Freshman orientation began Thursday at Nazareth College.
Administrators hope a high tech gadget helps students connect with each other faster than ever.
Nazareth is one of two schools in the United States using Poken to quickly connect students and any platform they want to use for social networking.
It all starts with a Poken high five.
“You meet someone else who has a Poken and you touch your Poken to the other person’s Poken and when the hands meet up the little light flashes green and that’s how you know the information has been exchanged,” said Carly Maldonado, Nazareth senior. “We saw it as a really cool way for the freshmen to get together and exchange information easily, especially with orientation. They keep a busy schedule and maybe they don’t have time to be jotting down someone’s name, they’re just meeting someone in passing so they can just say ‘oh here, pull out your Poken’ and exchange information that way.”
At the end of the day students can go to their computer and download all of their new connections. There is also a map that keeps track of connections and where they are from.
