Honors Satellite Seminar Series: A POWERful Opportunity
The 2006 Honors Satellite Seminar Series will be underway very soon. The Series is a powerful opportunity for your chapter to explore the 2006-08 Honors Study Topic, Gold, Gods, and Glory: The Global Dynamics of Power. As you explore the Topic, you can implement the Scholarship, Leadership, and Fellowship Hallmarks, fulfill your Five Star Requirements, and have powerful fun!
The Honors Satellite Seminars are more than just another lecture series. Each seminar is an opportunity to learn for the sake of learning, to explore ideas foreign to your own, to escape the restrictions of learning in a controlled classroom environment, and to speak out on issues that are relevant to your life. In short, the Satellite Seminars provide an opportunity for scholastic investigation, learning, and the sharing of information - key elements of the Scholarship Hallmark.
The Seminars allow chapters to implement the Leadership Hallmark of Phi Theta Kappa.- Use the Satellite Seminars as a team-building exercise. In planning to host the Satellite Seminars your team may go through periods of forming (team members get to know each other), storming (team members work out their differences), norming (team members set aside personal goals in exchange for team goals) and performing (individuals have to come together as a team, and the team is ready for the task at hand). Y our team may set rules of operation and interaction, and define roles for each group member.
- When hosting the Satellite Seminar Series on your campus, lead through goal-setting. Regardless of your chapter or college's purpose for hosting the Satellite Seminar Series, goal-setting is an excellent way to ensure your purpose is achieved. Consider setting goals for how many people will attend the seminars, what you hope to learn from the seminars, and how the seminars will impact your campus and the students who attend.
- If presented with obstacles in the planning process, take a rational approach to problem-solving, and think outside the box when determining solutions to problems. Be creative in your decision-making.
- When planning to host the Satellite Seminar Series, delegate tasks and empower chapter members to implement strategies that will improve the experience for all attendees.
Subscribing chapters may also incorporate scholarly Fellowship when hosting the Series.
- Consider providing refreshments before or after each seminar to encourage chapter members to mingle and get to know each other.
- Organize a fun ice-breaker before the seminar to help your audience members get to know each other and to facilitate dialogue.
- Conduct a trivia quiz related to the topic and give fun, themed prizes to the winner.
In addition to helping your chapter reach your goals in the Scholarship, Leadership, and Fellowship Hallmarks, you can use the Satellite Seminars to fulfill the requirements to become a Five Star Chapter.
- Hosting the Satellite Seminar Series counts as an activity related to the current Honors Study Topic, required in the two, three, four, and five-star levels.
- By following the guidelines outlined above for incorporating the Leadership and Fellowship Hallmarks, your Satellite Seminar Series can count towards fulfillment of the four or five-star level.
- Make the Satellite Seminar Series your college project and meet one of the requirements at the three-star level. To use the Satellite Seminar Series as a college project, you might partner with the college admissions office to employ the Satellite Seminars as a recruitment tool to attract outstanding high school students to the college. On the date of the final seminar, November 14, your chapter could organize an open-house for high school students to learn about the college and Phi Theta Kappa. Use the Satellite Seminars to demonstrate the educational opportunities that await them at your college.
Just the Facts: What is the Honors Satellite Seminar Series?
