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!
Each lunch will also feature a talk/speaker from an interesting area on campus or a cool resource.
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!)
Capacity for this experience is limited, please let us know (email amplify_info@colostate.edu) if you want to officially commit to this experience!
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 Astronomy Club Biochemistry Club Student Association Biological Artists Guild Chemistry Club
Collar Scholars CSU CSU Outdoor Club Forensic Science Club Game Development Association Math Club Neuroscience Student Org
Our Banned Bookshelf Ornithology Photography Club Pre-Dental Pre-Med Pre-Vet Psychology Student Association RamRobotics
Sci-Fi & Fantasy Club Society For Conservation Biology Swim & Dive The Book Was Better WiCys WIP (we’re in Physics) Zoology Club
We also have 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
First Generation Student Org (FGSO): a group for students who are the first in your family to go to college
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!
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 2026: Meeting times are still tbd. Email Lindsey for more info!
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 2026:
- 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)
There are a few different options oriented around LGBTQIA+ community at CSU. Some experiences students have enjoyed in the past have been:
— IU172 Course:
an 8 week 1 credit course (IU172),
— Out in STEM Student Org (oSTEM)
a student org called Out in STEM, and an ongoi
— Rams Q’mmunity Mentoring with the Pride Resource Center.
Rams in Q’mmunity is the Pride Resource Center’s mentoring program open to all students, with an emphasis on supporting students who are new to CSU or our center. Inspired by the concept of chosen family, this program helps students build skills for creating their own support systems, growing their self-confidence, and succeeding academically. Building community at CSU impacts your sense of belonging, your continued growth and well-being, and ultimately your success and retention – we are here to help! Don’t just navigate university life; thrive in it with the Rams in Q’mmunity Mentoring Program!
Please contact Kait Stevens at k.stevens@colostate.edu to receive a CRC Peer Mentoring Program Interest Form to join!
you can pick being involved in a Cultural Resource Center to be an ongoing experience! They each have many things going on throughout the semester, including fun activities, mentoring, events, a cultural week, speakers and excursions. If you pick one of these, it is a ‘choose-your-own-adventure’ style, where you can pick 3 (or more) events to attend per semester.
Asian Pacific American Cultural Center (APACC)
Black/African American Cultural Center (BAACC)
Native American Cultural Center
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!
- Your PAL (peer mentor) will check in with you regularly about how it is going, so you will have an accountability buddy!
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!
Selection for MURALS FYS happens after the start of the Fall semester. If you’ve applied to the MURALS 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!
If you are not selected for MURALS FYS, you will need to pick an alternate experience.
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/
This is a class! If you’re interested in this experience, tell your advisor during your registration, when you register for classes! Note that your advisor knows best, and this might not fit with your firstsemester class schedule (you can take it later too.)
More info for Fall 2026:
- 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
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 🙂
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
How to Join:
Email the coordinator of the resource center to receive the CRC Peer Mentoring Program Interest Form to join!
**** not limited to the above programs, any mentoring/peer mentoring program can work!***
ASCSU (Associated Students of CSU)
ASCSU – CSU wide student government. Opportunities for first years include being able to comment on resolutions, joining committees, applying to be a senator in your second semester, and more! Get involved page
RHA (Residence Hall Association)
The Residence Hall Association (RHA) is a student leadership organization that represents students living in the residence halls at Colorado State University. RHA helps build community through events, advocacy, and leadership opportunities for residential students. Students involved in RHA help create a more connected and engaging on-campus living experience.
Learn more and get involved through CSU RHA
Regional Council
Regional Councils are hall-based leadership groups that help strengthen community within residential areas at Colorado State University. Members plan programs, support student engagement, and advocate for resident needs. Regional Councils provide students with opportunities to get involved and make an impact where they live.
Learn more and get involved through CSU Regional Councils
NRHH (National Residence Hall Honorary)
NRHH is a leadership and recognition organization that celebrates students who make outstanding contributions to the residential community at Colorado State University. Members focus on service, recognition, and leadership development while supporting a positive residence hall experience. NRHH also connects students to broader leadership opportunities through NACURH.
Learn more and get involved through CSU NRHH
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!
