I am the President of Austin Peay State University Psychology International Honor Society. One of my duties, and the biggest duty I have, is to get our school into a Psychology Conference.
We went to SEPA (SouthEastern Psychological Association) last year, and this year, I am planning on taking 10 students to SEPA once again.
About SEPA Welcome to the official Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA) website. Founded in 1955, SEPA is the largest psychological organization in the southeast and one of largest in the United States. Originally comprised of psychologists in the southeastern states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Puerto Rico, our members for many years retained their membership and involvement when they moved to other parts of the country. With the 1999 revision of our Constitution, we acknowledged the broadly national flavor of our membership by officially welcoming the membership of psychologists from any state who are interested in the mission and affiliations of SEPA. The purpose of SEPA is to advance psychology as a science, as a profession, and as a means of promoting human welfare. Our mission is to stimulate the exchange of scientific and professional ideas across the diverse areas of psychological inquiry and application. The professional members of SEPA hold positions in settings such as universities, colleges, business and industry, hospitals and clinics, government, and private practice. In these and other settings, the psychologists of SEPA teach, conduct research, engage in psychological assessment and therapy, serve as administrators and consultants, and publish scholarly works on all aspects of the human experience. The student members of SEPA, from psychology undergraduate and graduate programs throughout the southeast and beyond, reflect the varied interests of their mentors in the behavioral sciences, from the functions of the brain to the actions of nations. SEPA is unique in many ways. As the first regional psychological association to establish a committee to enhance the role of women in the organization, the mandate of that early committee has subsequently been expanded to include psychologists in underrepresented groups broadly (Committee on Equality of Professional Opportunity, or CEPO). SEPA was also the first regional psychological association to provide continuing education workshops for its members (popular in early days not only for their breadth of scholarship, but also for their location on the cruise ships of the Caribbean). SEPA has historically celebrated the diversity within psychology, and today, the Awards Program of SEPA is designed to encourage and reward presentation of the highest quality research by our professional and student members in both popular and traditionally underrepresented fields of psychological inquiry. SEPA's Annual Convention is where it all happens! Symposia and posters, invited experts, award winners, old and new friends meeting at social hours to catch up, network, spark new ideas, plan collaborations, or just relax and enjoy good food and good company in the ambiance of the South. Membership in the Southeastern Psychological Association is open to students and professionals who share our interests and goals in psychology and would like to join us in this mission.
In order to get 10 students to go to the SEPA convention, I need to raise $3,896.45 to cover the cost of the hotel. Anything over that amount will cover the gas it will take to take 3 vehicles from Clarksville TN to Atlanta GA and back. We will not be driving around town, as everything fun to do is within 1 mile of the convention and we can walk.
2. If you can spare any money to donate yourself, I would greatly appreciate it!
I know it is a huge long shot to ask on here, so if you can't donate, I am hoping you will be awesome and share my GFM page.
If I can make this trip to the convention possible for 10 students, it will be my biggest accomplishment! We have a fundraiser going on: Choose Your Torture - where people donate money on campus and if we reach our goal of $1000 through this fundraiser, than I will draw a name from a bin of everyone who donated money and they get to choose what tattoo I will get and where it will go (so long as it won't keep me from getting hired anywhere). There will be other levels before this that will also have me doing crazy things when those goals are reached. We haven't decided what those are yet, but on September 2nd, we will have a torture for each level raised.
We are also having a Halloween party where our ticket proceeds go towards the SEPA convention. I just wanted to let you all know that we are not solely relying on the GoFundMe account to raise the money! We will be doing other fundraisers through out the year.
Thank you so much for reading this blog! I appreciate your time it took to read this.
P.S. this post will give away my anonymity but, it's for a good cause.
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Note: Your GoFundMe has a type in the description that says the conference is March 2016.