{"id":13473,"date":"2021-09-13T18:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T23:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=13473"},"modified":"2021-09-14T12:08:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T17:08:19","slug":"annual-activities-fair-is-huge-hit-post-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/13473","title":{"rendered":"Annual Activities Fair is huge hit, post-COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Kassidy Hart–<\/strong> Morningside students from all different groups on campus came together to represent and gain exposure at the annual activities fair on Wednesday, September 1, down the Hilker Campus Mall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cApproximately thirty different student organizations were in attendance,\u201d Student Government Director of Communications, Collin Adank, said. \u201cI am unsure and would be afraid to guess [how many students showed up], however, it was a great turnout. It was so good to see students interacting again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Groups were invited to claim a table and create displays with awards and accomplishments, to reach new students on campus and provoke interest in membership. These clubs ranged from political and professional honor societies to more light-hearted, and hobby centered clubs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo courtesy of Caleb Lubbers<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[Sinfonia was] out [there] to gather more people who love music as much we do,\u201d junior Sinfonia officer Jaden Anderson said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outside of just recruiting new members, clubs also found this to be a great opportunity just to get the word out about who they are and what they do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe [tried] to spread the word about the Mass Comm department by telling them about the radio station and Collegian Reporter,\u201d said sophomore Payton Miller. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Considering that this year\u2019s activities fair was post-COVID and had little restrictions regarding social distancing and masks, activities\u2019 members saw a significant outcome from students across campus as they walked down the mall and asked the clubs questions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think that there was great participation this year,\u201d President of Morningside Republicans Garrett Anderson said. \u201cWatching so many people come and listen to each club\u2019s spiel, even if they were only stopping by in between classes, speaks a lot about the freshmen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other than it being closer to a normal start of the semester, orientation activities had also just ended for freshmen. Orientation was a bit different this year, as the Marketing department planned multiple activities, like bringing in local food trucks and hosting a scavenger hunt with prizes, to get freshmen comfortable on campus before classes started. This opened a door for them to easily get acquainted with going to Morningside events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo courtesy of Caleb Lubbers<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy roommate told me about the teaching clubs to sign up for, so I thought I\u2019d come just to check it out,\u201d freshman Alexa Noonan said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students from across campus showed up to hear about clubs and activities Morningside offers, gaining more insight into them through the great participation of the groups themselves. In the future, student government, with the help from University Engagement, Student Life, and Central Scheduling, and the physical plant, hopes to have even more groups on campus participate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt would be neat to have 100% student group attendance. However, due to scheduling that is not always feasible,\u201d Adank said. \u201c[Also, e]nhancing the event to become not just the student event but also a community event. I enjoyed seeing some faculty and staff interacting with student groups at the fair this year. I believe collaboration is one of the keys to success.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Kassidy Hart– Morningside students from all different groups on campus came together to represent and gain exposure at the annual activities fair on Wednesday, September 1, down the Hilker Campus Mall. \u201cApproximately thirty different student organizations were in attendance,\u201d Student Government Director of Communications, Collin Adank, said. \u201cI am unsure and would be afraid…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":13474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13473"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13485,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13473\/revisions\/13485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}