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Special Events
Photo Scavenger Hunt
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The best way to get to know your new teammates as well as the campus is to explore it together while chasing clues and taking ridiculous photos in the process. This event kicks off Honors Olympics from the very start of the year, and it gets your creative juices flowing from the first day you arrive on campus. |
Challenge the SADs Night
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This event gives every Honors student a chance to see if they measure up to the Student Associate Directors by challenging them to games like Ping Pong, Pool, Chess, Rock-Paper-Scissors, Xbox, Wii, PS3, Checkers, Air Hockey, and many more classic competitions. |
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Clash of the Classes Week
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The most intense week of the semester, Clash of the Classes consists of 5 straight days of off-the-wall competitions pitting Freshmen vs. Sophomores vs. Juniors vs. Seniors. In the past we’ve played Capture the Flag, Kickball, Hot Potato, Musical Chairs, Crab Soccer, Jeopardy, competed in Obstacle Courses and Relay Races, and capped things off with an outdoor movie at the Honors House. |
Halloween Party
| The Honors Halloween Party, taking place at the PUB Multi-Purpose Room, is one of the biggest events of the year. We kick off the month of October by decorating each room of the Honors House with a different Halloween theme, and then all of the groups carve pumpkins days before the party. Once we’re in the Halloween spirit, we celebrate with activities such as bobbing for apples, pounding the piñata, water pong, a costume contest, limbo, and a dance that goes all night. |
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Siege on the Seig
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Siege on the Seig is a 24-hour student retreat. We travel approximately 15 miles to the Sieg Center, a campground property donated to LHU. The property is fully-functional, including separated sleeping quarters, bathroom facilities including showers, a full kitchen, a banquet hall, a fire pit, and a lounge. It is located next to a river and is secluded in a scenic part of the woods. While there, we enjoy a variety of group games, icebreakers, Minute to Win It Challenges, Arts and Crafts activities, Community Service projects, as well as 3 delicious meals—all within the span of 24 hours! |
The Structure Construction Challenge
| The Structure Construction Surprise is a build-off that will test your patience, knowledge of physics, logic, spatial reasoning, and ability to work together as a team. Your team has to collect any materials you think would be helpful to build a structure that is the tallest, the most aesthetically pleasing, or able to bear the most weight. Anything goes. The competition will start with a few small preliminary build-offs. Depending on how you do in those preliminary events, you might be given different advantages or disadvantages when it comes to the main event. We’ve got all kinds of surprises in store. |
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Holiday Ho-Down
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In celebration of the cold weather and all of the holidays that come with it, we decorate the Honors House from head to toe with lights, trees, stockings, and wrapping paper. Then we get together to share food, build gingerbread houses, make cards for those in the local nursing home, watch Home Alone, and rock out to festive music. |
Anti-Valentine's Day Party
| One of our newest traditions is to celebrate the grondhog and (hopefully) the early end of winter. We watch the Bill Murray classic "Groundhog Day," and everyone brings their favorite international dish. Cuisine from all seveon continents make it a great reason to stay inside, feast, and enjoy a few laughs. |
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Game Show Extravaganza
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This St. Patrick’s Day extravaganza is a perfect blend of game shows like Jeopardy, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Legends of the Hidden Temple, the Weakest Link, The Price is Right, and best of all, Minute to Win It games. Students watch each other compete in the some of the most enjoyable yet absurd mini-games, all leading up to the Showcase Showdown on the quest for the St. Patty’s Day Pot of Gold. |
The Egg Hunt
| Take your average Easter Egg Hunt, mix in the cross-country aspects from “The Amazing Race,” add the intense puzzle-solving of a “Saw” movie, throw in a splash of drama from the “Real World/Road Rules Challenge,” crack a few raw eggs for an extra kick of flavor, and you’ve got yourself an Honors Program Egg Hunt. You will get dirty. You will sprint all over campus. You will have your mind boggled. But you’ll have a blast doing it. |
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Annual Awards Banquet
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After an entire year of hard work, it's time for our students to come together and celebrate their accomplishments. We hold our banquet off-campus at the ELKs Club in Lock Haven, and we bring in the local restaurant Dutch Haven to cater a delicious meal. After dinner, an awards ceremony consisting of Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior, Leader, and Professor of the Year takes place, and students receive plaques and certificates for all of their accomplishments. This is also the event where graduating seniors receive their Global Honors Medals. After the awards, we cap off the evening with a comedy act and then a student dance. Most students agree that this is one of the most anticipated and most fun events of the year. |
FDG Wars
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This is the event of the year. The event that students look forward to from the very day they arrive on campus up until the last weekend before finals. We jam-pack a Saturday full of ridiculous physical and intellectual competitions, delicious homemade food on the grill, and a dancing contest that’s as hilarious as it is unpredictable. We cap off the afternoon and the year with the trophy presentation of the ultimate Freshmen Development Group. The FDG Wars winners not only get their names on the trophy, they get to enjoy Honors immortality - their framed picture makes it on the Wall of Fame forever. |
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Field Trips
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Twice per year we take a bus full of students across the East Coast to learn about a different city or region. While in places like Philadelphia, New York, Washington D.C., and Pittsburgh, students are challenged to see it all in one day. After a trip to a famous museum, they go on a scavenger hunt through the city and then begin a hunt for the most delicious cultural cuisine. The average honors student can visit up to 6 cities over the course of their college career, and every trip is free. |
Conferences
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One of the best ways for our students to get to see the world while networking and practicing their presentation skills is to attend an Honors Conference. Every year we take students on the National Collegiate Honors Council Conference and the Northeast Regional Honors Council Conference where they’ll spend four days exploring a new city, meeting other Honors students, and presenting to students and professors from across the country. |
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