Welcome, everyone. I'm here with Aaron and Shiraz to share some exciting opportunities available to you from IFTTT and skiffs I'm Jill golden your Student Affairs Committee Chair, I represent your needs. On the skiff sport and oversee travel grants.
I have to the Institute of Food technologists is the main professional organization for student food scientists around the world.
I FT connects industry, government and academia advancing the multi disciplinary facets of the science of food.
I FT has over 16,000 members from 97 countries with 48 sections in the US, Canada UK in Japan.
skiffs is the Southern California section of IFTTT skiff supports professionals and students in the Los Angeles and Orange County areas.
With monthly dinner meetings and annual suppliers that food industry conference and much more skiff support students with over 120 $5,000 in club funds scholarships and travel grants.
I have to annual meeting and food Expo brings together over 19,000 food professionals from around the globe.
At last year's meeting there were over 2400 exhibitor booths sharing innovative products and technology skiffs offers travel grants to club officers students participating in college bowl and product development competitions.
The ifta Student Association provides an opportunity for students to develop skills beyond the classroom to competition and leadership development workshops
The Southern California section of it. It is our local Association and Aaron will tell us about it.
Hi, I'm Aaron. I'm the president of the food science and technology. Student Association at Cal State LA is one of the students gifts representative representatives and I'm a member of service because I like the face to face interaction with professionals in my future field.
So the dinner meetings is skiffs are great opportunity for students to get involved in skiffs the location of the dinner meeting changes each month, allowing easy access from all areas of Los Angeles.
Speakers present up to date information on topics of interest to members, for instance, this year's topics included cannabis edibles coffee and sugar reduction.
These meetings as a possible job interview dress professionally and turn off your phone. You never know who you might meet and what opportunities may come your way. Lets you earn points towards travel grants and scholarships, just for attending.
So we also offer tours. If you attend in our meetings. You can stay updated once or twice a year skips offers THESE TOURS BEFORE the monthly meeting. This is a great opportunity to see food manufacturing and Southern California.
And then suppliers night occurs annually in March. This is the largest suppliers night in the country, with more than 550 exhibitors
Showcasing products for dairy meat, seafood bakery nutraceutical and pharmaceutical industries, it should be noted that suppliers night is not a career fair but inquiring about internships or scientific contacts is never a bad idea.
Taking business cards and learning about different companies and their capabilities, is what it's all about contact one of your student reps to volunteer and volunteering is required when applying for scholarships and travel grants.
The Southern California food industry conference skipping is an all day conference highlighting current topics with the focus this year on the future of food.
special guests will be giving presentations on sustainable agriculture and personalized nutrition.
So also be a product development competition for students. And as I mentioned before, volunteer opportunities are available, the conferences held the morning of suppliers night and there's special pricing for students.
Discuss provides a lot of opportunities for students on top of providing us with leadership opportunities gifts funds are student clubs offer scholarships travel grants IFTTT and special pricing for students who attend skits dinner meetings.
There's also college ball product development competitions and educational grants that benefit our food science programs now our coast and representative is going to take over and talk about scholarship opportunities.
Hello, my name is George and I'm the master student at Chapman University.
Why I'm a student member of skills is that skills provide me with the platform to develop my interpersonal skills and grow my professional network.
And why do you need to grow your professional network, I cannot emphasize the importance of networking, because once you come out of school. The one thing that is going to help you. Is your network to find jobs define the things that you need to be resourceful. You gotta like network.
You got a network of. And additionally, I'll be talking about scholarship opportunities because money that you need to find money to pay for school skills provides an opportunity called Fulbright scholarship
I own 20 to 30 applicants will be awarded power doll thousand dollars minimum for select students. The requirement is that you need to be active.
Participants of student clubs active volunteers for suppliers night and scare fake the applicant application deadline is during early March another
Opportunity is the travel grants to if the if the annual meeting happened last year. Add New Orleans and prior to that, it goes on Chicago
And you don't do not need to be scared about the travelling costs because Skips, skips provides dollar five $5 per person to own 25 applicants and the application deadline is during April.
The requirements is, again, you need to be active volunteers.
The key benefits of being a part of scarce as that's concerned if it is that you get access to resources such as john Lowe food science or technology magazine.
If the Career Center. If the Knowledge Center and if there's a membership, the student membership cost is $30 and scarce membership cost is $13 with access to the newsletter.
Now I'll be talking about frequently asked questions. What are the immediate benefits for signing up for it as a member, you get access to scarce man skills newsletter where you get the resources related to Korea. The resources related to companies in this geographic area.
Recognition for awards grants and other resources I FT dot o RG is one major resource where you get access to your career resources and social media resources discounted rates on admissions to if the annual Expo.
Can I still be a part of scarce and not sign up for ifta yes you can still be a part of skills and knowledge and apply it. However, I strongly recommend you to be a part of both
Because if it is the bigger picture and skills is a section of IOT, you start small and you can grow big into teifi
Now, Julie, or concluding the presentation. Thank you.
Thank you for your attention please contact us if you have any questions, we look forward to meeting you at our next event.