This year’s NSU Community-Fest will be the biggest in its eight-year history.
The festival, which will take place on Feb. 12 at the Gold Circle Lake, from noon – 4 p.m., will feature more than 95 booths from student organizations, university departments and colleges.
Michelle Manley, assistant director of Student Media and Information, adviser to The Current and the event’s founder, said, “It’s about building school spirit and giving the NSU community an opportunity to get to know what is available here. It’s about celebrating who we are in a fun atmosphere.”
The event will also feature 14 food vendors, a bounce house, euro bungee, a rock climbing wall, caricaturists and other activities. There will booths from LiveNation, the Florida Marlins, the Florida Panthers and the CW. When the festival first began, there were only 24 booths from student organizations.
This is the last year that Manley will organize the event. The Office of Special Events and Projects will take over the planning.
“There’s a sadness to it but I’m excited that it’s going to continue,” said Manley.
It is a group effort, however. Manley said it takes more than 100 students to organize CommunityFest.
April Boudet, second-year nursing student, will volunteer for the College of Allied Health and Nursing.
“I think it’s a good way to reach out to the community and, as nurses, we’re all about community outreach and education,” she said.
Manley said her favorite part of the event comes after it’s over. “When I walk around campus a week after or the day after and I see people wearing the CommunityFest T-shirts and they still have that spirit — that is worth all the other stuff I have to go through,” she said.
Claude Alphonse, sophomore criminal justice major, will attend the event for the first time.
“I think it’s going to be fun because it seems like there will be a lot of activities and everyone will be gathered there,” he said.
For more information on the event log on to www.nova.edu/studentleadership/communityfest.
