{"id":58,"date":"2018-08-23T10:58:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T10:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/slushsg\/?p=58"},"modified":"2018-08-23T10:58:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T10:58:05","slug":"we-are-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/slushsg\/2018\/08\/23\/we-are-on-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"WE ARE ON THE ROAD!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the things that makes Slush so special is that it is a volunteer driven event.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last year Slush Singapore had over 200 volunteers from 22 different countries and<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">this year we got to help with the recruitment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Aada, Annica and Jontte was given the opportunity to go on \u201croadshows\u201d to local universities. The purpose of the roadshows is very simple: recruiting the best volunteers possible. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The task was surprisingly demanding as one had to be very out there and \u201cin your face\u201d. Even though the days on the road were tiring they were a lot of fun, we got to meet a lot of different people and it was great connecting with people who genuinely were interested in Slush and in the different tasks we had to offer. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The days came with a lot of rejection, but the times that we succeeded and got an awesome person to join our awesome team were worth all the cold showers. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All in all the days were a lot of fun and we were happy to do something important for Slush, because without the volunteers the event is impossible to pull off. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-59 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/slushsg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2018\/08\/kelvinanni-169x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/slushsg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2018\/08\/kelvinanni-169x300.jpeg 169w, https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/slushsg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2018\/08\/kelvinanni-768x1365.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/slushsg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2018\/08\/kelvinanni-576x1024.jpeg 576w, https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/slushsg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2018\/08\/kelvinanni.jpeg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/slushsg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2018\/08\/jontteroad-169x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Kelvin, Annica and Jontte chatting with potential volunteers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-61 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/slushsg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2018\/08\/2018-08-23-18.40.30-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/slushsg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2018\/08\/2018-08-23-18.40.30-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/slushsg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2018\/08\/2018-08-23-18.40.30-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/slushsg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2018\/08\/2018-08-23-18.40.30-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/slushsg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2018\/08\/2018-08-23-18.40.30.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that makes Slush so special is that it is a volunteer driven event.\u00a0Last year Slush Singapore had over 200 volunteers from 22 different countries and this year we got to help with the recruitment. Aada, Annica and Jontte was given the opportunity to go on \u201croadshows\u201d to local universities. The purpose &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/slushsg\/2018\/08\/23\/we-are-on-the-road\/\" class=\"more-link\">Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201dWE ARE ON THE ROAD!\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/slushsg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/slushsg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/slushsg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/slushsg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/slushsg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/slushsg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/slushsg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/slushsg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/slushsg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/slushsg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}