{"id":4983,"date":"2023-10-25T17:17:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T17:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=4983"},"modified":"2023-10-25T17:17:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T17:17:12","slug":"students-get-creative-during-pumpkin-painting-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/10\/25\/students-get-creative-during-pumpkin-painting-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Students get creative during Pumpkin Painting event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 Students painted pumpkins to mark the arrival of the Fall season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The University Activities Council (UAC), Freshman Forum, and the Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) Sorority hosted a pumpkin painting event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students channeled their creativity on orange and white pumpkins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This is a part of the Enhance Our Environment initiative so we thought that this would be a great way and a fun way to get the students involved and be able to fellowship with them,&#8221; said AKA President Kayla Boley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some students worked in groups while others worked independently. Themes included Marvel colors, DC characters, skeletons and the iconic TROY figure, T-Roy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re doing donut-themed pumpkins and we are a trio so we&#8217;re going to each have different colors,&#8221; explained sophomore Ariel Smith. &#8220;It&#8217;s going to be pink, white, and chocolate. We just chose them together because we wanted to unify our friendship and our pumpkins.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students were also given the option to enter their freshly-painted pumpkins into a contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year&#8217;s winners were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1st Place: Lilian Shacklee<br>2nd Place: Em Lucas<br>3rd Place: Theo Thoenes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 Students painted pumpkins to mark the arrival of the Fall season.<\/p>\n<p>The University Activities Council (UAC), Freshman Forum, and the Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) Sorority hosted a pumpkin painting event.<\/p>\n<p>Students channeled their creativity on orange and white pumpkins.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a part of the Enhance Our Environment initiative so we&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/10\/25\/students-get-creative-during-pumpkin-painting-event\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":4984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[1238,52,252],"topics":[17],"class_list":["post-4983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-aka","tag-freshman-forum","tag-uac","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4983"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=4983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}