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Meet our 2020-2021 P.E.T.E. Committee Chairs!

The P.E.T.E. Project is excited to announce our 2020-2021 Committee Chairs! We selected two AMAZING P.E.T.E. Project Members from a pool of applicants and found them to be the best of the bunch! We look forward to all the great things our chairs are going to do for the group. Check them out below!

Cora Griffin

Social Media Chair

Hometown: Lawrence, Kansas

Major and Option: Applied Exercise Science Pre-Med

What are your favorite things to do in your free time? I enjoy watching Netflix, hanging out with friends, photography, traveling, and babysitting my nephews.

What are you looking forward to the most about being an executive team chair? One of the things that I am most excited about being the social media chair is being able to turn the P.E.T.E Project Instagram into a reflection of our group and something we can all be proud of and see ourselves on.

What do you love about being an OSU student? I love the community that being an OSU student brings. As soon as I stepped on campus, I felt like I was home.

Why did you select your major and what are your future career goals? I chose my major because I want to be a pediatric physical therapist, I felt like not only is applied exercise science interesting, but it would help me reach that goal.

What are you looking forward to this year? I’m looking forward to continuing to connect with my fellow P.E.T.E. Project members and getting more involved at OSU.

What three words would your friends and family describe you as? Caring, organized, and determined

What is your favorite TV Show to binge-watch? Either Stranger Things or New Girl.

What is something unique about you? For six years, I had the hiccups every single day.

Emma Sparks

Outreach Chair

Hometown: Perkins, OK

Major and Option: Human Development and Family Science with an option in Family and Consumer Sciences Education 

What are your favorite things to do in your free time? I love to spend time with my family and friends watching netflix and going on road trips.

What are you looking forward to the most about being an executive team chair? I am most looking forward to getting to know, help, and plan super fun and engaging events for everyone in the P.E.T.E Project.

What do I like most about OSU? I love the welcoming community feeling I felt when I got here to OSU, it really does feel like a big family.

Why did you select your major and what are your future career goals? I have always had a passion for helping others and I wanted to do that through education. I chose HDFS with a FACS option because I will be teaching important life skills in order to succeed and thrive in their futures. I took these classes during high school and I truly think they were the most influential. My future career goal is to be a high school FACS teacher and work in state extension.

What I am looking forward to this year? I am looking forward to getting more involved on campus and really getting into my major and option.

What three words would your friends and family describe you as? Outgoing, Perfectionist, Caring

What is your favorite TV Show to binge-watch? I love Grey’s Anatomy and One Tree Hill. I have for sure seen them both 5+ times.