ACE Festival Attendance Requirements
Schedule Keynote Speaker Attendance Requirement
Don’t miss it!
You won’t want to miss the Academic & Creative Excellence Festival! Support your peers, enjoy a break from your classes, and join the celebration! The Festival provides a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary networking and interaction outside your own program or major.
Attendance at the festival is required for all undergraduate students. To enable full participation in festival events, undergraduate classes will not be held between 8 am and 5 pm on the Thursday of the festival.
To meet the attendance expectations, students should first attend the keynote address on Wednesday, April 15.
Then, on Thursday April 16, students are expected to participate in organized activities for an amount of time equal to or exceeding the time that would have otherwise been spent in class sessions.
To fully experience the festival, mix it up and try to attend different types of events. Options include:
- Oral presentation sessions
- Poster and project sessions
- EMU Authors' Reception and award presentations
- Visual and performing arts (music) events
- Possibly some events offered on other evenings of Festival week (see Festival Schedule)
Students are strongly encouraged to attend events featuring students from outside their own academic program. Professors may require attendance at specific events as part of course requirements.
In the case of potentially conflicting requirements from different courses, students may use their best judgement about which events to attend. Also, note that presenting or performing in a festival event counts as attendance at that event!
Earning Engage credit
Students may earn two EMU Engage points by attending the keynote address in person on Wednesday morning. Certain other evening events may be listed in the EMU Engage calendar for one point.
QR codes will replace scanning in and out at each breakout event between 8 am and 5 pm on Thursday, April 16. Attending three events will earn one Engage point.
Exceptions: Lunch, coffee breaks, the nursing toy display, or the arts club exhibit do not count as events for Engage points.
QR codes will be available at the end of each event. They will be linked to a form that will ask for your email address and ID#. To earn Engage points from an event, bring your phone.
