Club Rush Draws Record Attendance
51ÂÜŔň’s largest “Club Rush” event in years brought together 44 chartered and unchartered clubs and more than 1,000 students seeking to engage with classmates on everything from scrapbooking to computer hacking Aug. 28.
For two hours, students wandered through the aisles of club and resource tables in the Rancho Cucamonga campus quad, picking up fliers, candy and meeting with club officers.
Kinesiology major Lucas Glaze and his girlfriend Sophia Pritchard, a nursing major, visited the kinesiology and dance clubs, as well as The Breeze tables to get more information.
“Everyone is so welcoming and so kind here,” Glaze said.
Some newcomers to the event included Lucky Star Journaling, a group being launched by Fatima Garcia.
Inspiration came to her during her most recent birthday when she put together some words and images to remember the occasion, and felt the need to share them with others. Carmen Castro, serving as club vice president, said that journaling and scrapbooking will give students a chance to relax, be themselves and find catharsis.
“It helps the healing process when you don’t do it alone,” she said.
The Engineering Club showed off a robotic spider called an Arachnid Utility
Responsive Assistant (AURA).
The club offers access to materials and tools for robotics, electronics and more, as well as connections with employers like NASA, Tesla and NVIDIA, said Semiloore Oliade-Sadiq, club president.
“We want to get our members and tell people what we’re doing,” he said.
Computer science major Shawn Adams displayed motherboards, soldering tools and more for his new “Makerspace Club.” He invited visitors to join an upcoming “Hackathon” event where students with cybersecurity skills can come to compete.
English Professor Neil Watkins and advisor for the Undocu-Panthers Club, met with students and passed out fliers for his group.
“It’s amazing,” he said. “I think it’s the biggest crowd since before the pandemic. It shows that students want to be back on campus.”
