On Saturday we had the first Open House of the year. I always enjoy this time of the year because many of the faces you see during the open house are going to be the future faces of the RIC campus. Unfortunately for me this is the last time I am going to see the students this way because I am graduating this year. Since I am an Resident Assistant I could not attend the YDEV part of the Open House. http://www.ric.edu/residential-life/rar.php
I had to give tours of the Residential side of campus to the hopeful new students. This didn't stop me from throwing in a few shameless plugs about Youth Development while I gave my tours. I had very few people ask me about Youth Development but because of our practice with the elevator speeches I was able to convey my mentality on the major. We had very few students this year and I think that helped contribute to why the number of questions was so low. The groups didn't seem very interested about the academic portion of RIC by the time they got to me but seemed more focused on how their living arrangements would be setup. I'm sure the topic on Youth Development got to a lot of these individuals before they got to me though.
I have to say though this Open House really got me thinking about the future. Mainly because the youth I am working with at my internship now are of a very similar age to the kids who will be coming to RIC in the upcoming years. That means the youth that I am learning to work with could potentially be the youth that will help the Youth Development major prosper. http://www.ric.edu/educationalstudies/youthDevelopment.php
This cycle was awesome to think about because if I am able to impact the lives of these kids then maybe in the future they will do the same. Its a crazy thought. This next hyperlink isn't what Youth Development is RIC but it's one of the very few other YDEV programs that I have seen and I thought it has a lot of great ideas.
http://www.extension.umn.edu/youth/training-events/understanding-youth-development-work/
Stayed tuned for my next event evaluation coming next Monday based on the SALT (Student Affairs Leaders of Tomorrow) Conference.
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