This is it! The week of the flash mob is finally here! After weeks of prep and planning, the day finally arrived, along with two days of severe thunderstorms that threatened to scuttle the operation… but on Thursday, April 6, the clouds cleared, the sun came out, and we had a gorgeous day for a flash mob!
The students were out on the Green setting up the chalk outline at 11:00am. Photographers from university communications and social media took up their vantage points on the ground and on the roof of Strozier Library. And the folks from FSU Emergency Management brought their drones and prepared to film from the air! The students quickly assigned positions and roles, and at 1:00pm, every student in the class took a position on the Green, ready to pass out sheets of poster board!
At 1:45pm, the drone took to the air, a few minutes later, President Thrasher arrived, and suddenly, out of nowhere, at 2:00pm, we had an FSU torch on Landis Green! In true flash mob style, it went from zero to 100 to zero in a matter of minutes… Amazing job by all the students!! Watch a short video clip courtesy FSU Emergency Management! FSU’s College of Communication and Information also assembled a fantastic video montage of the innovation flash mob showing all the students’ hard work coming together.