school

🔗 2021

🔗 Week 0 (June 14)

June 14: orientation 0
- 12pm to 5pm EST
June 15: orientation 1
- 12pm to 5pm EST
June 16: orientation 2
- 12pm to 5pm EST
June 17: orientation 3
- 12pm to 5pm EST
June 18: orientation 4
- 12pm to 5pm EST
June 18: stipend installment 1 mailed
- date pending confirmation by MSU
June 19: Juneteenth

🔗 Week 1 (June 21)

June 21: group check-in meeting
- 2pm to 3:30pm EST
June 25: enrichment seminar 1
- 2pm to 3:30pm EST

🔗 Week 2 (June 28)

June 28: group check-in meeting
- 2pm to 3:30pm EST
July 2: enrichment seminar 2
- 2pm to 3:30pm EST
July 2: stipend installment 2 mailed
- date pending confirmation by MSU
July 4: Independence Day

🔗 Week 3 (July 5)

July 5: group check-in meeting
- 2pm to 3:30pm EST
July 9: enrichment seminar 3
- 2pm to 3:30pm EST

🔗 Week 4 (July 12)

July 12: group check-in meeting
- 2pm to 3:30pm EST
July 16: enrichment seminar 4
- 2pm to 3:30pm EST
July 16: stipend installment 3 mailed
- date pending confirmation by MSU

🔗 Week 5 (July 19)

July 19: group check-in meeting
- 2pm to 3:30pm EST
July 23: enrichment seminar 5
- 2pm to 3:30pm EST

🔗 Week 6 (July 26)

July 26: group check-in meeting
- 2pm to 3:30pm EST
July 30: enrichment seminar 6
- 2pm to 3:30pm EST
July 30: stipend installment 4 mailed
- date pending confirmation by MSU

🔗 Week 7 (August 2)

August 2: group check-in meeting
- 2pm to 3:30pm EST
August 6: enrichment seminar 7
- 2pm to 3:30pm EST

🔗 Week 8 (August 9)

August 9: blog post outline due
August 9: group check-in meeting
- 2pm to 3:30pm EST
August 12: working draft blog post due
August 13: enrichment seminar 8
- 2pm to 3:30pm EST
August 13: stipend installment 5 mailed
- date pending confirmation by MSU

🔗 Week 9 (August 16)

August 16: group check-in meeting
- 2pm to 3:30pm EST
August 17: blog post peer feedback due
August 18: BEACON Congress
August 19: BEACON Congress
August 20: BEACON Congress
August 20: WAVES closing celebration
- 2pm to 3:30pm EST
August 20: final draft blog post due

🔗 2020

🔗 Week 0

May 25: Memorial Day
May 26: orientation 0
- meeting 1 to 4pm EST
May 27: orientation 1
- meeting 2:30pm to 4pm EST
May 28: orientation 2
- meeting 1pm to 2pm EST
May 29: orientation 3
- meeting 1pm to 2pm EST

🔗 Week 1

June 1: orientation 4
- meeting 1pm to 2pm EST
June 1: group check-in meeting
- 2:30 to 4pm EST
June 3: enrichment seminar 1
- 2:30 to 4pm EST
- mentor: Emily Dolson
June 3: virtual social games hour
- 7 to 8pm EST
June 5: non-MSU participants stipend installment 1 mailed
- pending assignment of vendor numbers by MSU

🔗 Week 2

June 8: group check-in meeting
- 2:30 to 4pm EST
~~June 10: enrichment seminar 2~~
- ~~2:30 to 4pm EST~~
- ~~mentor: Matthew Andres Moreno~~
- in response to current events, mentor has declined to lead this seminar

🔗 Week 3

June 15: group check-in meeting
- 2:30 to 4pm EST
June 17: enrichment seminar 3
- 2:30 to 4pm EST
- mentor: Acacia Ackles
June 17: virtual social games hour
- 7 to 8pm EST
June 19: Juneteenth
June 19: stipend installments mailed
- MSU students stipend installments 1 and 2 mailed
- non-MSU students stipend installment 2 mailed

🔗 Week 4

June 22: group check-in meeting
- 2:30 to 4pm EST
June 24: enrichment seminar 4
- 2:30 to 4pm EST
- mentor: TBD
June 24: virtual social games hour
- 7 to 8pm EST

🔗 Week 5

June 29: group check-in meeting
- 2:30 to 4pm EST
July 1: enrichment seminar 5
- 2:30 to 4pm EST
- mentor: TBD
July 1: virtual social games hour
- 7 to 8pm EST
July 3: stipend installment 3 mailed

🔗 Week 6

July 6: group check-in meeting
- 2:30 to 4pm EST
July 8: enrichment seminar 6
- 2:30 to 4pm EST
July 8: virtual social games hour
- 7 to 8pm EST

🔗 Week 7

week of ALIFE 2020 conference
- some workshop meetings may be canceled
July 13: group check-in meeting
- 2:30 to 4pm EST
July 15: enrichment seminar 7
- 2:30 to 4pm EST
July 15: virtual social games hour
- 7 to 8pm EST
July 17: stipend installment 4 mailed

🔗 Week 8

July 20: group check-in meeting
- 2:30 to 4pm EST
July 20: blog post outline due
July 22: enrichment seminar 8
- 2:30 to 4pm EST
- panel discussion on the good, the bad, & the ugly of project wrap-up/hand-off
July 22: virtual social games hour
- 7 to 8pm EST
July 24: working draft blog post due

🔗 Week 9

July 27: group check-in meeting
- 2:30 to 4pm EST
- participants each briefly (1 to 2 min.) overview project wrap-up/hand-off plans
July 29: enrichment seminar 9
- 2:30 to 4pm EST
July 29: virtual social games hour
- 7 to 8pm EST
July 29: blog post peer feedback due
July 31: WAVES closing celebration
- 1pm to 2pm EST
July 31: final draft blog post due
July 31: stipend installment 5 mailed