that spoke about the technological breakthroughs the military is establishing, and we were able to see future police dogs train.

Overall, I describe being a Student Ambassador as a serious responsibility with loads of fun sprinkled throughout. If you are interested in becoming a Student Ambassador, you need to make sure you are in good academic standing with the school and then contact Debra McIntosh at (903)923-3205.