On Thursday, April 10th at 6 p.m., students gathered in the Bowld gym for a multicultural-themed trivia night hosted by MOSAIC.
The event, rescheduled from April 3rd due to weather, aimed to provide an opportunity for connection and cultural learning through trivia and for students who have not previously attended a MOSAIC event to learn more about the organization.
MOSAIC’s goal is to host events that create opportunities for connection between students and faculty of various cultural backgrounds.
“All of our events are based around the idea that … everyone’s coming from different cultures and backgrounds, and we want to celebrate that, and we want to make people more culturally aware,” Dona Kaci, MOSAIC’s current president and a sophomore double major in psychology and Christian studies, said. “With MOSAIC trivia night, we’re taking that to more of an international level.”
The event’s attendees, all students, competed individually in five categories: language, food, sports, arts and geography. Each 10-question category offered a prize that was related to that section’s content: a LEGO set for the arts category, a basket of multicultural snacks for the food category and a Spikeball set for the sports category, to name a few.
“I enjoy the fact that [MOSAIC] is trying to bring different cultures together,” Hope Bitter said, a senior communication arts major in attendance. “With trivia, you’re also learning new facts about different countries. It’s really fun.”
MOSAIC leadership hopes to continue expanding its reach and increasing the student body’s awareness of MOSAIC’s mission — “diversity in unity”— through events such as trivia night.
“We really are just trying to get more people involved … we want to make people more aware of MOSAIC so they can enjoy more of the events … but also to feel like their culture is recognized,” Kaci said. “Like, they see a question and think, ‘That’s where I’m from!’”
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