Minding Your Business: Area Meeting Wrap The Sigma Vibe | Fall 2021 The Notable Northeastern Region Area 1-3 meeting was held virtually on Saturday September 18th! This meeting was filled with exciting news and announcements. As we embark into our Centennial year, there are still many opportunities to get involved in Sigma including sitting on a Northeastern Region Committee, volunteering to help with Centennial execution, being active on the local level, or even planning to run for the upcoming Officer Election for the 2022-2024 SY. There were many amazing presentations, but the presentation that stood out most was Membership Presentation. Sorors, with Centennial Year right around the corner, it is vital that we bring as many inactive Sorors home to Sigma. We want to celebrate 100 years with all of our Sorors, and the only way we can do that is to get the Regional Not only can we uphold these hallmarks in Sigma, but we should be encouraged to use them across our life. The virtual conference was great and I am even more excited now to see what is in store for our beautiful sorority and the Northeastern Region. IES SupportS VotEr rEgIStratIon at nVCC Voting Rights is one of the 5 focus areas for the National Legislative Agenda. As a committee we choose to have annual programming around voter registration in efforts to help ensure our community is aware of the power of our vote. This year for the Social Action Committee’s Voter Registration Initiative we decided to focus on the local community colleges. We chose community colleges as a way to not only interact with the community, but also help encourage young people to become civically engaged. To accomplish this goal, we planned two voter registration events at the NOVA Loudoun and NOVA Woodbridge campuses. We also made sure all volunteers went through the VA Department of Elections Voter Registration training. During our tabling we had voter registration forms to sign up unregistered students, and created a specialized QR code for students who were unable to sign up during the duration of the events. Through these events we were able to table and meet students at both campuses. Many of the students we met were registered and so we used our presence on campus as an opportunity to remind them to exercise their right and vote in the upcoming general election. 4 them active again. The presentation left us with a strong sentiment to go out and encourage Sorors to reactive. Additionally, the presentation ended with 7 guiding principles: 1. Go After Dreams Not People 2. Love yourself and the rest will follow 3. Never lose your sense of wonder 4. You are capable of more than you know 5. No regrets in life. Just learned lessons. 6. Your only limit is YOU 7. Life goes by in a blink of an eye, so live YOUR life!
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