Event One

The first event I attended was the advising event youth development had. At the event a significant amount of youth development majors came together in Gaige hall and worked to answer questions about the youth development program along with advising questions. The event started off by everyone in the room introducing themselves by saying their name, age, and how their day was going. This is a youth development activity that was taught to the program by a group called youth in action. One person will start and say “bug in” introduce themselves and when they are done they will say “bug out” and then the next person will do the same. This was a good activity to do at the advising event because there were a lot of new faces interested in the youth development program. During the advising event a lot of questions about courses and the program were cleared up for everyone. It was fun being able to interact with others in the youth development program along with helping each other create class schedules and answering questions.

The connection I saw from our advising day was with youth in action. Youth in action is run by the youth who participate in the group. I saw a connection with our advising day because we ran the event. We worked with other youth development students to answer questions. Our advisors were there to help whenever we needed them, like youth in action does. Below you can find an article written by Adeola Oredola, the executive director of youth in action. You can also find more information regarding youth development below.

1.      Youth in action article

2.      YDEV information

3.      YDEV advising central