At our most recent General Member meeting we decided to have some extra fun by having a field day!  Our VP of Membership Carley Howell planned for us to spend time together playing games, beginning with "Fire in the Forest."  In this game we started by choosing to be one of three designated animals: Platypus, Goldfish, or Lion.  We then had the arduous task of running across the field when our animal species was called, trying hard not to be tagged by two taggers. 

        It sounds easy at first, but as you can see in this next picture it clearly demonstrates our athleticism after a few minutes.  Apparently we need to host SIFE gym sessions as well hahaha.

     




        And here are our beautiful onlookers, or rather those that were eliminated after a bit during another game.  We look so poised and peacful if I might say so :)

  


    A duel is ensuing as these two contenders vie for a $15 iTunes gift-card!  They are the last to hold out after a hard fought game.  This also looks like a scene from our very own Crouching Wildcat, Hidden Dragon film up for a few Oscars next year.  Look out for it soon on DVD!

        And here are some of our lovely SIFE family members taking a cue from the UA Cheer team.  We not only build great projects, we also build great pyramids!  :)  We had so much fun bonding as a team and taking a break from our busy lives to let go for a bit.  Because life is all fun and games sometimes :) Until then...

           
            This past Valentine's Day our fearless Vice President of Membership Carley Howell came up with the great idea of creating Valentine's Day cards for a local retirement home as a way of spreading our love to the Tucson community.

         As a team we spent a general member meeting creating beautiful and thoughtful cards from various types of materials.  It definitely brought back great memories of creating similar cards in middle school with craft paper, glue, scissors, glitter, etc....oh the simple days :)

            Spending time together as a team crafting these pieces of art (we try) also served as a great way to catch up on each others busy lives.  This experience was very therapeutic, and it was great knowing that we were creating something that would hopefully make someone's day or week. 

           

        We hope you all had just as good of a Valentine's Day as we did, it's the little, and big things too that count! Until then...

   

Recently, we turned what would have been a normal Wednesday general meeting into something quite the opposite by having a campus wide scavenger hunt culminating in a team pizza dinner!  The scavenger hunt was a competition between the many project teams that comprise our University of Arizona SIFE Team.

 

    The event started by splitting into our designated teams and joining hands to create, then unravel a human knot.  After the teams unraveled themselves ( which was a feat in itself as some teams are made up of over twenty members) they then had to solve a riddle that lead them to their next destination and set of clues.

    At the subsequent destinations the teams were tasked with doing such things as creating the best "business professional" look with sometimes less than appropriate choices, answering questions about SIFE history, answering more riddles, all the while taking pictures along the way. 

    We all had a lot of fun as this was a great way for our team to get to know one another, as well as to meet other members with whom we may not get to interact with on a regular basis. 

    This event would not have been possible without the organization and creativity of our new Vice President of Membership Carley Howell and our Vice President of Marketing and Public Relations Kiley Dumas.