End of Year Bash

End of Year Bash was last night and the turnout was absolutely fabulous! At noon we gave away free lunch along with a concert by Raining Jane. The girls put on a great show and we had about 1000 or so students attend.
After the concert the Balloon Prize Scavenger Hunt kicked off. There were 75 balloons around campus with a number in each one. Students started in the lounges and when we said go they all ran out to get a balloon, then brought it back, popped it and got a prize. Each balloon had a prize and many students were really satisfied. One of the goals chairing the event was to reward students and help them celebrate another year completed. I believe we met this goal by giving away so many great prizes to so many students.
Later that night, the semiannual break dancing competition, Bust-A-Groove took place. There were dance crews from all around who came with their best routines and moves. It started with a poppin' contest of six individuals. I was amazing at the talent that had come out that night. Those boys moved their bodies with great confidence, style and personality. Then a battle of 3 on 3 between five crews battled it out.
After, DJ Cameron put on an awesome dance party from 9-midnight. The dance was well attended and everybody was having a great time. In the middle, a light stand got nocked over by somebody and it came crashing down and cut a guys head open. It was bleeding pretty bad, but we got it under control and took him to the hospital.
All in all the day turned out to be one of the greatest day of the semester. This was the only the second year of End of Year Bash and it was a great improvement upon last year and we are excited to do if next year for the third time.

Prize Hunting

Over the past two days, Emma, Josh, Tyler, Leezanna, Rachael and I have been hunting for prizes for End of Year Bash. On Friday we are having a big event to celebrate the school year and we are going to reward students with some awesome prizes. We have over $500 in gift cards to various restaurants and then some great prizes such as digital camcorders, a digital camera, Nintendo DS, Nintendo DSi, $125 gift certificates to the bookstore, hoodies, t-shirts, board games, a tent, ipod shuffles and movie tickets. Friday April 10th at 1:30 will be the greatest prize raffle that Utah State has ever seen!

Raising Mali

The Val R. Service Center at Utah State University as raised over $2000 for the middle school in Mali Africa. That has all been done in two days and we are hoping to raise over $3000 at the end of Service Week.

Service Week is Off to a Good Start

Service weeks theme is Rising to the Challenge and the main project is Mali Rising. Utah State is raising money to build a middle school is Mali, Africa. All the proceeds from the weeks events will go will go towards this cause.
Monday was a great day to start off the week. Starting with free breakfast in the TSC, students came and got involved in the USU vs. Weber blood battle and helped STAR and Storytellers with their orphanage service project. Monday night was $1 mini golf at the Willows miniature golf course and over $100 was raised for Mali rising!
I am excited for the rest of service week, it's going to be awesome!

Twitter

Last week my brother emailed me telling me to sign-up for Twitter. Once I signed up I was he told me to look him up and then follow his tweets. I didn't know what tweets were and I didn't even know the purpose of Twitter.
Once I signed up it was so simple that it was hard. I didn't know what to type and where to type it at. When really it's the easiest thing in the wold. It's a personal blog that can't be more than 150 characters long. On the home page it has a text box that asks 'What are you doing?' and that's it.
They say Twitter is great for networking but honestly I don't see how, but I continue to Twitter because it is fun and continues to waste my time while on the computer. Hopefully as I Twitter more and more I will discover this 'network' that it is intended for.

Being PR Director

I am so excited for the 2009-2010 school year. I was just appointed the PR director for the Val R. Christensen Service Center. This new position will give me a lot of hand on PR experience. I will be working with a great council that will do great things for the service center!