Impact Summer :: Meeting New Students
A lot of what we spend time doing in the summer relates to meeting the 5,000+ Freshman that come to UNCC each fall. We want to meet as many of these new students as possible so that when they are invited to an Impact event they know who we are! Two of the big ways we meet students is through SOAR in June & July and Freshman Move-in, the Friday before classes start in mid-August.
SOAR (Student Orientation & Advising Registration) is held in 12 different sessions in June and July. Every new student to UNCC must attend a SOAR, so it’s a great way to get ourselves in front of everyone! During each SOAR session they hold a “Niner Night” event where all of the Student Organizations can set up booths and give information to the new students. So far we’ve talked to over 400 Freshman who asked to receive information about our fall events!
Freshman Move-in is a chaotic day where Student Organizations help thousands of students move into their dorm rooms. Impact has helped with this for 7 years now and we’ve found it to be a great opportunity to talk to students about what we do and invite them out to the events we hold the first week on campus – including our 49,000 Water Balloon fight! Impact has over 50 current students helping move Freshman into 2 dorms this August.
This is just a small part of what we do each summer to get the word out about Impact, and tell the campus about how they can connect to God through our community. Through the comings weeks and months we’ll be highlighting dozens of ways we reach out to the campus each fall!
