Hornet Orientation + Welcome Week

• Playfair - The Ultimate Icebreaker** | 8 - 9:30 p.m. | MU Webb Hall
  Playfair is totally unlike anything you have ever experienced. It’s entertaining! It’s fun! It’s the perfect way to meet new people! Playfair is a team-building experience that you will never forget. Meet new friends, hang out with campus student leaders, and make memories that will last a lifetime! Water
• Wishes On Wooster | 9:30 - 10:30 p.m. | Wooster Lake
  Send your wishes across the waters of Wooster Lake during this nighttime event. What is your greatest wish for your first year at ESU?

• Mini Majors + Learning Communities** | 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. | MU Webb HallEnjoy coffee, donuts, assorted pastries, and fruit before meeting the faculty in your chosen major’s department, learn more about classes and meet some of your classmates. For undeclared majors, you’ll have one-on-one time with professional staff from the Student Advising Center.
• Class Tours | 11:30 a.m. | ESU Campus
  Current student leaders from the Fraternity & Sorority Life community will take you around campus so you can find your classes before the first day of school.
• Fraternity & Sorority Life Ice Cream Social | 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. | MU West Lobby
  Stop by and visit with members of Fraternity & Sorority Life to learn more about how you can “Find Your Hive” and join the community to meet new friends, practice leadership skills and discover opportunities that will enhance your college experience.
• Can We Talk?** | 2 p.m. | MU Webb Hall
  Dr. Lori Bednarchik
  Communication is a skill, and like any other skill it needs to be learned and practiced. With a PhD in interpersonal and relational communication, and decades of personal experience with healthy (and unhealthy) relationships, Lori will provide you with communication strategies and tips that are grounded in research, but presented to you using fun, relevant, practical, and real-life examples. She will give you specific and practical skills to effectively communicate with your partner and/or friends and teach you how to set and respect your own, and other’s boundaries.
• Open Offices | 3:30 - 5 p.m. | ESU Campus
  Have questions about your financial aid?  Need help with your schedule? You have time to cross some things off your list now. Visit Financial Aid, the Student Advising Center, Career Services, and more of the open offices during this time.
• Hornet Games | 7 p.m. | Student Rec Parking Lot
  Get ready to compete! The ESU Resident Assistants will be leading teams through challenges for this night of fun!
• FREE Money Game Show | 9 p.m. | MU Webb Hall
  In the FREE Money Game Show everyone participates! Have a chance to win up to $500 CASH in this FUN trivia game covering music, movies, TV, and more. There will be multiple winners throughout the game while professional comedian Mickey Housley hosts each round! From Disney, Broadway, Rap, and Rock to Netflix, Hip Hop, Nickelodeon and more, there will be many chances to answer and WIN!!! Brought to you by the Union Activities Council!
  
  

• Dig Into Diversity** | 11 a.m. | MU Center for Student Involvement Lounge
  At the root of diversity, equity, and inclusion is an understanding of identity and understanding. Through understanding more about your identity and the identities of others, coming to appreciate your experiences, and learning to engage in dialogue you are better able to navigate the spaces you are in, be an advocate, and create positive change. This session will focus on the foundations of diversity, equity, and inclusion with a fun and delicious spin on concepts.
• Building Resilience** | 1 - 3 p.m. | MU Ballroom/Preston/Skyline
  Students will have the chance to participate in many different activities including building a terrarium for an air plant and putting together a wellness tote which includes health and wellness necessitates. Students will also make Zines where they will get the chance to create visual content celebrating their interests, passions, culture, and identity. Hosts include Student Wellness and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.
• PALs Meet & Greet | 3 - 4 p.m. | MU Skyline
  Want to meet someone who knows the ropes on what it means to be a college student at ESU? Meet current ESU students, PALs (Peer Academic Leaders) who will help you navigate the firsts of college life. Join us for root beer floats and make a plan to meet up with your PAL throughout the semester!
• Get Rec’d** | 9 - 11 p.m. | Student Recreation Center
  Want to know what the Student Recreation Center is all about? Find out more about group fitness, weights, and intramurals and other activities provided by the SRC. Meet the Rec Center staff who will provide demos about upcoming classes. There will be plenty of yard games to play and if you have never tried Silent Disco, now is your chance! FREE pizza too!
  

Emporia Area Religious Organizations

**Prizes will be given away at this event!

Prizes Include:

• Bluetooth Projector
• 43 inch Smart Fire TV
• JBP Pro Bluetooth Earbuds
• JBL Pulse 4 Bluetooth Speaker
• Dynamic Discs Starter Set
• Waterproof Indoor Volleyball
• Soundbucket Bluetooth Speaker
• Fire Max 11 Tablet
• Hydroflask
• Adult Scooter
• Pickleball Set
• Kuerig
• Kodak Mini Shot 3
• Kindle Paperwhite
• MPCP Boost Plus – Ultrasafe Jump Starter
• Govee Floor Lamp

• Wayfinding Stations | 7:45 a.m. - 11 a.m. | ESU Campus
  Need help finding your classes? Stop by to get your questions answered!
• Part-Time Job Fair | 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. | MU Main Street
  Need a job? ESU’s Career Services is hosting a part-time job fair for you! On and off campus employers will be in person so you can ask questions about jobs on site.
• Block Party | 5:30 - 7 p.m. | Commercial Street
  Welcome back ESU students! Join us for a fun night out in the 600 & 700 Blocks of Commercial Street. Students do not need tickets to attend - just show up! There will be music, prizes and information on student organizations and local businesses and groups!
  Each participating business will be donating a door prize of at least $25! Students are encouraged to stop by the Emporia Main Street Tent in the intersection on 7th Ave to sign up for prizes- We are NOT doing passports but doing an electronic sign in! We will draw for prizes the following day via Facebook Live. Winners will need to pick up their prize at the designated location. Sponsored by Emporia Main Street.
• Monday Night Football | 7:30 | Welch Stadium
  Come get a sneak peak of this year's ESU Football team!

• Wayfinding Stations | 7:45 - 11 a.m. | ESU Campus
  Need help finding your classes? Stop by to get your questions answered!
• HUGE Activities Fair | 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. | MU Main Street
  PickOne! The Center for Student Involvement is encouraging students to Pick One organization to get involved with this year. Meet leaders from current Recognized Student Organizations at the HUGE Activities Fair to find out more about meeting times, membership, and how to get involved!
• Fraternity & Sorority Life Info Night | 6:30 p.m. | MU East Lobby
  Come meet members of Fraternity and Sorority Life to learn more about our community and how you can join!
• UAC Birdhouse Crafts | 7 p.m. | MU Main Street
  Build, design, and decorate your own birdhouse to hang around town. While supplies last. Sponsored by Union Activities Council.

• HUGE Activities Fair | 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. | MU Main Street
  PickOne! The Center for Student Involvement is encouraging students to Pick One organization to get involved with this year. Meet leaders from current Recognized Student Organizations at the HUGE Activities Fair to find out more about meeting times, membership, and how to get involved!
• Panhellenic Recruitment Orientation | 6 p.m. | MU Sherrer Room
  During Orientation you will learn more about the PHA sororities at ESU, hear from current members about what the formal recruitment process looks like and understand the financial obligations of sorority members.
• Night on the Town: FREE BOWLING | 8 - 10 p.m. | Flint Hills Lanes
  FREE Bowling at Emporia’s own Flint Hills Lanes, 1519 W 6th Ave. It will be a packed house so get there on time to play! Sponsored by Center for Student/Union Activities Council.

• Poster Invasion: Poster Sale | 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. | MU Main Street
  Come check out an amazing selection of posters to decorate your room! Poster Invasion is bringing tons of prints for you to choose from at affordable prices.
• UAC Corky’s Waterfest | 5 - 8 p.m. | Kellogg Circle
  Come enjoy an evening of water games including a slip n slide, innertubes, water guns, and water balloons! Hotdogs, sno-cones, chips and drinks will be provided and the first 100 students to arrive will get a FREE Waterfest shirt! Traci’s Sno will be there with FREE Sno Cones! Sponsored by Union Activities Council.

• Poster Invasion: Poster Sale | 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. | MU Main Street
  Come check out an amazing selection of posters to decorate your room! Poster Invasion is bringing tons of prints for you to choose from at affordable prices.
• Friday Nights Kick Off – ESU Pool Party & More!! | 6 - 9 p.m. | Champions Landing
  Join us for the first Friday Nights event at Champions Landing, 1801 Rural Street! FREE hamburgers, hot dogs, prizes, line dancing, golf, disc golf, fishing and a pool side seat to a cannonball competition! Our own President Hush will show us his best cannonball at the Champion Landing pool!

• Live at the Hive - Downtown | 4 - 7:30 p.m. | Commercial St.
  Meet Hornet players and coaches
  • Showcase of local high school area athletes
  • Enjoy free live music
  • Sample local food vendors
  • Play games and win prizes
  • Participate in a family fun events

Emporia State University and your downtown  Emporia merchants invite you to bring the whole family down to enjoy food and drinks from local vendors, live music from the Undercover Band, meet and greet Hornet players, coaches, Corky, the ESU Cheer and Dance Team and a performance from the ESU Marching Hornets.
Plus, we've invited area high school coaches and teams to join in the kickoff party!
We'll have tons of activities, prizes, great giveaways including Hornet Football season tickets, a photo booth and exhibitions from Hornet student-athletes
It all happens Saturday, August 24, from 4:00 PM - 7:30 PM at the Downtown Emporia Food Truck Plaza at 923 Commercial Street. Learn more about this event.

• PHA Sorority Bid Day | 6 p.m. | Plumb Hall - Albert Taylor Hall
  PHA welcomes new members home!