Final Current Event Night
5 April, 2021
IA Academic Chair, Samantha Zimmerman, hosted another current events catch up night. She created a Kahoot, testing for general knowledge of 5 news stories from around the world that she chose, but chose other news stories to provide deeper detail about in a PowerPoint after the Kahoot. In the PowerPoint, Samantha discussed Miss Grand Myanmar’s speech against the military in Myanmar in the middle of nationwide protests. She also discussed the court battle between the company, Oracle, and Google which made its way to the Supreme Court where the Court ruled in favor of Google. Other events included The Weeknd’s $1 million donation to Ethiopians in Tigray, an agreement signed between world leaders addressing future plans for any more pandemics, and the Twitter argument between a U.S. Representative and the president of El Salvador regarding tweets about the border. This event was related to the International Affairs scholars program because it involved looking at news stories from around the world and getting a sense of what is happening worldwide. This was a great way for me to be caught up on what is happening around the world as I have not been paying much attention to the news lately and I feel even more informed due to the change in the amount of stories covered. There was not a lot of intersection with my course work this semester, but the story of what is happening in Tigray reminds me of a group that I studied in the beginning of the semester, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. As always, this was a good way to get sped up on what is happening on a national stage.