Chloe Gonzalez/ Staff Writer
The Council for Student Organization’s upcoming Olympic themed club fair will offer a transformative experience for FIU students, freshman and seniors alike, by providing them a place to network and join a club they’re interested in.
“I came here … by myself, going to club fair one year … I just joined all the organizations … I made a lot of friends off of that in just one year and I just improved my whole college experience,” said Stanley Evans II, junior hospitality management major and CSO President, on the effect club fair had on his college experience.
Arlet Hernandez, a junior biology major and events coordinator at CSO, added that the club fair “helps you fit in, into something that you like.”
“[By] joining a club you can learn different things, you can interact with different people that you wouldn’t interact with on a daily basis … It’s just a good way to express yourself because there’s people out there that have the values and the same likes as you … It’s just a good way to interact with people,” said Evans.
This semester’s club fair will be held in the Graham Center ballrooms on Wednesday, Aug. 24 and Thursday, Aug. 25 from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. Everyone is welcome to attend and there is no entrance fee. Students can go to browse through all the clubs FIU has to offer while enjoying giveaways, free food, games, and prizes.
Usually held every year in the spring and fall semesters, the club fair is an event hosted and organized by CSO to showcase FIU’s clubs and organizations. Each club that participates tries to recruit new members by setting up a table with posters and giveaways that display what their club/organization’s mission purpose, what they do, and events they host.
Evans explains that the club fair can be especially interesting for freshmen who are newly introduced to FIU, its community and culture.
“A freshman coming in, they don’t know anything about clubs,” he said, “so this is the perfect opportunity to have that one on one experience with them, have that one on one talk with different members of the clubs to show their different likes and their different motives behind the clubs.”
Club fair features all types of clubs including cultural, academic, and business organizations, as well as ones that are closely tied to their culture or major, according to Evans.
For this semester’s club fair theme, the Council for Student Organizations executive board chose the Rio 2016 Olympics.
“I feel like this is one of the best themes we’ve ever had,” said Evans. The Olympic rings and colors will adorn the giveaway tank tops and hats.
On both days, each club’s posters and tables will compete in an Olympic style competition where gold, silver, and bronze medals will be awarded to the best tables.
Every year the club fair is held, the CSO executive board does their best to improve it.
Evans explained that students expect the club fair to be a place with “good vibes … good attitude, good atmosphere, good giveaways, [and] friendly people” where clubs can “interact with each other and interact with the students.”
Hernandez hopes that students attending club fair will “have a new experience and they can find a club where they can fit in … find something that they’re interested in and … interact as an FIU community.”
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