The Florida Chapter hosted Drew Ratterman of Dow AgroSciences and the AZ Foundation while he was in for a career expo sponsored by the UF College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. After a long flight from Indianapolis, we took Mr. Ratterman to dinner at the Swamp Restaurant, a must-visit for anyone touring Gainesville. Members gathered for a discussion of Mr. Ratterman's involvement with Alpha Zeta as a former member of the Auburn Chapter as well as a tasty dinner...

Members of the Florida chapter headed to the O’Connell Center, the Odome as students call it, on campus to cheer on their UF Gator gymnasts as they face the LSU Tigers. The gymnastics meet was not like any other it was this years Link to Pink meet. Breast cancer awareness and support was the emanating theme of the meet. Gymnasts sporting pink leotards and pink all over the fans helped show our support to the survivors who were in attendance at the meet...

The Florida Chapter of Alpha Zeta holds a series of rush events each semester to allow potential members the opportunity to interact with current members and find out a little bit more about what Alpha Zeta is at UF. The week starts out with an informational meeting letting the prospective members learn about our history, our pledging process, and why they should join. The rush events for this year consisted of our annual event bat watching with the Chancellor, and a few new events like beach volleyball and bowling....

On October 25th, Alpha Zeta with other student organizations offered seminars for undergraduate students of the faculty. In this seminar, they informed the students about the different programs and opportunities that are available in different universities and agencies of the United States.

For Thanksgiving time, the Agriculture faculty traditionally prepares a dinner for its students and colleges. This year we were asked to prepare a thanks giving dynamic, for which we contacted a deaf student that helped us interpret a song in sign language, giving thanks for all of our blessings.

On the 23rd of September, the building Jose T. PIñero was converted into a farmer’s market with free tasting samples of local coffee, corn and mango ice cream. Around the building, we had the different machinery, photographs and equipment used through time. In this activity, students, ex alumni, farmers professors as well as the people of the community celebrated the passing 100 years of the agricultural faculty. In this exciting activity, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) gave the campus their trademark as a gift of appreciation for all the years of collaborative service. We as Alpha Zeta members helped in the organization before, during and after the celebration. Some of the members and students from different organizations had the honor of planting the tree symbolic of the one hundred years of the faculty.

On October 13, 2011 in the department of Biology was the premier of "The Last Harvest”. A documentary  about life in the coffee farms in Puerto Rico that are on the board of extinction because the coffee it is not getting picked and  the economical effect that the coffee berry borer has. The members were invited to this documentary in order to receive knowledge of the issues in the coffee industry since we were going to pick up coffee during the season.

Terrace is near campus residential community. Alpha Zeta Puerto Rico helped in the voluntary project "Terrace Recycles” that brings together temporary collage students as well as permanent residences with the objective of a better community lifestyle and environment, by creating awareness of the contamination of the natural resources, water and air pollution. In this activity we promoted this project inside the campus by the distribution of flyers, orientation and with a shirt sale that encourages students to recycle that raised money for future activities. This was a tremendous opportunity to create conscious about the environment by promoting how and where to recycle. Also members helped promote Terrace’s eco-friendly workshops and educational activities like the "Recycling of Televisions” and "How to Re-Use” workshop.

During October 4^th 2011, AZ attended to seminars related to the loss of agricultural lands in Puerto Rico. The topics covered were the construction of windmills in fertile lands, Northern Natural Gas pipeline and the construction of roads in fertile lands. 

The chapter was invited to Escuela Prof. Juana Rosario in Aguada were a table was reserved to the chapter so we could inform the high school students what kind of job opportunities they would have with the Agricultural, Animal Science, Soils and other related bachelors degrees that the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez Campus offer. The students were informed with one-on-one conversations with students and were also informed with the various brochures that the chapter created...