{"id":156591,"date":"2025-01-22T15:17:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T20:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=156591"},"modified":"2025-01-24T13:09:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T18:09:43","slug":"wright-state-hosts-fair-to-help-students-find-opportunities-to-get-involved-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2025\/01\/22\/wright-state-hosts-fair-to-help-students-find-opportunities-to-get-involved-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State hosts fair to help students find opportunities to get involved on campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hundreds of Wright State University students learned about opportunities to participate in various clubs and student groups at the 2025 Spring Involvement Fair on Jan. 15 in the Student Union Atrium.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Almost 60 Wright State organizations and departments participated in the fair to encourage students to get involved on campus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of those organizations was Troupe, a student-led improv comedy group that is open to students of all majors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe try to teach acting implicitly by playing goofy games and putting on skits that don\u2019t work off a script,\u201d said Joey Sodergren, a graduate computer science student who is president of the organization.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Agum Akol, a first-year transfer student majoring in nursing, found it worthwhile to attend the fair.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI\u2019m very excited,\u201d said Akol. \u201cI joined a couple clubs and I cannot wait for them to start.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Event organizers say the more students are involved and engaged on campus, the more likely they will have a positive experience and stay at Wright State.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe promote engagement and help students realize that Wright State is the perfect fit for them,\u201d said fair organizer Selvin Bacon, a graduate sports management student.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students can learn more about getting involved at Wright State at <a href=\"http:\/\/wright.edu\/getinvolved\">wright.edu\/getinvolved<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of Wright State University students learned about opportunities to participate in various clubs and student groups at the 2025 Spring Involvement Fair. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2025\/01\/22\/wright-state-hosts-fair-to-help-students-find-opportunities-to-get-involved-on-campus\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":156594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,725,727,715,4293,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-news","category-student-union","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156591","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=156591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156613,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156591\/revisions\/156613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}