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How to Plan a Fun and Informative Freshman Orientation

For high school seniors, the summer after graduation can be filled with excitement and anxiousness. While awaiting the last week in August, when most incoming freshmen are welcomed into their colleges and universities, these students will be planning for success. From dorm room decor to anti-virus installed laptops, incoming freshman anticipate a fun and challenging year. To help calm the nerves and present campus as a home away from home, it’s essential to plan freshman orientation events. With the needs of your new students in mind, you can host a bountiful welcoming event that will familiarize students with your college campus and create a community that they’ll all want to be a part of. Essential to the perfect orientation event are custom freshman orientation promotions.

Your first priority to planning your freshman orientation will be to recruit dedicated staff. Many colleges ask for upperclassmen volunteers while others rely on residential advisors to help organize the event and various activities. These college representatives should be stationed around campus to help and greet new students. To make them stand out, promotional tee shirts are encouraged. Using bright colors and showcasing your school name and mascot will make these helpers easy to find while familiarizing new students with your logo. The upperclassman you choose to participate in freshmen orientation should be presentable and personable. From handing out dorm keys to helping unpack out of state vans, these representatives will show the excellence that your college instills in both academics and social areas. Parents will be saying good bye to their children for the first time, and seeing that they’re in good hands will make the drive home a bit easier.

When you first give new students their dorm keys, name tags should also be distributed. These indicators will help new students, upperclassmen, and staff to get acquainted. Once the name tags are on and the cars are unpacked, it’s best to host a casual brunch before parents say their goodbyes. A neutral ground, like the school cafeteria, is the perfect place to allow for a personal goodbye and avoid separation anxiety. Once the parents have left, it’s time to get your team in action with fun activities and ice breakers.

An innovative idea that will familiarize students with each other and the campus is a scavenger hunt. Teams will be divided and all across campus various activities will be organized. Each station can be both informative, like a quest to the registrars to fill out a transcript request form or fun, like a relay race in the school gymnasium. As the day continues, students will begin to feel comfortable and friendships are likely to bloom. This makes it the perfect opportunity for a dinner break. A two hour intermission will allow students to organize their rooms and eat dinner while spending time with the new friends they’ve made. This break also allows your staff to take a well earned break and set-up for the next event.

Great evening events include karaoke, dances and sweet treats. Without fun events like these, students are more likely to go back to the dorms and drink. Help show them that college is not just about binge drinking by creating sober fun. This is a great opportunity for new students and your staff to let loose and share their more daring sides. It will also tire the students out so that a good night of sleep is in order. This will be beneficial due to extensive presentations planned for the next day.

Informative meetings with academic advisors, the school’s counseling center and student activity boards should be mandatory for students. Important school policies, academic programs and sports information will be shared in hopes to start the year off on the right foot. Many students will also find these informative sessions as beneficial and helpful in easing any anxieties. Still, like most meetings, these can drag on and lose the audience’s attention. This is exactly why college orientation giveaways should be near by.

During each presentation, try to incorporate custom freshman orientation promotions to correspond with the message or theme. For instance, giving out a custom doodle calendar is perfect for reinforcing a time management meeting. Likewise, a custom safety key-lite and whistle is perfect when discussing campus safety with school security. These will help to make the campus environment a safer place that students feel comfortable roaming any time of day. This is extremely important as students will still be very attached to their cozy homes during the first few months of college.

The best school promotional items are custom imprinted Gem USB flash drives because they will definitely be needed. Load them with the school’s handbook and important information and allows room for students to store their own documents, photos and music. These giveaways will help to make assemblies more interactive and memorable. Not to mention, your mascot and school name will naturally make their way into these new students lives.

By enlisting intelligent and fun upperclassmen, planning interactive activities and choosing custom freshman orientation promotions, you are guaranteed a successful freshman orientation. By creating a comfortable campus community, students are likely to stick around for all four years. Additionally, these fun activities and informative sessions will give freshman confidence in their decision to choose your awesome establishment, which will lead to an increase in enrollment for years to come.

About the Author

Jenn Jimenez is a content specialist for Just School Promotions. With a knowledge of what students and administrators need and a bounty of fun and effective school spirit ideas, she creates the content for our school fundraising articles and other fun guides and how tos.

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