The University Program Council hosted Hops and Pops on the green space. The event came complete with multiple inflatables ranging from a large moon bounce to a bungy-trampoline.
From 12-2pm the greenspace filled with students, inflatables and popsicles catered from the well-liked popsicle company, Steel City Pops. By an hour and a half into the event, Hops and Pops had run out of popsicles. “It is actually really great, we’ve had almost 400 people come so I am really excited about that” said Event Director, junior Kendall Davis. “We expected 200 minimum to come, so we’ve had a really good turnout especially for a Friday.”
This year makes the second celebration of the fun, outdoorsy event encouraging Auburn students to come together and enjoy an afternoon out on the greenspace in the nice weather. This year the event is a partnership with SGA’s Family Fridays.
“This was not really my event but I was so excited about it I wanted to partner up with them and help them out for the day. said UPC Director of Fine Arts Maddie Hickman. “We used our kind of event planning to partner with [SGA] because Family Fridays are such an established thing.”
“Family Fridays are always just a way to bring people together, have lunch, sit on the greenspace in the beautiful sun and everything” said Hickman. Partnerships like Friday’s event are an initiative to make Family Fridays more well-known on campus and show that these organizations and many others like it are inclusive and welcoming to everybody.
Planning for this event began in January and consisted of reaching out to vendors including the inflatable company from the past year’s event, contacting Steel City Pops and handling publicity and P.R. for the event.
Davis encourages students attending UPC events saying they are always free fun event usually including food.
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