{"id":46682,"date":"2017-07-18T08:58:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T12:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=46682"},"modified":"2017-07-24T14:17:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T18:17:59","slug":"team-builder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/07\/18\/team-builder\/","title":{"rendered":"Team builder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Applause and laughter echoed through the Wright State University woods as 115 incoming <a href=\"http:\/\/medicine.wright.edu\/\">Boonshoft School of Medicine<\/a> students tackled team-building challenges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis gives them a real opportunity to bond with one another,\u201d said Gary LeRoy, associate professor\u00a0of family medicine and associate dean\u00a0of student affairs and\u00a0admissions for the Boonshoft School of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Students were split into several large groups to complete the challenges, which included Whale Watch, Mountain-Top, Spider Web and Space Web.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMedical school is going to be really hard and I think it\u2019s important to have friendships and people that you can rely on when you\u2019re having a hard time,\u201d said Brittany Bowers, a first-year medical student.<\/p>\n<p>The full-day exercise was conducted by the Wright State <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/campus-recreation\">Office of Campus Recreation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the different elements help them create and get some leadership skills as well as helping with their communication skills today,\u201d said Anthony Patitu, a graduate assistant in the Adapted Recreation program.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-44874\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2017\/04\/50th-anniversary-logo-700x550-260x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"204\" \/>The team-building challenge took place on July 12 as part of the students\u2019 weeklong orientation.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Ohio, the class of 2021 comes from as far away as Arizona, California, Florida, Guam, Massachusetts and Texas. Eighty-one percent of the students are from Ohio, while 19 percent are from out of state.<\/p>\n<p>Wright State became an independent institution in 1967 and spent the next 50 years growing into an innovative leader in affordable and accessible education. In 2017, it celebrates its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wright.edu\/50th\">50th anniversary<\/a> and sets the course for the next half century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applause and laughter echoed through the Wright State University woods as 115 incoming Boonshoft School of Medicine students tackled team-building challenges. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/07\/18\/team-builder\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":46683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,729,2105,725,727,2149,2016,715,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-around-campus","category-campus-recreation","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-medical-students","category-medicine","category-news","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46682","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=46682"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46773,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46682\/revisions\/46773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}