NORTHEAST PHI THETA KAPPA STATE OFFICERS ATTEND CONFERENCE -- Cody Burchell of Booneville and Joel Barron of New Site, members of Northeast Mississippi Community College’s Iota Zeta chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, serve as regional officers for the Mississippi – Louisiana Region of the organization. The duo along with five other members and three advisors recently attended the annual Regional Leadership Conference at Hinds Community College. Phi Theta Kappa officers are pictured with one of the guest speakers, Gay Saxon, director of corporate training and the Hinds Community College Eagle Ridge Conference Center. Pictured (l-r) are Rachel Swords, Hinds Community College, Rankin, secretary; Kimberly Watson, Hinds, Central District Representative; Stephen Frye, Copiah-Lincoln Mendenhall; Saxon; Joseph Summer, Copiah-Lincoln, LA Representative; Melanie Smith, Jones County Junior College, LA Representative; Joel Barron, vice-president, Northeast; Janet Koester, Hinds, president; Melody Brown, Meridian Community College, regional reporter; and Cody Burchell, Northeast, northern representative. Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society, headquartered in Jackson, is the largest honor society in American higher education with 1,250 chapters on two-year and community college campuses in all 50 of the United States, Canada, Germany, the Republic of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the British Virgin Islands, the United Arab Emirates and U.S. territorial possessions. More than two million students have been inducted since its founding in 1918, with approximately 100,000 students inducted annually.