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Freshman Leaders in Progress provides incoming freshmen with a support system and social foundation, while teaching them valuable leadership skills that will benefit them for the rest of their college experience, as well as life after college. FLiP creates the foundation for lifelong friendships and empowers its members to achieve the goals they set for themselves by incorporating leadership development, service, and social skills. FLiP’s purpose is to shape and enhance the overall college experience for the incoming freshmen.
Why apply to FLiP?
The purpose of FLiP is to enhance the overall leadership experience of freshmen at Texas A&M. By exposing motivated freshmen to leadership concepts such as teamwork, delegation, decision making, leadership styles, creativity, problem-solving, shared vision and building interpersonal relationships it is expected that these freshmen will further these concepts during the rest of their college career as well as their lives. By implementing these skills through mentorship programs, outreach and service it is believed that these freshmen will enhance and progress in their leadership development.
To provide a glimpse into what the experience of being in ASSIST looks like, the FLO’s Student Leaders completed an assessment of their previous year. The following should be used as information to help you make an informed decision about being a member of AFC, but please note that your experience may look different.
What does a “week in FLiP” look like?
Monday- Monday Night Meetings, we meet at the MSC for dinner at 7:30 then having the meeting at 8:30.
Tuesday- Taco Tuesday, we pick a different local Mexican restaurant in College Station and meet there for dinner.
Wednesday- Nothing
Thursday- Crew, the freshmen are split up into “Crews” at the beginning of the year and participate in weekly competitions such as dodgeball, lip sync battle, minute-to-win-it games, etc. Winner of the year-long crew games are announced at the end of the year.
Friday-Neal/FLiP Friday, we go to Neal Elementary School and hangout with the 3rd graders during their recess and teach them a valuable lesson, such as about kindness or friendship, at the end of recess and how they can implement that into their everyday lives. After we have FLiP Fridays, where we just hangout as an organization and watch a movie, go to rec, etc.
Every event is also optional, so the freshman can put the amount of time they want into the organization.
What did the remote experience look like due to COVID-19?
FLiP adapted in numerous ways going remote. Some of our changes include an organization instagram, where we post participants and winners of our Thursday “crew”, or competition events. This events included competitions best Tik-Tok, best Meme, Jeopardy, etc. We were able to post these easily on our Instagram and keep members involved and engaged. On Tuesday we had counselors go live on our Instagram and teach members how to cook a certain food- we called this “Cooking with a counselor”. Apart from our Instagram, we had Houseparty/Facetime groups so everyone could further build on the relationships they had started forming this year.
Organization Size:
Position | Freshmen | Counselors | Executives |
# Students | 56 | 14 | 4 |
Being involved with AFC I can expect to pay…
Dues & Known Costs | · Fall Semester: $100
· Spring Semester: $100 |
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Financial Aid
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FLOs are evaluated yearly based on several factors. Three of these factors are Leadership, Service, and Social. Here is what last year’s members experienced in these areas:
Leadership | · Lead Meetings- Freshman have the opportunity to lead meetings second semester.
· Find Sponsors- They can find local business sponsors for certain events we put on. · Advertise at FLO/organization meetings- They can attend another organization’s meeting to advertise our public events. · · Speaker Jim Olson- 1 hour on loyalty and public service · Speaker Craig Rotter- 1.5 on tradition · Speaker Brandi Plunkett- 1 hour on business and professionalism · · General Meeting activities- Every Monday Night Meeting we have an interactive game/activity pertaining to leadership. |
Service | · Neal Drive- We collect school supplies for the students at Neal Elementary.
· Big Event- We team up with another FLO and participate in Big Event. · Mosaic Valentine- We host a valentines day themed party and a nursing home and provide food and games for the residents. · Winter Service Retreat- We plan a service retreat for the Winter in Houston. Last year we volunteered at The Forge for a day. “ |
Social | · BroBowl- We host and plan the boy’s FLO flag football tournament.
· 3 FLO Social- We made S’mores at a park with FAST and FORME. · FLO Social- We usually will plan a FLiP Friday with another FLO once or twice a year, last year we hung out at the Rec with FORME. · Attend FLO-Bowl · Attend Mr. FLO · Franklin Safari- We go to Franklin Safari as an organization second semester. · Taco Tuesday- We eat dinner at a Mexican Restaurant together every Tuesday. |
Does FLiP have a Big/Little Program? Yes
What does the Big/Little Experience entail?
The Bigs offer guidance/advice regarding the freshman’s first of college, such as school work, classes, organizations, etc. They are introduced through planned mixers, and we have different events including Bigs during the year as well.
Want to learn more?
Attend the FLAC Coordinated livestreams, informationals, and reach out to the student leaders using the contact information available on this page.
Find the full recruitment schedule here: https://flac.tamu.edu/schedule/
Want to Apply?
Go to: https://flac.tamu.edu/apply/