AMPLIFY ONGOING EXPERIENCES
What are Ongoing Experiences:
A requirement of being in Amplify is to participate in an Ongoing Experience, at least one per semester. The goal of these ongoing experiences are to support you, and to help you find community/connection somewhere on campus that you can stay with after your first year is over. We have worked with a few campus partners and have come up with a few “featured” experiences that we think are great, but overall these experiences can be flexible & should fit with what you want to do. We have read through your application and placed you into an experience based on your interests & our availability.
Amplify staff and student staff will be checking in with you about your experience as the semester goes on, so make sure your experience listed is one you are planning to attend!! At the end of the semester, we will reach out to see how it went, what info/message you have for future Amplify students who choose that experience, and if you have any cool memories/photos/video clips you’d be willing to share from your experience.
Fun fact – both of our PALs who were in Amplify last year are still engaged with their ongoing experiences! Ask Jaiden or Gwen about them 🙂
How do you change an ongoing experience?
Email us! Some experiences have additional steps to register / requirements / availability, so if you want to switch it please email us ASAP.
What if I want to do something else?
That is fine! This is intended to help support and connect you, so if you find something else that you want to engage in, that can definitely count as your ongoing experience. We know from personal experience that having someone to check in is helpful, especially as everyone intends to get involved, but taking that first step is hard. If this is too much/overwhelming, we can definitely work with you.
Current Spring 2026 Students: Email amplify_info@colostate.edu to change your experience for this semester if you want to change it!
Also, don’t forget to tell us when you go to an experience! You can find the Ongoing Experience Attendance Form Here. Even if you’re trying experiences out, fill out the form so we know you’re looking around!
Some Ongoing Experience Options
want to join a cool group of people & feel like you belong somewhere on campus? interested in learning how to make hands on science experiments from household items? Want to help make science more accessible to kiddos and others?
check out Lunches with Little Shop of Physics! Little Shop will be hosting weekly lunches (free food!) this semester with different topics & resources available to help with your first year. Plus, hang out in the shop the hour before or hour after lunch to work on experiments and talk to LSOP interns!
Time & Days: every Tuesday 12-1pm for lunch, join for the hour before or hour after
Location: NESB
Starting date: September 26th
Aim to make at least 6 per semester (but we think you’ll have fun and want to go to them all!)
We have many great mentoring opportunities at CSU! Here are some options below, but if you run across any others (some are major specific, or program specific) There are many more beyond this list, so if you find an opportunity you’d rather participate in, let us know!
- Rams in Q’mmunity – through the Pride Resource Center
- Mentoring through the Black/African American Resource Center
- Mentoring through the Asian/Pacific American Resource center
- La Conexión Peer mentoring program through El Centro
- North Star Peer Mentoring through Native American Cultural Center
- **** not limited to the above programs, any mentoring/peer mentoring program can work!***
Pick a club or student organization that you want to join. CSU has so many! You can view all orgs here on RamLink, and below are some that we’ve highlighted. You need to attend a club event/meeting 4 times per semester.
Entomology Club ACM ACM-W Sci-Fi & Fantasy Club Neuroscience Pre-Med Pre-Vet Chemistry Club Zoology Club RamRobotics Ornithology WiCys oSTEM (out in STEM) Psychology Student Association
We also have a few cultural/identity based clubs at CSU, including:
SACNAS: Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science
NSBE: National Society of Black Engineers (also open to STEM students)
AISES: American Indian Science and Engineering Society
SASE: Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers (SASE)
MANRRS: MANRRS (Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Related Sciences
SHPE: Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) (also open to STEM students)
Orgullo: a group interested in creating and building community for Latine folx at CSU
oSTEM: Out In Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
Required Times:
- You need to attend a club event/meeting 4 times per semester.
- Bookmark this attendance tracker, and when you attend the club event/meeting fill it out.
- Email us with which club you decide, so we can update your ongoing experience selection!
One ongoing experience can be you identifying you want a little help (and accountability) with your academics/a specific course! Look at your classes, identify one you would like to focus on. This experience is a way of holding yourself accountable (we will follow up with you, too!) to going to study groups/tutoring. You will sign in with the resource when you attend, and we will request the attendance & reach out to help keep you on track. You must attend this resource every other week, or 8 times in the semester.
There are many ways to access tutoring and academic support at CSU. Below are some of the options, with the courses that they offer support for:
TILT: BC351, BMS300, 301, BZ110, 350, CHEM107, 111, 113, 245, 341, 343, LIFE102, MATH 141, 155, 160, 161, 261, 340, 369, PH 121, 122, 141, 142
NACC Eagle Feather Tutoring: many courses. BC, CHEM, LIFE, MIP, MATH, BZ. Reservations needed.
Calc Center: MATH 141, 155, 156, 160, 161, 261, 340
PACe Center MATH 117, 118, 124, 125, 126
If you find another option (office hours, personal study group, tutoring through somewhere else) you can still choose it. Bookmark this Attendance tracker, you can use it to let us know what you attend!
Requirements for this experience:
- Aim to attend this resource/group/experience every other week, or 8 times in the semester – consistency is key!!
- When you email us, let us know which course you’re going for & which resource (Tilt, Eagle Feather, etc) that you want to commit to attending!
Want to get to inform how millions of dollars gets spent in the university? College council is made up of CNS students who get to make decisions about how the money is spent. Participate in this experience if you want to build leadership skills and influence resource flow in the College.
Fall 2025: Meeting times are still tbd.
Spaces are somewhat limited for this experience, so please email us if you are excited about it!
Want to get to know a local Fort Collins 3rd or 5th grader? One on one mentoring can be so powerful. This program is for kiddos who come to CSU each week and do homework, fun science, and just hang out with college students. Spanish speakers highly encouraged to apply because many of these kids speak Spanish (but it’s not required!) More info can be found on the website: https://www.cns-eoc.colostate.edu/triunfo/
The time commitments for this experience are:
- Fall 2025:
- Attend a 1 hour orientation session – Time and dates TBD!
- Attend Triunfo! the program runs 2:45-4:30pm on Thursdays, usually 6 times per semester (will post dates here once they are available)
Learn more & Apply to MURALS First Year Scholars here!
MURALS First Year Scholars (FYS) is a program that connects first year students to research!! Research can look like working in labs, developing projects, data collecting, surveying, literature reviews, field work, and will all include working with a faculty member (make those connections!), make a research plan, receive a stipend ($2k for 10 weeks of work) and present your work at MURALS.
Main time commitments for the MURALS FYS program include:
- If you are offered a position in the MURALS FYS program, please make sure you confirm it.
- Orientation sometime in early September
- 4-6 hours per week working on your research/project beginning in September
- Attend MURALS FYS Academy community meetings (twice a month), create a project & present at MURALs, and potentially other venues!
If you’ve applied to the FYS and want that to be your ongoing experience, please let us know via email! If you’d like to select another ongoing experience, let us know which one!
The Victim Assistance Team (VAT) is here to provide confidential support and advocacy to Colorado State University students and any family or friends who have experienced sexual assault, dating/domestic violence, and stalking on or off campus.
The VAT offers training to become a volunteer in the fall – it is a 40 hour training, and there is also an option to receive CSU credits for taking the training.
You can find more info here: https://wgac.colostate.edu/involvement/victim-assistance-team-volunteers/
Campus Connections Therapeutic Youth Mentoring program is a high-impact course (3 credits) at Colorado State University and a program serving local youth. You will be a part of a “family” of CSU mentors and local youth mentor of similar ages, and will work to give them exposure to a college campus, academic support, dinner, pro-social activities, and integrated mental health services. Youth are referred from the juvenile system, schools, human services, and many other providers who recognize the tremendous benefits of therapeutic mentoring for youth.
The Campus Connections mentor application, informational video, and more details are located here: https://www.chhs.colostate.edu/cc/csu-student-involvement/
If you’re signed up for the CNS Career Seminar (exploring how your major can turn into a career!) this counts as your ongoing experience 🙂
More info for Fall 2025:
- Course Description: Guidance for students to explore who they are individually, strategies for pursuing a career or a graduate program in the sciences, how to develop their career path to be competitive in the selection process, and preparation of their marketing materials to be used in the future. Helps students gain a better understanding of their individual skills, values, and interests imperative to being successful in a career search.
- Registration Information: Undergraduate majors in the College of Natural Sciences only. This is a partial semester course. Credit not allowed for both NSCI 181A1 and NSCI 193.
- Credit: 1
- Open to first years through seniors
- In-person
- Location: Inside the Career Center
This doesn’t exist this year… but if you’d be into a neurodivergent focused ongoing experience, let us know! (we are gauging interest) experience – email us (amplify_info@colostate.edu) or email Lindsey to confirm your spot, or confirm a different ongoing experience!
Fall 2024 students: You will need to select an ongoing experience as a part of Amplify Psychology. We recommend:
- Psychology Student Association attend (4 times/semester)
- FYS Psych Academy
- Triunfo
