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This year Beta Chi has completed and participated in a lot of amazing events. This February we had 30 girls participated in the University of Kentucky Dance Blue marathon. The marathon raised over 1.6 million dollars for the Golden Matrix Fund, which supports the kids of Dance Blue Kentucky Children’s Hospital Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Clinic. During the month of February Beta Chi also competed in a Philanthropic Event on campus called Greek Sing. Our theme was “Kappavengers” modeled after the Avenger movies. During this event our team came in 2nd place. Another event Beta Chi participated in this past spring was Stompapalooza, a step competition. Our theme for this event was “Ghost Busters”. The girls that participated had a great time learning the dance, making costumes, and performing for a great cause.

In April, we hosted our spring philanthropy event called Kappa Bowl. We paired with Kappa Alpha, the Fraternity, and had a soccer tournament with a twist. Participants dressed up in inflatable balls and played soccer. This made the game very fun to play and entertaining to watch. Out event was opened to not only the Greek community but also the campus community.

During the summer Beta Chi had 4 members attend the Kappa Convention. At the Convention Beta Chi was inducted in the Adelphi Award and was an honorable mention for the Gracious Living Award. Our members had a great time at the Convention and learned a lot of new information that our chapter has benefited from.

As fall quickly approached, we were preparing for a record amount of PNM’s coming in for recruitment. We had amazing return rates and got 98 amazing new members that we are extremely proud of. Recruitment was fun and exciting, as everyone in the chapter got closer.

In the fall, we paired with Triangle fraternity for our philanthropy event called Greek Siege. This is a water event, we have 3 different activities for teams to compete in such as fort building, water balloon fights, and water slide kickball. Once again this event is a blast to participate in and exciting to watch.

This fall Beta Chi was very excited to host another Philanthropy event with the Chi Psi fraternity called the Run Forrest Run .5K. This event was a hit, participants completed a .5 mile run then enjoyed some shrimp and the Forrest Gump Movie. In November Beta Chi also hosted “Kappa Kindness Week” throughout the week Kappas participated in random acts kindness such as free doughnuts or buying someone Starbucks. We also raised pop can tops for the Ronald McDonald house, visited the hospital for Hospice Appreciation week, and made tie blankets. To celebrate the end of the week we had a RIF event at Picadome Elementary here in Lexington. This semester alone Beta Chi completed 2,729 service hours as a chapter. To end the semester, we celebrated with decorating the house for Christmas and attending a University of Kentucky Hockey game. To conclude this semester was filled with philanthropy and sisterhood.

This year the ladies at Beta Chi grew closer to one another but also closer to the University. We joined many more clubs and activities on campus and are very involved outside of Kappa. We participated and hosted many philanthropy events. We had amazing sisterhood events that showed our unbreakable bond and fun we are able to share with each other and our campus.

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