Hello everybody and welcome to the Engineering LLC. Nicole
Vigon, Aaron Siewert, and Charlie Ross are the resident assistants of the
Engineering LLC in South Tower. Nicole and Aaron are new resident assistants
this year, while this is Charlie’s second year of being a resident assistant.
Aaron is in his second year at UWM studying mechanical engineering. Nicole is
also a second year student at UWM, but is studying biomedical engineering. And
Charlie is a fourth year student at UWM studying mechanical engineering.
Charlie was one of the resident assistants on the all male floor in West Tower
last year. So this year, all three of us are new to South Tower as RAs and are
looking forward to running the Engineering LLC.
For our kickoff event, we wanted to host an
event that acted as an informative and fun activity to get our community
members involved and excited about their majors. This event also gave them a
wonderful opportunity to meet and become friends with fellow members of the
Engineering LLC. For our kickoff event, we thought it would be great to have
engineering student organizations make an appearance and present their
organization. This also acted as a recruitment event for the organizations and
allowed our residents to join this organizations very early in their
engineering collegiate years. We invited all of the engineering organizations
on campus, however, only four were able to make an appearance. Those four
organizations included: UWM Baja Society of Automotive Engineers, UWM Society
of Women Engineers, UWM Triangle Fraternity, and UWM American Society of
Mechanical Engineers.
After
each of those four organizations gave a presentation, the Engineering LLC members,
student organizations, Engineering RAs, and RLC Ethan Sykes all socialized
while eating pizza and drinking soda. This was a time where the RAs and Ethan
Sykes really initiated conversation amongst the LLC community members and got
them talking amongst each other by implementing a game. The game was people bingo,
where the LLC community members were given a sheet that had several questions
on it that required them to meet someone who met the requirements of the
question. For instance, one of the questions on the bingo sheet was to go and
meet three different people who also have your major. The intent of this game
was to get the LLC community members out of their comfort zone and initiate
conversation with new people. A major incentive to play the game, was that if
you completed the bingo sheet, you could win an Engineering LLC t-shirt.
All in all, the event lasted longer
than expected and the LLC community members really hit it off with each other. That’s
what we wanted to see for this kickoff event, and it certainly didn’t fail
considering the residents spent over an hour just socializing in Flicks. We
were very pleased to see the blooming and development of our LL community
members. A big concern for our LLC floors, was that most of the residents would
be overly introverted and not develop any sort of friendship with each other,
or develop community in the lounges and such.
We already hosted our two day event
of the annual Engineering Olympics this semester. This event challenges our
participating residents in completing problems within a group and doing it the
most efficiently. The winners names were put on a plaque on the 9th
floor lounge, and will remain there as a part of history in the LLC! We are
also going to Discovery World this upcoming Saturday as our next event! A lot
of the residents have been talking about this particular event and are excited
to experience going to Discovery World for the first time!
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