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Welcome Event – Friday 18th 6-9pm

To welcome the incoming cohort to Penn State, AWG has reserved a fire pit at 814 Cider Works for this Friday (August 18th) night from 6 – 9 pm. Please join us to kick off the new academic year!

Please bring chairs if you have them (very limited seating)! Also, there is a food truck at 814 if you want to eat, and cider of course. If you need a ride, please fill out this spreadsheet and we will try our best to find you a ride!

AWG Does Trivia!

AWG is excited to announce the return of AWG trivia! Trivia will be Friday March 31st at 6 PM in 22 Deike (the colloquium room).
Teams are capped at 6 people, and anyone is invited to play; undergraduates, grad students, postdocs, staff, faculty, family and friends. Once you have your team together, please have one team member (the ‘Team Captain’) fill out this google form.
This event will fundraise for our undergraduate scholarships, and as such it will be $5 per person to play. The team captain should pay our trivia master, Adam Benfield, for all the members of their team (i.e., if you have six people on your team you will pay Adam $30, if you have four, you’ll pay him $20). You can pay Adam via Venmo (Adam-Benfield-3, his picture is of a giant sequoia tree), or with cash – either in his mailbox or at the door.
 
If you have any questions, please reach out to trivia master Adam (ajb6052@psu.edu).

Field Camp Scholarship Sign-Up

The AWG field camp scholarships are now open for application!

Fill out this form if you would like to be considered.

Deadline to apply is April 1st.

These scholarships are AWG’s contribution to help make field camp more accessible for students who need to take the class as a program requirement.

Announcing Cheeze Night!

An AWG fundraiser to support undergraduate scholarships

Friday January 20th 6pm

The event will take place at our webmaster’s (Emilie) apartment. If you don’t know where it is, you can contact her via email: eps5654@psu.edu for the address.

There is a 10$ cover, which will include a whole variety of cheeses and associated snacks.

 

 

 

Announcing the 2022 AWG Pie Off!!!

Friday, October 21st at 6:00 pm at Miquela Ingalls and Max Lloyd’s house. The event will be in their back yard, please be respectful and carpool or bike/walk if you can!

All proceeds are matched and benefit undergraduate scholarships for field camp, grad school applications, and conferences. This is our biggest fundraiser of the year, so we would really appreciate your support (also, it is super fun).

Please sign up here

  • Pie a professor: $1 gets you a raffle ticket (you can buy as many as you want!) to pie a given professor.
  • Pie competition: $5 to enter your pie, which includes unlimited tasting of others’ pies. Don’t feel constrained to only sweet pies – savory pies are very welcome! No time to make a pie and want to just taste? No problem – $5 gets you unlimited tastings.
  • Pizza
  • Gluten-based adult drinks have been donated by Max Lloyd and Shelby Bowden. If you are gluten-free (or just want to bring something of your own), feel free to BYO!

AWG General Meeting

Our first General meeting is this Wednesday, September 14th at 17h30. Everyone is invited to join! Our execs will catch you up on what AWG has been up to and inform you about what’s coming. We will also be introducing this year’s executive committee, so this is the chance for you to get to know us and for us to get to know you!

We will also have a few activities to let members mingle, one of which will be a rock show and tell so please bring your favorite rock with you! Food will be provided during the meeting. We hope to see you all tonight!

AWG Pie Off!

Announcing the 2021 AWG Pie Off!!!

November 5th at 5:30 pm at Chris Marone and Eliza Richardson’s house

All proceeds go to benefit undergraduate scholarships for field camp, grad school applications, and conferences. This is our biggest fundraiser of the year, so we would really appreciate your support (also, it is super fun).

Please sign up here here

  • Pie a professor: $1 gets you a raffle ticket (you can buy as many as you want!) to pie a given professor.
  • Pie competition: $5 to enter your pie, which includes unlimited tasting of others’ pies. Don’t feel constrained to only sweet pies – savory pies are very welcome! No time to make a pie and want to just taste? No problem – $5 gets you unlimited tastings.
  • Pizza
  • Gluten-based adult drinks have been donated by Chris Marone, Max Lloyd, and Shelby Bowden. If you are gluten-free (or just want to bring something of your own), feel free to BYO!

COVID Precautions:

  1. The event will be primarily outside on Chris and Eliza’s patio (with a patio heater)
  2. We will try and maintain masking and distancing where possible
  3. Since this event necessarily involves close contact and some indoor activity, the Marone/Richardson household has requested that everyone who comes be fully vaccinated

Mentor-Mentee Match

The AWG mentor/mentee program will be hosting its annual match-up event, this Wednesday, October 6th from 5:00 –6:00pm, outside behind the Hintz Alumni building (google maps — underneath the tents).  We will have snacks, come hang out and meet potential mentors or mentees!

The program pairs undergraduate and graduate students in order to build relationships and provide a resource for advice on internships, finding research opportunities, applying to graduate school, career options, etc.  AWG will subsidize the cost for each mentor/mentee pair to go out for a coffee break or lunch once a month.  Undergraduate and graduate students, and all genders are encouraged to participate.  If you are unable to attend the event, you may sign up to be paired with a mentor or mentee at this link by OCTOBER 15.