Family Orientation
Is your family coming to help you move? Invite them to enjoy our Family Orientation Program in order to find out more about Cal Poly. Events include the President's Welcome, a resource faire, sessions for parents, and Kid's Passport for younger siblings. Kid's Passport will entertain younger siblings with a variety of activities like arts and crafts, bowling and a bounce house. For more information see Family Orientation Highlights.

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WOW Opening Rally to Meet Your Group
Come and get pumped up about WOW and life as a Cal Poly student, with hundreds of Orientation Leaders, the WOW Board and Cal Poly's Athletic and Spirit organizations. Meet your WOW Leaders and a group of fellow new students who you will be getting to know throughout the Week's various activities.

WOW-A-RAMA
Join thousands of new students for games and mingling at the largest get-acquainted social on the Central Coast!

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Campus, Community, College Life & Respect Presentation
This presentation is all about getting acclimated to Cal Poly and San Luis Obispo life, giving a jump start towards being an active and respectful community member. Learn about what the university and the city have to offer while hearing about diversity, academics and community awareness.

SLO Bound
Dozens of SLO businesses open their doors and set up booths to welcome new students at SLO Bound. The event starts with a bus ride from campus to lunch at Mitchell Park, includes a walking tour of downtown and the Mission Plaza, and ends with a bus ride back to campus. WOW groups can compete in a downtown scavenger hunt, and receive lots of free goodies and coupons from participating businesses.

Your Vote, Your Voice Registration Drive
WOW's Voter Registration Drive combines with SLO Bound to raise community consciousness and emphasize the importance of voter participation to incoming students. A historically successful event, Your Vote, Your Voice has registered many students over the years, as well as encouraged them to vote when the polling day arrives.

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PREFACE Shared Reading Program
All WOW leaders and new students participate in a book discussion with trained volunteer discussion facilitators. This discussion provides a learning experience for the new students similar to a discussion in a college class. The novel selected for PREFACE 2007 is Montana 1948 by Larry Watson. For more information, visit: www.preface.calpoly.edu.

College Connections: Academic Success
An opportunity for you to spend a day with your college, meeting deans, faculty, and current students in your departments for a personal academic introduction to Cal Poly. PREFACE (shared reading program) discussion groups will take place in conjunction with academic activities.

Another Type of Groove: WOW Style
Come find out how words will change the world with WOW and the Cal Poly Multicultural Center at this feature Slam Poetry event. Showcasing nationally recognized spoken word artists, this is an undeniably powerful event that will move you with words, have you laughing, crying and understanding why poetry is contagious.

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Personal Responsibilities Presentation and Awareness Fair
This student-made presentation discusses healthy living, drugs and alcohol, sexual awareness, sexual assault and personal safety with an emphasis on the success of new students at Cal Poly. The presentation includes contact information for resources and leads into the Awareness Fair which allows students to get supplemental information and ask questions of on- and off-campus resources.

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Coping with Stress Awareness Presentations
Friday concludes the Awareness programming for the week with an important wrap-up presentation, Coping with Stress. Stress is a natural part of college life that every student will experience in various levels throughout his or her time at Cal Poly. Students will have the opportunity to explore their personal stressors, learn about resources available to them, and find comfort in the commonalities Cal Poly students share.

Day of Service
In conjunction with Cal Poly Student Community Services, WOW has implemented a Day of Service within the community. More than 70 WOW groups (approximately 700-1100 students) have volunteered to groom local garden projects, collect canned food for needy populations and provide staffing at local programs. This day will provide an invaluable service to the community and begin to enrich the college careers of the new students by showing them how they can make a difference while at Cal Poly.

WOW Block Party & Concert
Over 100 student-run clubs and organizations join forces with Student Life and Leadership, ASI and Campus Dining to take over the main street on campus with information booths, club performances, dinner, games, give-aways and live music in the WOW Block Party! The event culminates with a headliner concert, exclusively for WOW participants.

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Campus Resource Tours
Students will be given a tour guided by their WOW leaders of the campus as well as several highly-used campus resources, including Kennedy Library, Health and Counseling Center, Disability Resource Center, Career Services, University Police Department and Academic Skills Center.

Evening Activities
WOW sponsors several evening activities during the week, including a comedy show, a movie under the stars, and a professional slam poetry event, Another Type of Groove, as well as the exclusive WOW concert!

Other Group Activities
New students will be asked for additional money by their group leaders for other activities and excursions they have planned during the week. These activities may include kayaking, bonfires, movies, or meals off-campus, just to name a few! This extra money is not to exceed $25.

Note: During the Week of Welcome, new students will be asked by their Orientation Leaders to pay up to an additional $25. This additional payment is NOT covered in the WOW Student Fee, so please keep this in mind when making your WOW reservations. This extra money will be used for excursions such as kayaking, hot tubbing, eating off-campus, reimbursement for gas, etc. These activities provide an additional way for students to orient themselves with the community and bond with the other members of their WOW groups. These additional group activities are optional and new students do not have to participate if they do not wish to do so.

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