The Huckleberry Trail Cleanup was a recurring event that took place on the Sunday after four different Home Football games. The dates were September 15th, October 13th, October 20th, and November 10th. Each event had 15 student volunteers and lasted for two hours. The volunteers started at Lee Hall and walked to the beginning of the trail by the Blacksburg Police Department. Once on the trail, all volunteers were equipped with bags and gloves. From there, the trail lasted abo

This is a picture from a Professional Development titled How to Dress for Events where we discussed the different types of common events that you could be invited to as a professional in the workforce. One of the first things that one thinks about after accepting an invitation is “what should I wear?”. To help teach the freshmen about the importance of dressing correctly for these events, we talked through some common events, what the correct level of dress was with examples,

The YMCA Craft Fair event was held on Friday November 8th at the Blacksburg Community Center. Galipatia brought a group of 10 volunteers to the event to assist the vendors at the YMCA staff in the set-up of the event. The Annual Craft Fair was celebrating their 50th anniversary, and it was the largest occurrence yet. They had live music, food vendors, craft vendors, and so much more. The volunteers worked for two hours to help take vendor orders, carry vendor supplies to the

The Outreach Committee hosted an Hour of Code day at Blacksburg Middle School on November 14th to introduce middle school students to coding using fun online games. Hour of Code Day is usually held during Computer Science Education Week in December, but since it falls just before finals this year, we moved the event to November. Hour of Code is designed to introduce students to coding in a way that is both fun and educational way. The day was broken up into two shifts with ov