On September 13th, Campolindo put together their annual Club Day event in the quad at lunch. The 112 campus clubs created advertisements and booths attempting to encourage members of the student body to join their efforts.
Some clubs present were WAC (Women’s Awareness on Campus) run by seniors Avery Appleton and Zoey Seamen, The Balloon Animal Club run by senior Sydney Fossen, and the Kindness Club run by sophomore Kendall Sliwinski.
The Balloon Animal Club is centered around “meeting new people and creating a place where anyone can come,” said Fossen. They meet every other Wednesday and “learn to make different balloon animals and have a new animal every week.” Fossen’s goal for club day was “to have more people join, potentially new freshmen who may feel like they don’t know where they belong on campus and…give them a warm welcome and make them feel invited.”
Kendall Sliwinksi said in her Kindness Club she “interviews students on how they think kindness could be spread easier on campus and then we promote it on social media and spread it around by doing good deeds.” She thought that club day “went very well. I’m happy that a lot of people signed up, we actually got 59 signups and we’re excited to hold our first meeting.”
Creating a positive club day experience year after year is “really impactful because it’s a way for students to bond over common interests and meet people they wouldn’t typically meet…also a lot of clubs point out important issues in society and nowadays help form better people” said senior Leadership student and Head of Student Affairs Kathrynanne Terry.
Detailed planning by Leadership preceded club day in order to ensure success. Terry said she wanted to “improve the organization this year because clubs were in the past just kind of randomly thrown around. I want[ed] all the diversity clubs to be in one area and the cultural clubs etc… so people who have a general idea of what clubs they want to join know where to go.”
Additionally Leadership has “held multiple academies, help[ed] people get their paperwork in…make their posters…and have given [their] supplies to help,” according to Terry.
Many students attended the event including, senior Bella Stratford and sophomore Cobie Freese. Stratford said she thought “Kathrynanne Terry did a really good job of organizing it.” She also said many clubs had intriguing decorations including “the robotics or aerospace engineering club had a lot of cool things set up on the table.”
Freese said “there were a lot of people at club day…and a lot of clubs with posters…candy to attract people and everyone was having a good time signing up and finding clubs to connect with.”
Overall students seemed to enjoy the highly energetic event and found a place in the Campo community.
