{"id":94022,"date":"2025-08-22T09:59:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=94022"},"modified":"2025-08-25T10:08:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:08:14","slug":"kicking-off-rocket-welcome-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/08_22_2025\/kicking-off-rocket-welcome-weekend","title":{"rendered":"Kicking Off Rocket Welcome Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cyler Amor, left, a junior mechanical engineering major, and Randi Pike, a sophomore majoring in social work and resident assistant in Parks Tower, front a group of dancers at Thursday night&#8217;s Residence Life Bonfire in the Flatlands.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-94023\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/08.21.25-4606-Boonfire.jpg\" alt=\"A group of students, including Cyler Amor, a junior mechanical engineering major, and Randi Pike, a sophomore social work major, dance at the annual Residence Life bonfire in the Flatlands.\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/08.21.25-4606-Boonfire.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/08.21.25-4606-Boonfire-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Payton Schmitz, a senior communication major, and Jacob Wells, a senior bioengineering major, match up in a game of connect four during Thursday&#8217;s welcome back picnic at Honors Academic Village.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-94024\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/08.21.25-4494-HAV.jpeg\" alt=\"Payton Schmitz, a senior media communication major, and Jacob Wells, a senior bioengineering major, play connect four at HAV's welcome back picnic.\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/08.21.25-4494-HAV.jpeg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/08.21.25-4494-HAV-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Freshmen Zachary Green, left, a computer science major, and Brady Losie, a mechanical engineering major, play cornhole during Thursday&#8217;s Residence Life Bonfire, which featured music, yard games and s&#8217;mores.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-94026\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/08.21.25-4722-bonfire.jpeg\" alt=\"Zachary Green, a freshman computer science major and Brady Losie, freshman mechanical engineering major, play cornhole at last night's bonfire.\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/08.21.25-4722-bonfire.jpeg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/08.21.25-4722-bonfire-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A group of students pose for a photo at the Residence Life Bonfire. The annual event, which follows move-in day for The University of Toledo&#8217;s first-year students, is part of the Rocket Welcome Weekend celebration that goes through Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-94025\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/08.21.25-4656-bonfire.jpeg\" alt=\"A group of UToledo students pose for a picture in front of the fire pit during the 2025 Residence Life Bonfire in the Flatlands.\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/08.21.25-4656-bonfire.jpeg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/08.21.25-4656-bonfire-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UToledo students dance Thursday during the annual Residence Life Bonfire, which is part of a series of events welcoming students to campus ahead of the first day of classes on Monday, Aug. 25. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":94023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,5,61,36,498,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94022"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94036,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94022\/revisions\/94036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}