Summer Rain Event Analysis

We decided that we wanted to have a summer kickoff event for the residents of NJIT. We had the event on the Sunday May 3, 2013, the Sunday before finals week last year. We had an 18 foot water slide, inflatable twister, slip & slide, dunk tank, slushies, popcorn, snow cones, cotton candy, henna tattoos, caricatures, hotdogs and hamburgers, a volleyball tournament, water balloon fight, and a watermelon eating contest. The event started at 2 pm with everything that was all day. Some activities were only at specific times. We ran the volleyball tournament from 3-4:30, the water balloon fight from 3:30-4, and then the Watermelon eating contest at 4:30.

2. Please provide an overview of the planning process, specifically what did the organization of this event look like for the members of this organization.
Within RHA, we have a sub-committee, our programming committee. The end of summer bash became out main event for the semester. We had some turbulence in leadership with RHA, so when I took over programming, we decided it was better to put our energy into one big event for the semester. I had about eight other people on my programming committee, including two of our e-board members who helped plan everything. We
There are very few events on the weekends, when residents are just sitting in their rooms because they are bored. This event was aimed to enhance the experience for residents. School spirit is fairly nonexistent at this school, but this event was trying to get residents out and about and happy to be at NJIT for the weekend. Also, the idea was if we could keep having fun events on the weekends, more people would be likely to stay. I love NJIT, but nothing happens on the weekend because the school does not care as much about residents as they care about commuters. So this event brought residents out, when they were stressing about finals, and gave them a good