Current Events Catch Up Night 3
15 November, 2020
IA Academic Chair, Samantha Zimmerman, hosted another current events catch up night. She created a Kahoot, testing for general knowledge of 6 news stories from around the world that she chose. After the Kahoot, she presented a deeper background into the issues in a PowerPoint. Samantha discussed the hurricanes that keep hitting the Honduras and Nicaragua, specifically how Hurricane Iota is about to hit areas already devastated by Hurricane Eta earlier this month. She also discussed the recent Diwali celebrations in India, the new agreement between Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia about the Nagorno-Karabakh area, Turkmenistan’s newly revealed golden dog statue, the coup in Sudan, and how the unemployment claims in the US are going down, but are still very high. This event relates to IA because it is part of what IA scholars should do: staying up to date on the international news and things that are happening in the world. I really enjoyed this event the first time, so I returned for the third event. I thought these stories were all very interesting and a nice balance of the good and the bad going on at an international scale. The story that was of the most interest to me was the agreement between Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia. My class, Introduction to Intelligence, has been following this story throughout the semester and we have had many discussions about possible outcomes of this conflict. I am not sure whether this agreement will be able to solve this conflict, but I was unaware of this new development and I want to look more into the agreement. This was a nice tie in from my class because I had prior knowledge about this conflict.