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|Founded= {{start date and years ago|1927|02|25}}
|College= [httphttps://www.uwyo.edu/ University of Wyoming]
|Location= Laramie, WY
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'''University of Wyoming, established in 1886 in Laramie, Wyoming'''
'''2,110 097 initiates (as of June 20172018)'''
Gamma Omicron continues to raise money for Kappa Kappa Gamma's national philanthropy, Reading is Fundamental, the Kappa foundation and our local philanthropy, The Safe Project. Through events such as the Mr. Wyoming Pageant and the Kappa Kookout. Gamma Omicron also participated in Safe Treat, a local, safe trick or treating option for small children on campus. Participated in the Big Event, a city community service event.
Gamma Omicron choose to donate money to the Safe Project because their mission is to advocate for and empower survivors of stalking, intimate partner, family and sexual violence. Their education and awareness efforts are focused on prevention and improved community response. The women of Gamma Omicron believe that it is important to empower those who feel unsafe. Gamma Omicron also enjoys helping with the Big Event (a community wide service event.) because we believe that the community has supported us and given us so much that it is important to give back. ==Highlights of 2018== 2018 started off with the installation of our new chapter officers. Shelby Bell finished up her term as ASUW Liaison and Savannah Rutsch was elected as the Panhellenic Vice President of Programming. Spring Recruitment brought us eight new members. In April, Gamma Omicron hosted its 14th annual Mr. Wyoming spring philanthropy. One of our sisters was selected as the Emerging Leader of the Year at the Fraternity and Sorority Life Awards. Gamma Omicron also won Sigma Chi Derby Days this year.
The first large event after returning from summer was Fall Recruitment where the chapter welcomed 35 new members. We also tried a new Fall philanthropy: Kappa Karnival where we had carnival games, snacks and raffles.
Our campus welcomed a new fraternity, Alpha Sigma Phi, and a new sorority, Alpha Phi, will come to campus in the next year. Fraternity and Sorority Life has been working hard to increase the number of Greek Life members. The old Pi Beta Phi chapter house is also being remodeled in order to be used by an active fraternity or sorority.
Gamma Omicron supports the Albany County Safe Project as its philanthropy. We believe supporting this organization is a great opportunity.
==Highlights of 2019==
Gamma Omicron supports the Albany County Safe Project because their mission is to advocate for and empower survivors of stalking, intimate partner, family and sexual violence. This year we were also able to participate in their Take Back the Night event. Safe Project has made a huge difference in our community and we feel lucky to have been able to support them for multiple years.
In the spring our chapter had many things planned that were affected by COVID. We planned on having formal, Mr. Wyoming (our philanthropy event), initiation, and many more events. Everything got cancelled when we all went home for spring break and never returned until the fall. However before we went home for spring break we participated in Panhellenic book club and a social with SigEp on March 7th. In spring 2020 we were supposed to have Greek Week but it sadly got cancelled. We still received the Outstanding Community Service award for book buddies, Outstanding Philanthropic endeavor award for Mr.Wyoming, and the Impact award for Mr.Wyoming. Upon the return of our members in the fall our Chapter Council had to figure out how to hold safe events and meetings due to COVID. We settled on having meetings on Zoom and having hybrid committees and events. Our work week was held virtually from August 16th-21st on Zoom. This was a big change from normal where we are normally in person. We also practiced what recruitment would look like if it was held virtually. Our recruitment was held virtually after many changes to the original hybrid in person plan. Recruitment was held on September 10th-13th. We utilized break rooms to have one on one conversations with PNM’s. We had bid day on September 14th which was held virtually on Zoom. We once again utilized break rooms for active members to meet the new members. Formal Pledging was held on September 21st on Zoom. Just like in the spring our members participated in Panhellenic Book Club. Our chapter decided to do a philanthropic t-shirt drive for Albany County SAFE project. Big-Little Reveal was on October 20th for our new members. We had Initiation from November 4th - 7th. All of our Initiation events were held on Zoom.
Our chapter supports our Fraternity philanthropy, Reading is Fundamental. We also support our local philanthropy, Albany County SAFE project. We also do book buddies with our local schools.
We love working with Albany County SAFE project because they have a great message. They help with domestic violence, stalking, sexual assault, etc. We also love participating in book buddies with our local schools because it involves our chapter with more reading events.
Our chapter celebrated Kappa’s 150th anniversary with the Founder’s Day Ceremony. We also watched the Facebook live celebration that was held by the Fraternity. Our kitchen also made special blue cupcakes to celebrate the 150 years!
==Highlights of 2021==
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We support the Albany County Safe Project as our local philanthropy because our chapter really appreciates the help they give the community and how they help people in general. We also really think that helping people in need is extremely important and having the resources they provide is super important especially since they help support people on the University of Wyoming Campus as well. We also raised/donated $10,350.23 for the Albany County Safe Project in 2021. We also support our local Veterans community. We support them because we want them to know that they are loved and appreciated, and that people do care about/for them. Gamma Omicron supported them by making them holiday cards for them, Christmas/winter holiday, valentines, Halloween, etc. We also had a totally of 704 hours of service hours for a variety of local philanthropies that members in our chapter completed.
This year we raised $4,228.49 for our Kappa philanthropy by hosting our Kappa Cookout event. We also did some mental health awareness tabling. For this we tabled and talked to
community members about mental health and asked them to sign a pledge to support mental health. We also had information about mental health statistics, and we gave out
stickers that said “mental health matters”.
We added a DEI officer in the fall of 2021. We also really talked about and discussed DEI during our work week. We also had a Bias training in the spring of 2021.
In the 2021-year Covid-19 changed a lot of our chapter functions. At the start of 2021 we held almost every single event online. We changed all of our meetings to be held on zoomand practically all paperwork that had been done by hand on paper was now done online. We held zoom ritual reviews where we learned our ritual and chaotically sung over zoom. Wealso held virtual initiations that looked very different than what we do in person but that still went well. Due to having Chapter meetings online we started having themed meeting wherewe would dress up as a specific theme. Those were really fun. We also held a few socials online with other chapters as well as a few online sisterhoods. As we transitioned into the fall school semester we have transitioned back into in-person meetings, ritual reviews, initiation, fundraisers, and events while still taking precautionsagainst Covid-19, such as mask-wearing and social distancing, and making online options for members who are sick. This fall specifically we were able to do move-in in-person. ==Highlights of 2022==
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