It’s been decided to go ahead with a Week of the Geek 2018. It will be the week of 12^th – 16^th March 2018 and we will be supported by Student Services.

We have some awesome volunteers already on the team and need a couple more folk to help out to make it really pop. If you’d love to be involved but you’re worried about workload read on.

We thought it might help to demystify “The Week”, and to offer an early break-down of the events you could volunteer for.

First: What actually is a Geek?

According to the hippest online dictionary around www.urbandictionary.com
Geeks are:

1. The people you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult. “The geeky kid now owns a million dollar software company”.
2. Not to be confused with Nerd. A geek does not have to be smart, a geek is someone who is generally not athletic, and enjoys video games, comic books, being on the internet, etc…

N.B. We do not condone picking-on in any form and like to think that in the Library we don’t employ folk who pick-on anyone either, so perhaps rather think not-the-high-school-in-crowd.

The group have come up with these events for “The Week” –

• Code Cracker – whole of week activity. A quest to find clues and crack a code – might have elements of amazing race.
• Puppy Love – following on from last year’s very popular dog’s day out in the Library.
• Games – again well received last year. Back by popular demand.
• A Quiz – turn up on the day – might use kahoot.
• A Rec Centre led exercise class. Nothing sweaty rather think relaxation or stretching.

If you think you could help with any of these activities, even just a little bit, have a chat with your manager and let Lyndsay know that you’d like to volunteer and what it is your contribution might be.