Academic Mentor Team (AMT) under the guidance of Dean Ilona McGuiness hosts an Ice Cream Social for First-Year Students (September 2006)
First-year students take a cruise aboard Baltimore's Bay Lady @ the Inner Harbor - September 2006
Meet the Chaperones
2nd Annual Egg Drop Contest & Ice Cream Social - October 2006 (drop zone - 4th floor balcony, student center)
Students from Baltimore's Polytechnic High School were invited to share in the experience
The contest was based on Galileo's experiments with falling bodies (Leaning Tower of Pisa)
Contest Rules: device had to be homemade; less than 2.2 lbs.; cost of materials less than $20
Ready
Set
Go........
The winner!! closest to the target
Now, the good part - Ice Cream!!!
Suzanne Keilson from Alpha Engineering organized the contest
First Annual Alpha Poster Board Contest - Dec. 4-6, 2006
Cash prizes awarded in Natural Sciences; Photography; Business; Writing; Humanities; and Other Groups
A select number of professors who teach in the Alpha Program judged the students on intellectual excellence, diversity, critical understanding and other undergraduate learning aims.
Majors Fair - February 2007 freshmen, and sophomores have opportunity to discuss possible majors with professors and upperclassmen