Session 14 - Parliamentary Resources, Parliamentarians, and Events - April 23

Responses to your ticket outs from Session 14!

What are you curious about?

• How to write a Parliamentary Opinion with proper layout and presentation
• Final format?
• There will be two sections: 5 research questions (open book) and 45 multiple choice (closed book) questions.
• Question banks for the final?
• The question banks handed out before the midterm and today (which will be online soon!) are a great resource to study from BUT, unlike the midterm, the questions will NOT necessarily be verbatim from the question banks.
• Congressional Parliamentarians
• Congress uses a different parliamentary authority that was developed by Thomas Jefferson and is based off the historic procedure in use by the British Parliament.
• You can learn learn about the position of the Parliamentarian of the House here.
• More opportunities for Parliamentarians in college
• I'm sure there are organizations that would love a Parliamentarian - for instance the UPUA as discussed today. Taking a gander through clubs.psu.edu might yield some helpful results.
• Potentially getting Lorenzo to come to Penn State.
• Talking to Lorenzo more often throughout the semester

What did you learn?

• Competition opportunities
• How to apply Robert's in everyday life after this class
• Parliamentarians make more money than I thought in a short amount of time
• UPUA is looking for a Parliamentarian for this upcoming year
• FFA Parli Pro is intense!
• Employment opportunities as a Parliamentarian, up to making it a full-time profession
• Chairing can be difficult but is a lot of fun!
• About the National Association of Parliamentarians (NAP), the Society for Agricultural Education Parliamentarians (SAEP), and the American Institute of Parliamentarians (AIP) and how to register
• National parliamentary procedure from Lorenzo
• Lorenzo has a biology degree, proving that you can be a successful Parliamentarian no matter what your background is
• Working in our pods was more successful
• Final
• Parliamentary opinion

What do you want to learn more about?

• How to make organizations listen to Parli Pro so that business can be conducted more efficiently and effectively
• Teaching
• Job opportunities in other cities that I can do with accreditation 
• Check with your institution that grants you your accreditation
• Youth competitions
• Organizations like the FBLA, FFA, FCCLA, HOSA, BPA, TSA, and SkillsUSA (dark green handout) are a great place to start
• Paying dues, the accreditation, and the value of these
• Personally, I think it's worth it - there are so many opportunities for working with kids and teenagers, teaching, earning money both on the side and full time, etc. Most of the places I have applied to for jobs have mentioned that they were very interested in my accreditation. 
• Since the final next week, which doubles as the accreditation exam, is free thanks to Dr. Foster, definitely absolutely at least attempt the accreditation! You have nothing to lose and, of course, you have to take the final! ;)

Good luck on the final!