WHAT IS OUR PURPOSE?
Entomology Appreciation
The club provides an opportunity for anyone at the University of Kentucky
who has an interest in entomology to get together. The biggest purpose
of our club is to serve as the student voice in departmental functions
and community service activities and as a means of circulating information
of importance to graduate students and staff. We participate in many functions
in the College of Agriculture and in the Department of Entomology. The
members of our club serve as leaders at the departments annual Insect Walk
at Raven Run, many members judge area science fairs, give presentation
to elementary students, and participate in the AgRound for College of Agriculture
and Princeton Field Day for UK extension. Club members often go out to
elementary schools, and Earth Day celebrations to show people about the
wonders of entomology and recently at the 1996 Entomological Society National
meeting in Louisville, KY, members presented a puppet theater for the 2000
elementary students who visited the INSECT EXPO. We have recently taken
on the task of learning the skills necessary to make our own web page and
hope to be giving an informative presentation of the department and entomology
club members as graduate students. We are also involved in a variety of
outside activities from t-shirt design contests,
insect collecting trips,
potlucks, and softball competitions against the faculty (which we often
lose), which bring individuals together and build a spirit of cooperation.
Student Choice Speakers
Another responsiblity of the club is to select a student choice seminar
speaker each year. We are given the opportunity to select one speaker a
year from anywhere in the USA to come and give a departmental seminar.
This not only provides us with the opportunity to hear a seminar by an
expert in a chosen field, but it also allows us to interact with a well-respected
individual for several days and in a variety of activities. These activities
not only include intellectually stimulating conversations about the newest
trends in entomology, but also include times to eat, drink, and visit Kentucky
whiskey distilleries, horse farms, and nature reserves!
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