MCLAIN STATE PARK – At least 180 Michigan Technological University student organizations were on hand for K-Day at McLain State Park Friday to get the word out about their activities.

“It’s a perfect way to learn how you can get involved while you’re at Michigan Tech,” said Rochelle Spencer, coordinator of student activities at Tech. “We have athletics, we have Greek life, we have Enterprise, we have robots.”

About 3,000 to 4,000 students attend the annual event each year at McLain State Park, Spencer said.

Groups took a variety of approaches to bringing students to their booth, ranging from cotton candy to attractions such as disc golf.

The Green Campus Enterprise group had a white board on which students could write down suggestions for making the campus greener, in honor of Sustainability month. They could also play tic-tac-toe by tossing frisbees at a sheet on the ground.

“The winners get free stuff,” said Green Campus co-president Madison Olmstead. “The losers get free stuff.”

There’s typically been about a dozen people in the club, Olmstead said.

“They don’t have to join Enterprise for credit – it’s something they can do for fun, if they’re interested in sustainability on campus,” she said.

Some sporting clubs offered people the chance to try the sport out for themselves.

Perhaps the biggest sports club on campus, broomball, had a cage where people could try shooting the ball into a goal – or in club web developer Nick Fisher’s case, taking baseball-style swings. They could also sign up for the club’s email list.

“It’s really just to talk to the first-years, especially with broomball, because most of them don’t know about it,” Fisher said. “It’s fun for us, too. We just shoot the ball around and have a good time.”

Ethan Machida, a first-year civics engineering major, was intrigued by the rowing and sailing clubs, as well as the one for game development.

“”There’s a lot more than I expected,” he said. “I hear there’s 240-plus around here, but I didn’t imagine it being this big. And there’s a wide diversity.”

Justin Harstvedt, a software engineering freshman, had just picked up a stick of cotton candy from Career Ambassadors. He was most excited about lacrosse, although he’d also enjoyed the Army ROTC booth.

“I was able to do 50 pushups and they gave me a prize,” he said.

Also meeting the pushup goal was Chance Hart, a first-year material science major. Though there as a member of MTU’s rugby club, he was also looking at other booths.

“There’s so much here, I’m sure by the end of the day I’ll find something,” he said.