Arkansas Engineers Abroad

I hope everyone is having a great semester thus far.  Arkansas Engineers Abroad will be having a meeting Wednesday February 29th at 6:00 pm in Bell 2268.  AEA has had a few meetings already to kick off the year but we are hoping to really get things started with this next meeting.  We recently spread the word about our group and our past trips to Freshman at the FEP recruiting fair in the Civil Lounge.  We are inviting any new and interested members we have met this new semester to participate in our next meeting.

Most of our current members went on our last trip to Belize this past December and did we mention to you all that it was COMPLETELY FUNDED?!  We have always done our own fundraising for all of our trips but this last semester we were really able to step things up.  We have raised over $11,000 from many events we hosted last semester as well as gathered funding from various departments in engineering.  And did we mention YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE A CIVIL ENGINEER to join AEA.  We love having many different disciplines at our fingertips because each one of us thinks in a different way. 

The agenda for the meeting is as follows:

Starting at 6:00 pm, Brad Ziegler, an executive with the Naturals, will be coming to talk to us about a fundraising opportunity with a lot of potential! Last year, the Naturals helped different organizations raise over $100,000!

Hopefully we can show the final T-shirt design as well as talk about other fundraising opportunities we have going on for this semester.

After, we would like to invite all new and current members of AEA and be there for officer elections.  As a new and developing organization we would like to keep the elections open even for new members to have the right to VOTE.  We will be adopting a new Constitution, written by one of our members Cody LaBarber, as of Wednesday to send in for our RSO paperwork. New members my nominate or cast a vote for any of the current members.  Once you have been an active member for a semester we would then love for you to run as well.

We are looking forward to growing as an organization! We will update our blog with our new officers who have been elected by a majority vote this Wednesday.