The 2024 Freshman Celebration
The 19th Annual Freshman Celebration
November 20 & 21, 2024 in the CSUN Northridge Center
About the Freshman Celebration
The first Freshman Celebration at CSUN took place in 2006 with participation limited to Freshman Connection students. In 2007 the Celebration was opened to all students enrolled in a fall U100 class. As enrollment has continued to grow, so has the Celebration.
Each fall, freshmen taking University 100 are invited to participate in a campus-wide celebration of their first-semester academic achievements. This showcase, the Freshman Celebration, is modeled on CSUN's Undergraduate and Graduate Student Research and Creative Works Symposium. The student projects often (but not always) are related to the their Information Competence Research or Community-Based Learning Project.
Judges' Grand Prize Criteria
- Critical thinking (defined in the Information Competence Vocabulary list at the University Library as “The process of effectively examining and questioning information in order to weigh evidence and make choices and/or take action”.
- Including appropriate credit to sources, if applicable
- Significance and importance of content and/or meaning
- Creativity, artistry, and aesthetic value
Freshman Celebration Archives
- 2023 Freshman Celebration
- 2022 Freshman Celebration
- 2021 Freshman Celebration
- 2020 Freshman Celebration
- 2019 Freshman Celebration
- 2018 Freshman Celebration
- 2017 Freshman Celebration
- 2016 Freshman Celebration
- 2015 Freshman Celebration
- 2014 Freshman Celebration
- 2013 Freshman Celebration
- 2012 Freshman Celebration
- 2011 Freshman Celebration
- 2010 Freshman Celebration
- 2009 Freshman Celebration
- 2008 Freshman Celebration
