Our first highlight is Winthrop University’s Headphone Disco dance party in November. With 2 live DJs spinning on separate channels and close to 300 participants, the energy was high and the dance floor was “alive from start to finish”.
Taking it back to orientation, ERAU Daytona Beach celebrated back to school with their annual PaintU dance party. This rave is the ultimate party for letting loose at the start of the semester. Dancing to great music, getting covered in colorful paint, and making memories that will last is what PaintU is all about, and ERAU has done a fantastic job making this one a staple for students to get hype about each year.
Heading down to Texas, Trinity University in San Antonio hosted Yung Gravy for a Welcome Week concert that had the whole campus buzzing. While Trinity usually hosts their major concert in the Spring, this year they took a chance and moved it to the fall, which more than tripled their attendance compared to their last concert! This is a great example of how sometimes, just changing the timing of a particular event can have a great impact on the student’s excitement and engagement for the event.
In October, Texas State University brought in America’s Top Star to turn their annual campus talent show up a notch. This event allows schools to turn their existing talent show into an experience like Americas Got Talent, American Idol, and more! The team brings an energetic and entertaining host, as well as a film crew to get footage of the entire show! Not only did they pack the theater for the show, but they even had an overflow room with a livestream of the event so that more people could enjoy it!
Up in the Mid Atlantic – Kutztown University had 600+ students show up for The Campfireball, one of Degy’s newer programs. Cory’s reverse storytelling process had the students sharing pieces of their lives with each other one segment at a time and building a community that will last those students through their college career. So many laughs were had and they even added s’mores to the party to really make it feel like an outdoor vibe. Kudos to the McFarland Student Union and Student Involvement team for creating that space for students to come together!
Further to the North, our friends in Vermont at Vermont State – Lyndon brought cookie decorating to another level with Plenty O’Cookies, a Cookie Decorating Drag Queen, Plenty O’Cookies has classes they can lead with cookie kits (custom shapes too!), or what VT State Lyndon did was the ever popular Eat and Greet! So many people get to make their own cookie, the board can pick the Shape/design and it’s a great way to destress and create events that get people having the organic connection experience. The students and staff at Lyndon put on an amazing event!
On the larger event side there was University of Maryland and SEE, their student programming group, selling out Marcello Hernandez for their Homecoming Comedy show and Miami University – Ohio with a huge Family Weekend turnout for Seth Meyers as well as Suffolk University seeing their largest turnout for a concert in years for A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie. Each of these schools excelled in their marketing and artist selection, as well as planning in advance to get the performers their audiences would engage with. What a weekend that was – yes they were all the same weekend!
Whether you are looking for a major headliner, or a fun interactive event for students, Degy is here to help. Reach out to your Degy agent today to see what we have in store for this spring!