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Check out past recordings of virtual events and activities! You can also check out recorded New Student Summer Series sessions and Preparing to Transfer and HBCU Virtual Transfer Fair recordings. For questions regarding upcoming events, recordings, or anything Student Life-related, you can email [email protected]

Archived Recordings









New Student Summer Series

Our New Student Summer Series features specialized virtual sessions for our new students including sessions on mental health, successful study habits, being an advocate for yourself, help with financial aid, and much more…

Follow this link to view recordings from sessions over the past few years.

Transfer Events

Every semester, our advising team hosts Preparing to Transfer sessions, and every year, Laurel Ridge and other VCCS schools host an HBCU Virtual Transfer Showcase. Follow the link to check those event recordings AND see upcoming transfer visits and trips.

Showcasing Our Students

Summer Series 2024 Winners: Avery Hammond & Sydney Stachitas

Avery won first place in our Magic & Myth Trivia challenge in June 2024. Sydney was one of twenty-seven new Laurel Ridge students who attended our 2024 Summer Series programs. Every session had a random gift card selection. Sydney’s sugar glider was pretty happy with the winning prize!

Picture of Sydney Stachitas' sugar glider and gift card winnings

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Fall 2023 Trivia winners: Heisy Urrutia & Hannah Sutherly

Showcasing some of our student trivia winners for the fall 2023 semester: Heisy Urrutia, our September winner, and Hannah Sutherly, our December winner. Congrats!

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Celebrating Your Rights Competition 2023 – Josiah Goddard & Kinia Swaby, runners up

Students created poems and songs from their favorite amendments and presented them during a live Zoom call.

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New Student Welcome Day 2023 – Winner, Luke Tessier!

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New Student Summer Series Winners

We randomly selected three students who participated in our New Student Summer Series in summer 2022 to win $100 Visa Gift Cards. Thanks for participating, Jade Purisima (pictured), Brittany Sellers (pictured), and Athena Binibini.

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Virtual Talent Show
Showcasing the many talents of Laurel Ridge’s students. Students, staff, faculty and community are welcome and encouraged to join and vote for their favorite talent at the “live” Zoom event. 1st Place: Matthew Haydu; 2nd Place: Hannah Irvine

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Stay safe, Wear a mask

Students showed off their Laurel Ridge masks as we all continue to social distance in Fall 2020. Pictured: Tomi Ritchie & Samuel Lung

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Diversity, Unity, Equity Art Contest
Students, staff, and faculty participated in a virtual diversity art contest. Chris Parker’s submission won 2nd place in the “Visual Art” category.

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Virtual Domestic Violence Clothesline Project
Students took a stand against domestic violence and designed t-shirts for this project. All submissions were submitted virtually and the Violence Prevention Education Group voting members ranked submissions. See all submissions at laurelridge.edu/prevent. Joseph O’Brien is featured here with his winnings and the winning shirt design.

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Salsa Magic
A Virtual Celebration of Hispanic music

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Virtuaoke!

“Jen – Laurel Ridge’s bravest employee!” “This is awesome! Way to nail it Zoe!”
“OMG! THIS IS SOOO GOOD REBECCA!” “Good job embodying the message of the song!” “You’re all amazing!” “We should do this again!”

1st Place: Rebecca Hoffman (singing Tori Kelly’s “Hallelujah”)

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2nd Place: Zoe Fry (singing Pink’s “Just Give Me a Reason”)

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Virtual Coffeehouse Open Mic
1st Place: Tyler Rock
2nd Place: Danny Mihalek, Jr. & Anya Pywtora

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1st Ever Virtual Concert featuring Isaac Stroupe

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“Beautiful! Very well done.” “AMAZING!”
“You are masterful on the keyboard and a joy to watch!
Thanks for sharing your talent with us!”
“I’m so jealous; what a talent and such dedication!
You are a real pleasure to watch and listen to.”