{"id":140393,"date":"2023-08-21T10:19:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T14:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=140393"},"modified":"2023-08-21T10:35:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T14:35:19","slug":"discovering-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2023\/08\/21\/discovering-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovering campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Several Wright State University students participated in a unique wilderness experience called Freshman Outdoor Orientation Trip: Discover.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>During the three-day program, incoming students met their new classmates and established relationships with older student leaders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The students participated in climbing, kayaking and hiking and tackled physical puzzles as a team on the Wright State Low Ropes and Challenge Courses. They also took an introduction-to-kayaking course at Eastwood Metropark before traveling down the Great Miami River. They also took a three-mile hike in John Bryan State Park in Yellow Springs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI will tell everyone about this place, \u201csaid Jackson Robbins, a first-year student majoring in industrial systems engineering. \u201cIt\u2019s a dream come true.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/student-affairs\/campus-recreation\/outdoor-resource-center\">Wright State Outdoor Recreation Center<\/a> hosted the activity, providing trip leaders, equipment, lodging, meals and transportation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Andrea Reed, a senior majoring in earth and environmental sciences and Discover trip leader, said the objective was to create relationships that students will need during their college careers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s building these friendships and connections because when you\u2019re having a hard time at school you really need those people to fall back on,\u201d Reed said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wright State University students participated in a unique wilderness experience called Freshman Outdoor Orientation Trip: Discover. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2023\/08\/21\/discovering-campus\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":140397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,2105,725,727,715,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-campus-recreation","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-news","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140393"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140485,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140393\/revisions\/140485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}