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Sofas, chairs and more: City to hold 10th Furniture Amnesty Day Friday

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Friday will mark the 10th year in a row the City of Manhattan has put on Furniture Amnesty Day, the day-long event allowing residents to dispose of unwanted furniture and for others to select donated furniture for free.

Volunteers will accept furniture drop-offs in City Park from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. while sign-ups for furniture selection will start at 8 a.m. Residents can choose furniture from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Brad Claussen, assistant chief of risk reduction and code service at the Manhattan Fire Department, said he has volunteered for the event every year

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since its start. He estimated that about 600 pieces of furniture were donated and picked from last year. Claussen said the event began a decade ago in “response to lots of unwanted furniture that comes from when everyone moves out this time of year.” Lacy Pitts, student body vice president and a city manager’s office intern, working to plan the project this year, which is always held on the last Friday of July. Pitts, senior in agricultural economics, called the furniture rehoming event Manhattan’s annual “unofficial start to the school year.” “Furniture Amnesty Day was created to dispose of furniture in the correct way,” Pitts said. “It was created to be at the end of July when lots of students are ending leases and moving out. It’s a way to get rid of furniture so it can go to new apartments.” Pitts said there are usually 50 volunteers who pick furniture from curbs around town, load and unload trucks, aid residents who are browsing in the park and help load residents’ vehicles. Some of these volunteers are supplied by event partners HandsOn Kansas State and the Konza United Way.

The deadline for residents to sign up for pick-up service is tonight at 5. Request forms are available through the Furniture Amnesty Day web page. Crews of volunteers will drive the trucks around starting at 7 a.m. Friday. Organizers ask that people refrain from donating electrical items, aside from lamps, because they can be damaged and it can be hard to tell if they work without testing them. Grills, TVs and dishwashers, for example, are not accepted. “We always have to tell people we do not want anything that plugs into the wall,” Claussen said. “That’s basically the way we judge that.” Claussen said there is always an abundance of couches, recliners, bed frames and headboards to choose from during Furniture Amnesty Day. This year, Pitts said she would like to see more desks. “One thing I know is we have not gotten a lot of desks, and that is something a lot of students are looking for this time of year,” Pitts said. “So if anyone has desks to donate, that would be appreciated.” Also on the list of acceptable donations are coffee tables, entertainment centers, end tables, dressers, mattresses and kitchen tables.

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A flock of ducks gather around a waitress at Off the Rails, a restaurant in the county of Hampshire, England, as she tosses crumbs to the eager “customers.” Photographer Olivia Bergmeier continues to document her travels abroad in her most recent travelogue with the Collegian: “The joy of camping, cycling in Hampshire, England.” Find her column in the Opinion section at kstatecollegian.com.

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K-State Libraries finding space to accomodate Hale’s cleaned books DENE DRYDEN

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More than two months after the roof fire at Hale Library, operations to recover and clean physical materials in the building continue. All books and materials are being moved out of the building, said Michael Haddock, associate dean for research, education and engagement at Hale. Originally, materials located on the fifth floor of the library, above the areas damaged by fire and water, would remain in that area. Haddock said the 14 heating and air conditioning units on the roof and the units responsible for regulating temperature in the university archives and special collections are not functioning consistently. “One of [the HVAC units] runs stack H, a lot of fifth floor special collections, and one runs stack G, which is university archives,” Haddock said. “Stack H they got running on outside alternator power to get cooled down, but it kept going off. It’d be on for a few days, then go off, so not stable. Stack G was never on for more than eight weeks.” Those materials will be removed from the library for their safety and for cleaning, if necessary, adding to the 60,000 boxes of wet and dry books that Haddock said Belfor staff have al-

ready removed from Hale.

A “LOGISTICAL NIGHTMARE”

As previously reported by the Collegian, wet books were initially frozen to stop further damage, and dry books were packaged and sent to the Executive Court building near Manhattan Regional Airport, where smoke residue and smell would be removed. Wet materials have been sent to a Belfor facility in Fort Worth, Texas, to undergo a freeze-dry recovery process, Haddock said. Haddock said some librarians traveled Tuesday to Fort Worth to see samples of books that have been cleaned to evaluate which ones will be kept and which should be replaced. With the additional materials being removed from Hale, and cleaned books needing to be stored separately from dirty books, Haddock said more storage space is needed for Hale’s collections. Right now, Executive Court is “packed to the gills.” “They were [stacked] six high on the boxes, seven in a few places, eight high — it looks like you’re in a maze, a rat in a maze because there’s just these canyons of boxes,” Haddock said. Warehouse space in the Ag Press Commercial Printing building on Yuma Street is being cleaned and prepared so boxes of library materials can be stored

there, Haddock said. He also said there is potential for using another storage space in Junction City. Haddock told the Collegian on June 23 that the estimated date for Hale’s reopening is December 2019. He said that target date remains the same, and cleaning all the physical materials could take just as long. “It may be 12 to 18 months to get everything cleaned,” Haddock said. “In addition to the building not being ready for at least 18 months, it’s also the collections cleaned to get them back in. As they clean, they have to put the clean boxes someplace because we can’t put them back in the building while they’re renovating. It’s this logistical nightmare, almost.” The estimated cost of Hale’s repair and restoration has not been finalized. More progress has been made, however: Haddock said some power has been restored in the building to operate the elevators, and PGAV Architects evaluated Hale. “We started meeting last week with architects, the architects that are involved with both the assessment of the damages but also to renovate,” Haddock said. “We had a number of meetings with library staff last week, so for me it’s sort of the exciting part. It’s where you can actually start talking about things we might do, just initial conversations.”

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The second-floor entrance to Hale Library now has ventilation tubes lining the ground due to the destruction and subsequent renovation caused by the fire.

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Earlier this summer, Hale set up a library help desk in the Business Administration Building. Now, Haddock said the help desk is located in the Kansas State Student Union at the first floor information desk across from the William T. Kemper Art Gallery. “The Union’s been really good,” Haddock said. “They’ve

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given us a good chunk of that desk, and that’s where library help will be in the fall ... [and] all next year.” Interlibrary loan and class reserves materials will be available for pickup at the Union location. Other relocated resources include current periodicals. Haddock said the library has access to about 90,000 full-text electronic journals that, because they are

digitized, can be accessed online. However, the library receives about 800 journals that are only available in print. These print resources can be found in the Math/Physics Library in Cardwell Hall.

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Rides in Riley: Previewing the county fair K-State hosts African leaders for Mandela Washington Fellowship RACHEL HOGAN THE COLLEGIAN

The 2018 Riley County Fair kicks it up again this week Thursday through Monday at the county fairgrounds off Kimball Avenue. The county fair will start

off with the “Blue Jeans & Country Dreams” 2018 Fair Parade at 6 p.m. Thursday. The parade will begin at the Manhattan Town Center and end at City Park. No pre-entry registration is required to participate in the parade. The Military Family Appreciation night will also take

place Thursday. Tickets are available at multiple locations around town including the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce. The Ottaway Amusements Carnival will be open nightly Thursday through Monday. Wristbands are $28 each and single tickets are

$3.50. Ticket packages are also available. At 8 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the Kaw Valley PRCA Rodeo will take place. Tickets at the gate range from $6 for children to $15 for people 13 and older. More rodeo details can be found at www.kawvalleyrodeo.com. On Friday, fairgoers can enjoy a barbecue meal from Blue Valley Pork Producers from 5 to 7 p.m. on the Pottorf Hall Patio for $8. At the same time, singer April Zieber will perform in the Flint Hills Auto Entertainment Tent. Other performers include Chappie Live on Saturday evening and the Buffalo Wingnuts on Sunday, both from 6 to 8 p.m. Also on Sunday, kids aged 4 to 12 years are invited to participate in a pedal tractor pull for prizes. The winners in each age group can compete at the state fair in September. There will also be a watermelon feed. The Riley County Fair will conclude Monday morning at 10 with the Fair Olympics. More information on these events and others can be found on the fair’s website.

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In Town Hall of the Staley School of Leadership Building, hands are flying up, signifying a desire to speak about a presentation regarding leadership styles. In the Kansas State room are 25 of Africa’s emerging civic leaders, all participants of the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, which began in 2014 and emphasizes empowering young people through academic coursework, leadership training and networking. This year, the fellowship brought 700 young leaders from sub-Saharan Africa to 27 U.S. higher education institutions to focus on leadership and skills development in one of three tracks: business and entrepreneurship, civic leadership or public management. This is the leadership school’s third consecutive year to host the six-week Civic Leadership Institute, which began in June. Brandon Kliewer, assistant professor of civic leadership, said the U.S. Department of State selects the hosting institutions through an application process. “I think the Staley School of Leadership studies has a strong commitment to civic leadership, and I think one of the most significant moments of learning that I have is the global level of collaborative learning,” Kliewer said. “When we think about civic leadership activity and what we talk about in our classes and the minor, this program reminds us that we have a larger global context that we’re a part of. It’s really energizing to think about how this experience here at the Staley School informs the work that we do during the school year.” During their time at K-State, the 25 fellows have connected with local businesses, nonprofits and community organizations and have worked on academic coursework, leadership training, mentorship and networking.

Abdoulhalim Soule Bakar, one of the fellows at K-State, said the institute has been a great experience. “I’m really excited to go home, because I feel like I have a lot of knowledge to share,” Bakar said. Another fellow, Moswane Mafule Morelearn, said what he has learned in the fellowship has changed the way he views being a leader. “It’s been exemplary,” Morelearn said. “I’m having the best time of my life learning from all the institute staff. The fellows and the community as a whole have contributed immensely to my own personal growth. “There’s a broader understanding of leadership, in terms of what it means to be a leader,” Morelearn continued. “For many years of practice of leadership, there was no particular understanding of the concept, it was just something that I’ve been practicing.” Morelearn said he hopes to encourage more people to be participative in his home country when he returns. “I’ve been asking questions to see how I can improve that through the ideas of leadership, and it’s been a great opportunity to be able to learn extensively from diverse groups and from different perspectives,” Morelearn said. The 2018 fellows will serve the Manhattan community through Furniture Amnesty Day with HandsOn Kansas State on Friday. Upon completion of the academic and leadership institutes, the fellows will travel to Washington, D.C., for a summit that includes networking and panel discussions with U.S. leaders from public, private and nonprofit sectors. After the summit, 100 fellows will remain in the United States to participate in a six-week professional development experience relating to their professional interests and goals.

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Young entrepreneur of Wing Productions finds purpose in his business DENE DRYDEN

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One would expect Wing Productions, a Manhattan-based event service that provides DJ services, videography, lighting, equipment rental and more, to be headed by a seasoned professional who has been in the entertainment industry for years. But the company’s innovation and quality of service comes from Landon Wingerson, the business’ founder and owner and a K-Stater. This spring, Wingerson was a junior studying entrepreneurship. He said he has been interested in entrepreneurship since he was a child. “I was always coming up with my money-making schemes, or I’d see a problem and then I’d be like, ‘Well why don’t we fix it this way and make some money while doing it?’” Wingerson said. “I actually started selling gum when I was in middle school because I saw a demand, and I was like, ‘Everyone’s always asking for a piece of gum,’ so I did this extreme couponing and I’d get free gum and sell it to students for a quarter and charge interest.” The turn toward music and DJ work, Wingerson said, came when he was in middle school. The DJ for one of the school’s dances pulled out of the event, and the school’s options were to find a replacement DJ or cancel the dance.

“I stepped up and said, ‘Well, I can make a playlist on my iPod and we could use the school speakers,’” Wingerson said. After that first dance, Wingerson said he had a lot of fun as a DJ, and he was asked to DJ his school’s dances more often, enough that other local high schools started asking about his services. The shift toward a bona fide business happened when Wingerson was a senior at Smith Center High School in Smith Center, Kansas, when he said he realized he could make some money with a DJ service. A business teacher prompted him to start spreading the word about his business. “Senior year is when one of my business teachers told me, ‘You should really think about this, make some business cards and kind of spread your name,’” Wingerson said. “I had no idea; my last name’s Wingerson, so I was like, ‘I don’t know, WingerMix I guess,’ So I made this real cheesy logo, it was really not that great, but I started cold-calling people, just high schools. ... I kind of did all the bookings my senior year of high school, and once I got into my freshman year of college, that’s when they actually would all happen.” Wingerson graduated from high school in 2015 and worked as the sole employee of WingerMix for two years,

attending class at Kansas State and traveling to events across the state to DJ. Then, he said he wanted to do more. “I realized you could make good money at DJing, and there’s nothing wrong with it, but I really liked what I was doing and I liked doing events and planning them and doing everything behind the scenes, running them,” Wingerson said. “So I decided, well, what else do I like that I can contribute?” Wingerson said he had past experience with videography, and he looked at the other services that clients need for their events: photography, photo booths, lighting and more. “I was like, ‘I’ll just be kind of a one-stop shop for all that, make some more money,’” Wingerson said. “I’m really into videography and DJing.” His business expanded, and on March 13, 2017, WingerMix became Wing Productions, according to the company website. Running a business and attending college came with its struggles, and Wingerson said he is taking a year off from K-State. “What I really struggled with and what led to me actually taking a break is that I got too busy and I started choosing my business over school,” Wingerson said. “I was skipping class to meet with clients. I was putting off homework. It

was so hard balancing between having a social life and getting good grades to stay in school and then at the same time making sure your quality of service was still up.” With about a year of coursework left to complete for his bachelor’s degree, Wingerson said he wants to finish his degree, but said putting the business he loves on hold would be difficult. “A year is not that long, but when you have to set aside your hobby for that long or what you like doing, it seems like a lot longer,” Wingerson said. “I would love to finish, I guess we’ll see what happens.” In the meantime, Wingerson has some ideas for Wing Productions going forward. One challenge he said he faced as a student entrepreneur was being the only employee. Now, Wingerson said he has started hiring on more people so the company can book anywhere

from two to five events on a single day. Another business prospect: planning Wing Production’s own events. “I think I’d actually like to move into more of the show, where you’re actually putting on shows, events,” Wingerson said. “I actually just talked to someone up at Haymaker [Hall], and I’ve seen it in the past done is where these companies come in and they put on this huge DJ show. … I think that would be cool to do at a lot of different college campuses. If it’s at the beginning of the year, for where students can come and they can meet each other.” A third goal, Wingerson said, would be to have a Wing Productions DJ opening for main artists at concerts. “I think that would be really cool to be a part of; you get some good social networking, meet some pretty high-up

people with that, too,” Wingerson said. When asked if he had advice for other entrepreneurs starting out, Wingerson said sometimes his friends ask him how he did it, and he says, “I just did it.” “It sounds hard and simple at the same time, but it’s risk,” Wingerson said. “That’s the whole thing with business is taking that jump, and if it doesn’t work out, it doesn’t work out. “I worked really hard that whole summer, spent every dollar in my bank account that summer on some speakers and went from there,” Wingerson continued. “Just invest in it. See where it goes. If nothing happens to it, don’t worry about it too much, just keep trying, try something else. There’s a lot of failure in entrepreneurship, and that’s something you have to deal with a lot.”

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OPINION: 3 affordable video Editor’s reading list: ‘To The games for the nostalgic gamer Stars Through Difficulties’ MICAH DRAKE

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Feeling nostalgic in the hot summer air? Here are some recent video games to recapture your childhood spent pressing buttons without a care in the world.

STARDEW VALLEY

Available on: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC (Windows, Mac, Linux), PS Vita Price: $14.99 Back in my day, we had a little system called the Game Boy Advance. I had no idea what made it advanced aside from the fact that the buttons were on the sides of the screen rather than under it, and that it had the best farming game at the time: “Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town.” As I made my transition from kid to teen, the appeal of this game was more and more clear — the real world is scary and confusing, but in “Harvest Moon,” all I have to do is water these turnips and give Karen a thousand bamboo shoots I found on the ground, and now I’m a wealthy farmer with a wife named Karen. Life was simpler in Mineral Town, and while I couldn’t stay there, it was always a lovely visit. So enters “Stardew Valley,” a cutesy, relaxing farming game that was drawn, programmed and written entirely by one industrious man named Eric Barone. The gameplay is comprised almost entirely of ploughing fields, planting things in said fields and harvesting things planted, along with mining, fishing, animal husbandry and chatting up the populace of the nearby town. It’s the opposite of edge-ofyour-seat gameplay, inviting you not to find the optimal strategy or solve everything under any discernible time limit, but to just spend time in a simpler world. “Stardew Valley” is releasing free expansion content, in-

cluding a new multiplayer mode, sometime in August. This will give you even more opportunity to share your wonderful little world with the people you enjoy.

A HAT IN TIME

Available on: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC (Windows, Mac) Price: $29.99 Super Mario has always been the standard for jumpand-run platforming games, similar to how Disney is the standard for American cartoons. It’s fun to see who is taking that standard and tinkering with it to make something new and exciting, so in that sense, “A Hat in Time” is the DreamWorks of platformers. While PlayStation 2 classics such as “Ratchet and Clank” or “Jak and Daxter” were exceptionally bold and brash in how they tinkered with the Mario formula, “A Hat in Time” feels very similar to Mario’s first 3D adventure, “Super Mario 64.” Your character is Hat Kid, a little girl with a top hat and an umbrella. She was flying a spaceship home, only to be interrupted by the mafia (yes, really) and lose all her so-called Time Pieces, the fuel for her spaceship. Hat Kid has to retrieve all these Time Pieces by going around from place to place doing what we all wanted to do when we were little kids: fighting the mafia, starring in a murder mystery, accidentally signing your soul away to the devil and doing more running and jumping than you can shake an umbrella at. You can also build up quite a hat collection during your travels to expand Hat Kid’s abilities and sense of style. This game oozes charm and cuteness — it officially advertises itself as a “cute-as-heck 3D platformer” — and as the first game by studio Gears for Breakfast, it does a tremendous job of putting a smile on your face. Free downloadable content is promised by the end of the year, including an extra level and a “New Game Plus” mode

where you can start a new game with your hat collection already available in full from Level 1.

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HOLLOW KNIGHT

When I browsed the State Library of Kansas’ 2018 Notable Books list looking for my next read, I was still in the mindset of reading another memoir. But, my eyes stuck to a title I appreciated, “To The Stars Through Difficulties” by Romalyn Tilghman, and I found that this realistic fiction novel touched on many topics I’m interested in: female leadership, libraries and small-town Kansas. Tilghman’s novel nods at the hardiness of people in northwestern Kansas, as the nearby (fictional) community of Prairie Hill, Kansas, is leveled by an EF-5 tornado. Gayle, an older woman who lived in Prairie Hill, struggles with coping with the aftermath of the tornado and the decision to rebuild their home or not. In the next town over, New Hope, doctoral student Angelina Sprint is visiting to conduct research on nearby libraries that were financed by Andrew Carnegie in the early 20th century. She knows New Hope because her late grandmother lived there and helped bring the town’s Carn-

Available on: Nintendo Switch, PC (Windows, Mac, Linux) Price: $14.99 As we all dream of passing the summer hump, you may want to look at one autumnal game on this list. Unlike the two bright and cheery games before, “Hollow Knight” traces its roots back to the tepid exploration of “Metroid” and the fantasy horror of “Castlevania.” You might even call it a “Metroidvania” if you’re crafty. Like the games that inspired it, “Hollow Knight” has a stark atmosphere, and it’s filled with side-scrolling action. You’ll spend most of your time exploring the desolate, hand-drawn landscape to vanquish evil and find new abilities that will help you fight stronger and stronger enemies. “Hollow Knight” follows a beetle knight exploring the underground insect kingdom of Hallownest, equipped with nothing but a small metal nail and his own courage as he unlocks the secrets of a decaying civilization. What follows is somber environmental storytelling that’s welcomed comparisons to “Dark Souls.” Don’t let the price deceive you. Much like the previous two entries in this article, the value you get for your money is extravagantly generous. The feeling of fighting larger insects who want you dead is tuned to near perfection, and the mood is serious, yet relaxed — like Atticus Finch, of all things. “Hollow Knight” boasts three free expansions, with a fourth set to release Aug. 24. Micah Drake is a senior in English. The views and opinions expressed in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Collegian.

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Cover art for “To the Stars Through Difficulties” by Romalyn Tilghman. egie library to life, which now operates as an arts center. Another town outsider, Traci Ashe, relocates from New York City to New Hope as the arts center’s artist-in-residence. Written between the perspectives of Gayle, Angelina and Traci, “To The Stars Through

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By the start of the fall semester, Haddock said Belfor’s trucks on Mid-Campus Drive will be out of the way. “By the time school starts, they plan to open the sidewalks on the west side of Hale, because right now you can’t walk up the sidewalk,” Haddock said. “They’re going to move all their trucks and equipment, it won’t be on Mid-Campus Drive — they’re going to be in a park-

ing lot up north, and they’ll be transporting people in and out. They’re going to put in more permanent fencing, they call it, because it’s pretty temporary what they have right now, and they’re going to cover it, sort of like they did with Seaton.” Information Technology Services was displaced by the Hale fire damage, and those operations and staff have since relocated to Cat’s Pause Lounge in the Union, as previously reported by the Collegian. Einstein Bros. Bagels in Hale Library was not af-

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In the first year of its existence, more than 3,000 students opted in to join the K-State 360 app and attended 945 events hosted by 157 departments and organizations on campus. The app, introduced to students last fall, was designed to provide students a way to track and communicate campus involvement and engagement. Kelli Farris, executive director of the Center for Student Involvement, said the app also acts as a navigation system to find current involvement opportunities on campus. Currently, the program is available to all enrolled undergraduate students on the Manhattan or Global Campus. After downloading the K-State mobile app, students can access the K-State 360 app to find involvement opportunities and track what events or activities they attend. In the next year, Farris said, K-State 360 will incorporate an incentive program similar to Pocket Points. “As students complete things, they’ll earn points,” Farris said. “They’ll have the opportunity to decide what those things are that they care about to apply their points to. There’s a possibility that we could look at offering a discount on books as an incentive, which will come over the course of the next year.” K-State 360 was completely built at K-State, coded and created by university staff. “It’s an opt-in only program, so we don’t load a whole bunch of students into the system to inflate our numbers,” Farris said. “Last fall, they did a big push during orientation and enrollment to start telling incoming students about what the program is.” Farris said there is a plan to inform incoming students again this upcoming year by

Both Manhattan Locations Logo for the K-State 360 phone application.

going to K-State First and freshman orientation classes. “We try to get students when they’re first coming in,” Farris said. “That’s where the most value is, because they can start earning those credits early.” While the program is available to junior and senior students, it will be more difficult to complete the K-State 360 certification due to time restraints and lack of awareness of the program. However, there is a plan in the works to make the app more useful to upperclassmen. “We, over the course over the next year, will be working on what we call Phase 2, which is high-impact learning,” Farris said. “This includes education abroad pieces, internships, community service and employment. For juniors, if we developed the program over the next year, they may be able to do those things by the time they’re a senior in order to get that certification, but it will be tough. For seniors, they’re probably not going to be able to complete the certification piece, just because there’s building blocks to get to that

point.” Farris said this fact contributes to the push of educating incoming students about the program. “We started with those early year students, so we can build them through the program, and can easily complete the program and certification,” Farris said. “Anyone is eligible to use the program; seniors can still go in and track their attendance and get points for those incentives. They just might not necessarily make it to the certification piece.” Farris also said the app is popular among first-generation students. “Oftentimes, we know first-generation college students have less knowledge about how to navigate the system, and what K-State 360 does, is it tells them how to navigate the system,” Farris said. “I’ll be really intrigued to have some conversations with first-generation students, and more one-on-one with students to find out what is it about 360 that they’re finding beneficial and how it’s helping their experience.”

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