Student Organizations

Students Have Helped Drive Many Campus and Community Innovations

There are a variety of student organizations at Florida Tech that work directly & indirectly on sustainability issues, often together (e.g., Earth Week, Homecoming, etc.).  Access to information on all Florida Tech student organizations is easy using Engage.  Student organizations working sustainability issues include: 

• Student Organization for Sustainability Action (SOSA) is a student-led club working to bring sustainable practices to the Florida Tech campus and surrounding Space Coast Community. SOSA hosts projects and events tied to academic sustainability initiatives, sustainability education, and building community. Projects include Spring and Fall semester Earth Week events, running the campus thrift store, and volunteering with local community organizations including Space Swap and Little Growers.  
  
  
• Residence Life Sustainability Committee: This committee is composed of Residence Hall Advisors and Directors from all campus housing areas.  These undergraduate and graduate students created the Ethos Community Garden, manage the Leave Green program to recycle materials during the end-of-year move-out, and manage other campus energy and recycling projects. 
  
  
• Florida Tech Student Government Association (SGA): SGA acts as a liaison between the student body, faculty, staff, and administration with the purpose of improving campus experiences for every member of the Florida Tech community. SGA is a leading partner and founder of many sustainability initiatives at Florida Tech, including the Solar Tables, Homecoming, the Formal Attire Closet, and more!
  
  
• Keuper Environmental Association (KEA) is the student organization dedicated to the care and upkeep of the Joy and Gordon Patterson Botanical Garden, as well as the Resident Quad Community Gardens. We host monthly clean-ups of the gardens and run walking tours for the public and students/staff to learn about the its history and plant inhabitants. Our goal is to provide a chance for all students to learn about plants, gardening, nature, and to experience the Botanical Gardens for themselves.
  
  
• Sustainability Outdoors Adventure Recreation Survival: SOARS was founded by Eagle Scouts to instill scouting principles into a Florida Tech outdoor organization. The focus is on adventures including camping, hiking, fishing, backpacking, sustainability, conservation, and wilderness survival. SOARS members aspire to not only have a great time but to also further their love and knowledge for the outdoors, and to help each other grow as people.
  
  
• Ethos Community Garden Club: Operates the community garden which generates food harvests from the Residential Quad on campus.  This work includes organizing volunteers and renters, maintaining garden production, and sustaining sponsor relationships.  The club catalyzes student involvement in the garden and helps advance sustainability on campus and in the community.
  
  
• Squamish: SQUAMISH is an environmentally-focused student group with interests in activism, awareness, sustainability, and social networking. SQUAMISH has led Jungle clean-ups throughout our wonderful botanical gardens since the 1970s, led beach cleanups, and promote the reuse and repurposing of materials through our artistic campus engagement events. Spreading love for nature and free-minded thinking since 1968!

To add your student organization to this list, please contact sustainability@fit.edu.