Volunteering for Move-in and Week of Welcome is a great way to connect with students and is why we love being a part of the GT community. Meeting our first-year students and their families and helping them understand that this is a place where the entire community cares about one another is a really great reason to participate. You also get to meet campus colleagues who you might not have met otherwise. Move-in and Week of Welcome have a lot of moving parts, and people are the most important resource to help make this as smooth an experience as possible. Facilitating workshops allows you to share information about your office but also about areas you might be passionate about (Do you love to knit, write haiku, or teach people how to change their oil? Create a workshop!) and give back to our community. There are t-shirts or other swag to be had at some events if you help out. Also, for USG employees, you can log your volunteer hours on the Virgin Pulse App to get points towards extra money on your paycheck. See the links for that on our resource page for more information.

The WoW Resource Fair is only for departments and offices, however the Student Engagement Fair happens in the first weeks of school (August 29 and 30th in 2023), please check out https://studentengagement.gatech.edu/get-involved/fall-engagement-opportunities-0 for links on how to participate. During Week of Welcome, we encourage student groups to create workshops and events to showcase what their organization does, you can even apply for funding from Buzzfunds (see link in resources, application due by July 7th).