Student Clubs and Organizations

Future Educators Club

This semester members created a basket of school supplies that was donated to the Kids In Dire Straits committee for their annual Murder Mystery Dinner Theater event. Currently, the club has worked on assembling “cookies in a jar” to be sold at the craft fair held in the Gordon Student Center this past November. Another upcoming project for the club will be volunteering to gift wrap at the campus bookstore. The club’s goal this year is to send up to 10 students to the New York State Association for the Education of Young Children conference in May.

Hospitality and Culinary Arts Club

On Friday, Dec. 7 the Hospitality and Culinary Club will be sponsoring the Second Annual Onondaga Community College Chili Cook-off. Judging for the chili cook off will take place in The Gordon Great Silent Non-Students Room from noon to 1 p.m. Anyone who pays the $2 charge to taste all the chilies can be the judge and choose their favorite! The winner of this event will have his or her recipe entered in the annual Syracuse Winter Fest Chili Cook-off held in February.

OCC Literary Society

The Onondaga Community College Literary Society will hold the last meeting for the semester on Tuesday, Dec. 11 at 3:30 p.m. in room M-310. Please contact society adviser Yvonne Fish-Kalland at fishkayv@sunyocc.edu for more information. All students and faculty are encouraged to attend.

GeoClub

The GeoClub is one of the oldest clubs on campus and was founded more than 15 years ago by students and faculty interested in geology. The club’s general mission is to provide interested students with an opportunity to study and observe rocks, minerals and other natural geologic phenomena in a relaxed outdoor setting. The club is student run and has evolved into a group of students who are involved in a wide range of activities.

Some of the activities that the club has done include organizing a career day luncheon, which occurs at least once a semester to allow local scientists, educators and business people who have a background in the Earth sciences to speak to students on campus about careers in geology and related fields. Club members have also attended local and statewide geologic meetings. Meetings and organizations include the Central New York Association of Professional Geologists and the Northeast Geologic Society of America.

GeoClub also organizes trips that take members out of the region. The club has done mineral and fossil collecting trips to sites in Central New York, the Adirondack Mountains, Vermont, New Hampshire, and New Jersey. The club organizes field trips to local and distant museums. These have included the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, the Museum of Natural History in New York City and the Dinosaur State Park in Connecticut. They also take camping field trips when the weather permits to places such as the Tug Hill Plateau, Vermont, Rhode Island and the North Carolinian Outer Banks and the New Jersey shore.

The club also does whale watch and ocean fishing trips as part of larger excursions. Adviser Brian McAninch believes the GeoClub is a fun and well organized club. It is open to anyone who has an interest in geology, oceanography or the environment. Please contact professor McAninch at mcanincb@sunyocc.edu.