On Nov. 25, one group of selected freshmen from each of the 34 UNIV classes will be presenting their posters at a symposium in the Memorial Student Union Building. The event is from 4 to 6 p.m. with the winners announced at 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These groups, which were selected as the strongest poster from each class, have been working on this project since September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This event showcases the work of the university\u2019s newest students. Each poster is a reflection on how the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time <\/em>has taught students about being a college student. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The objective of the poster project and the symposium was to give students an inside look of the mind of a college student and undergraduate research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThrough the poster project, students learned practical skills like time management and note-taking, but they also enhanced their critical thinking skills and tackled issues pertaining to neuro-diversity,\u201d said Dr. Shannon Baker, assistant dean of the College of Art and Sciences as well as interim AVP for the Center for Student Success. \u201cI had previously organized a poster symposium for freshmen in the College of Arts and Sciences, and I wanted to bring that model to the university level. I worked with a great team of staff members to organize this event. Ms. Nicole Morris, the coordinator for the first-year experience, was the main point person in the planning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Besides Dr. Baker and the freshmen students, 12 faculty members volunteering as judges along with peer mentors and UNIV instructors are also involved in the preparation of the upcoming symposium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe symposium gives freshmen students the opportunity to compete for scholarships, the practice of presenting in such a setting and the ability to showcase their work,\u201d Morris said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 12 judges will be divided into small groups, each assigned a certain number of posters to assess. The judges will be utilizing a rubric to select the winners. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The top three posters will receive mini-scholarships with varying amounts. The top prize-winning group will receive $100 each. An audience winner will be chosen and given a door prize as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The freshmen students involved in this poster project have had their own journeys of creating their longtime project while balancing out the kinks of being a new college student.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMy journey personally was panicky, but nothing I couldn\u2019t handle. It taught me that even though I\u2019m in a rush, I still have to work within a group in order to get the project done,\u201d said Trenton Payne, communications major and one of the possible students advancing to the symposium. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Nov. 25, one group of selected freshmen from each of the 34 UNIV classes will be presenting their posters at a symposium in the… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[192],"class_list":["post-3298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"authors":[{"term_id":192,"user_id":42,"is_guest":0,"slug":"gabriella-mastroianni","display_name":"Gabriella Mastroianni","avatar_url":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/wp-content\/litespeed\/avatar\/a5c44295fd719df888b78916422be7cc.jpg?ver=1778638481","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3299,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}