Students who attend the in-person welcome event to earn this badge will engage in the following activities:

• Strengthening the Cyber Infrastructure Professionals Ecosystem (SCIPE) Training (optional).
• Ice Breakers with fellow incoming students.
• MEES Graduate Student Organization panel.
• Meeting the UMCES president, Dr. Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm.
• Water sampling cruise on the Rachel Carson Research Vessel.
• Canoeing with peers.
• All MEES picnic.
• Record keeping and field notes lesson.
• BioBlitz to identify as many organisms as possible utilizing iNaturalist.
• Notebook reflections and communications exercise.

Throughout this welcome event, students will get to know their fellow students through discussions and team building. They will also become acquainted with the university and feel more prepared to begin the graduate school experience.