<p>I heard about this organization from this site, actually, and for someone who enjoys math and needs some ec's/leadership, it sounds like an interesting thing to start at my school.</p>
<p>I would really like some information from people involved in Mu Alpha Theta such as:
-what you do at meetings
-if you do any community service through it and if so, what kind
-how you get people interested.<br>
And of course:
-is it really that great of a program?</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I can't help you with any of these questions, but I was tickled to see that Mu Alpha Theta still exists! I was in it back in the 60's; there weren't too many girls so I had the honor of having what some members considered the most important office--Refreshment Chairman!!! No one had ever heard of women's lib, gender sensitive terms, or political correctness.</p>
<p>Good luck with starting up a group.</p>
<p>I love Mu Alpha Theta!
At our meetings, we typically sit around and talk about what sort of community service we're going to do and when people are going to tutor. We all buy presents for kids who can't get them at Christmas, and we tutor younger students after school two days a week.
As for getting people interested, I don't know what to say, exactly. My school is a nerd school with more math geeks than the norm, but even people who are ordinarily not that interested in math will join to tutor. Whenever people start a new club at my school, they put posters everywhere and sometimes have the people who make announcements talk about it, and then they make all the people they know come to the first meeting and make it sound as cool as possible, but I don't know what sort of people are at your school and how it would work for you. I bet you'll get interested people, though, because of the innate coolness of the program. :-)
If you haven't figured it out by now, I really like Mu Alpha Theta and think that it's a great program! Best of luck to you in starting up your own branch.</p>