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Herky crowd surfs just prior to when the Block I group photo of all incoming students will be shot.

Students dance in Hubbard Park during a silent disco event during move in week.

A student throws up peace signs after sliding down a 20 foot waterslide at a new student welcoming event. 

Students make their way to the exits after class. 

CALS QuickStart students Mya Ayala, left, and Liam Petrie, right, stack and balance Oreo cookies on their foreheads while competing in “Minute to Win It”-style games during early move-in week programming in the Microbial Sciences Building at UW–Madison in Madison, Wis., Monday, Aug. 28, 2023.

The CAMO (Campus Movement) crew promised a  15,000 Water Balloon fight and they did not disappoint. Several hundred students participated in the night-time welcome back event and most were soaking wet by the end but at least one balloon failed to burst at short range. 

A 4-H University youth participant works a fingerprint brush over a fake ID in a hands-on forensics class offered by the University of Florida's police department. For one week every summer hundreds of Florida 4-H youth come to the university in order to partake in skill building, learning workshops, and collegiate preparation offered by the university. 

Kids dive for candy from a piñata at the end of a community art installation. 

The National Pan-Hellenic Council along with the Multicultural Greek Council put on an event called Yard Show. Each active chapter's fraternity and sorority members will represent their organization's core values through stepping, strolling and saluting performances. The Week of Welcome Yard Show will allow the campus community to be educated on the roots and significance of these cultural expressions as well as seeing the diversity within the Greek community. This image was created during one of the performances. 

"It's the last big hurdle," said Jenna Doyle, a senior biomedical engineering student, as they work on tweaking an automated press-fit assembly cell senior project for the Engineering Design Conference on August 4.