While you may not be able to physically see what UAO is planning for next year know that there are dozens of activities already in the works for next semester. “Each programming team has to have planned 4 events for the following semester before school lets out. This gives us an idea of the type of events were are having and a rough outline of when things are happening”, says programming team member Shana Tamara.

                   As an added bonus programming teams now have to also implement late night events into their schedule. A late night event is composed of a program/event that ends after 12am on a Thursday, Friday and Saturday. This new rule in programming adds so many possibilties to each programming team. This also allows for UAO to program for a diffrent crowd. Late night prgramming is an alternative for students who do not like to go to parties or the bar or have nothing else to do on the weekends to have fun.
                

                          The Homegrown programming team has already planned their late night event for next semester. “It is a big surprise. Just know that it’s going to be fun!”, Assisstant Director of Homegrown programming team said. “Being able to plan activites at night aloows us to put on a variet of actvivites, things that we couldn’t do before. Im am excited to see what each programming team has in store for the upcoming year.”, she also said.

At last years Campus Fest, UAO's mascot posing with a student.

                     Other than plannning late night events, majority of UAO’s time is dedicated to programming for the beginning of the year. The first few weeks of school are important times to program for the campus. “Freshmen are new to campus and are in need of things to do. Events like Welcome Week and Campus Fest are places where we can put on programs and recruit freshman to our organization”, says Assistant Director of Community Outreach Tonnise Green.

Campus Fest also serves as a foundation for the rest of the semester. It shows the campus what UAO has in store for the rest of the year and how people can get involved. Being able to provide effectively is where Summer UAO comes in. While other organizations are on a vacation UAO is working hard over the summer.

One of the biggest events that UAO puts on each year is the Homecoming Concert. “Each year the students look forward to see who is performing for the concert”, DonYae James, a student a BG said. “I hope they get someone big like Jay Z or Nicki Minaj”.

While the Homecoming Concert is a secret to all (literally) maybe we can see a huge artist like…….

OR

You never know. Just stay tuned for next years event.

Here is the UAO President talking about some of her favorite things abut UAO and what UAO really means to her. You also get to see some of the cool events that we get to put on for the campus. Enjoy

If you thought that UAO was an organization that was done at the end of the semester and just went home on vacation for summer then — YOUR WRONG! While other organizations are home for summer not thinking of the next semester, UAO is already planning events for both fall and spring semester.

To be a member of the leadership team in UAO, one must be a part of Summer UAO. Because Welcome Week and Campus Fest is a hectic time for UAO, planning over the summer is a must.

The team has bi-weekly updates that must be submitted. Each update has to tell what each team has been working on for the upcoming school year. Materials and publicity must also be created and bought during this time period. Weekly online meetings are also a part of our responsibilities. This is where we can vote on last minute changes to proposals.

A big part of Summer UAO is our annual UAO retreat. This usually happens one day over the summer where we all come back to BG and go over our organizations mission and establish goals for the upcoming year. It is a full day of team building activities and program updates.

Here we also get acquainted with leaders of other organizations and prominent figures among our campus. We even help with freshman move in. Volunteering is an easy way to promote our organization and recruit freshmen to join.

UAO never really stops. There is always something to do.

Here is a short interview that I did with Allison Hauk, assistant director of Homegrown programming team. Here she talks about what she likes and dislikes about UAO.

NIck and Tiffany dressed up as Thing 1 and Thing 2 four our Sibs-N-Suess brunch.

Finally the weekend we had been waiting for…Sibs-N-Kids. Sibs-N-Kids is an annual program that lets the students siblings come and have fun for the weekedn. It starts on Friday and ends Sunday morning with brunch.
There are many diffrent activities that are put on like:

• The Petting Zoo
• Kite Brite
• Egg Hunt
• The Carnival
• Sibs-N-Seuss Brunc
• And many more events

While many of the events are geared towards younger kids. Siblings of all ages are encouraged to come out and be a part of this event.

Although UAO did not host all of the events during this weekend, the program overall was put on by UAO. Each year a member of UAO is elected to be the program coordinator and this year it was Bri Cowart. She was in charge of the marketing, registration of thr children, volunteers..basically the whole sha-bang.

After the weekend was all said and done over 700 children had registered for the weekend and nothing but great comments were given to Bri and UAO.