>> My name is Michael Willett.
I'm one of the two program directors at Southern
Adventures, which is the outdoor rec component
of campus recreation, intramurals.
So we do equipment rentals, we do adventure
trips, climbing wall, challenge course.
We maintain a bike shop.
So a lot of the, you know, stuff to get
GSU students, faculty, and staff outside.
We do a lot of kayaking because, you know,
coastal Georgia and so close to Florida.
We'll do a kayaking trip with
manatees down in Florida.
So you'll be kayaking, there's
manatees everywhere.
We'll do a bioluminescent kayaking trip,
which is another really popular one
because you're piloting at night, and
the water around you is glowing blue.
We do a ski trip, a couple of
backpacking trips a semester,
and some climbing trips are big ones, and then
we have some local ones where we'll go canoeing
or kayaking up at George L. Smith,
which is just right up the road.
So we do a lot of promotion, both
in the rack and also on campus.
So that's kind of the side of
getting the word out there.
And so what we're doing, we have a marketing
department within CRI that, you know,
we give them a marketing request.
They're the designers, and they, you know,
design everything up, and they'll put it
out there, and we'll put it out there as well.
But, you know, typical day, we, you know, it
changes every day as far as what we're doing.
You know, we had, yesterday we have a
full-staff meeting, and we're getting ready
for the student tailgate tonight,
which we're, you know, going to,
and we're requiring our staff to go to.
So it's not just outdoor rec stuff.
I mean, it's, we're the outdoor rec component of
CRI, but as a part of CRI, we have to, you know,
buy into all that other stuff
and participate on campus.
So we're doing a lot, you know, like
the tailgate and things like that.
So. Yeah, we actually do an adventure race
in the fall called Iron Eagle Challenge,
and it's a race around campus where
teams of two will run, bike, and paddle,
and it's a little less than five miles.
It's pretty simple.
Most of it's on bike.
So it's pretty inclusive, and while they're
running the race or biking the race,
they have to complete mystery events.
So it could be, you know, crawling
through a mud pit or a puzzle
that tests your teamwork
abilities with your partner.
Things like that.
So it's not your typical race.
There's a lot of spice thrown into it.
So that's our big fall event, and then
in the spring we have Southern Synfest,
which is our bouldering competition.
And then we have big spring break trips.
We've got a scuba diving trip to
the Florida Keys this spring break,
and we've got the Southern Adventure, which
is backpacking and white water rafting
in North Carolina/Tennessee area.
So those are kind of our big,
big projects throughout the year.