{"id":168649,"date":"2026-08-28T16:10:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T20:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=168649"},"modified":"2026-08-28T16:10:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T20:10:47","slug":"tropical-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2026\/08\/28\/tropical-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Fall Fest, the annual celebration that kicks off the Fall Semester at Wright State University, brought thousands of students, staff and faculty together for a tropical-themed day filled with fun, music, food and free giveaways.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>As a part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/event\/weeks-of-welcome\">Weeks of Welcome<\/a>, the Aug. 28 event gave students the opportunity to meet student leaders and learn more about student organizations, educational opportunities and services offered by different campus departments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cFor new students on campus this is the first time seeing all of our departments and organizations,\u201d said Charli Sproles, a junior human resource management major who helped organize the event.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Organized by the<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wright.campuslabs.com\/engage\/organization\/university-activities-board\">University Activities Board<\/a>, Fall Fest attracted about 5,000 attendees and featured 142 student and campus organizations and six food vendors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI think Fall Fest is a great way for students to take their campus experience further and get to see what all campus has to offer,\u201d said Sproles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall Fest, the annual celebration that kicks off the Fall Semester at Wright State University, brought thousands of students, staff and faculty together for a tropical-themed day filled with fun, music, food and free giveaways. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2026\/08\/28\/tropical-takeover\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":168651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,725,727,715,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168649","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-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168649","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=168649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168652,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168649\/revisions\/168652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}