{"id":17983,"date":"2023-10-31T15:47:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T15:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/?p=17983"},"modified":"2023-10-31T15:49:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T15:49:09","slug":"prssa-attends-icon-convention-in-nashville-tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/blog\/2023\/10\/31\/prssa-attends-icon-convention-in-nashville-tennessee\/","title":{"rendered":"PRSSA Attends ICON Convention in Nashville, Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The WCU Public Relations Student Society of America chapter, PRSSA, attended the International Conference, ICON, from Friday, Oct. 13 to Monday, Oct. 16 in Nashville, Tennessee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cEach day was an exciting opportunity to attend award and networking breakfasts, keynote speakers, and smaller group sessions with professionals in a variety of industries,\u201d said Mary Grayson Day, WCU PRSSA president.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over 500 students from universities across the United States, Argentina, Colombia, and Peru attended the ICON this year for PRSSA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cNetworking was the name of the game,\u201d said Day. \u201cOur chapter was able to attain moments of collaboration, ideas, successes, and \u201chappenings\u201d from members of chapters nationwide.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the traditions of ICON for PRSSA is the roll call. Each university in attendance has their name called and are given the opportunity to chant or sing their fight song.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe most notable highlight of the trip was the roll call,\u201d said Day. \u201cWe had been anticipating this moment and it had finally arrived. WCU was last on the list of chapters, when the time finally came, eight catamounts stood up chanting the last line of our fight song. All red in the face from both nervousness and school spirit we were able to share a moment of school pride and laughter.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">PRSSA at WCU has more events planned coming up over the course of the remainder semester and is already planning for next semester.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe have an upcoming trip to Cherokee Hospital at the end of the month,\u201d said Day. \u201cWe hope to collaborate with a few student resources on campus for engaging events and outreach.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more information about what PRSSA is and their upcoming events, follow them on instagram at @wcu_prssa1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WCU Public Relations Student Society of America chapter, PRSSA, attended the International Conference, ICON, from Friday, Oct. 13 to Monday, Oct. 16 in Nashville, Tennessee. \u201cEach day was an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3345,"featured_media":17984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17987,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17983\/revisions\/17987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}