3rd Annual Albertus Got Talent

This past Wednesday, we held our third annual Albertus Got Talent located in the BCR of the campus center!!  This event was through the roof with excitement.  There were so many people that attended; being on SGA I have seen many events have poor attendance but this one had at least 200 people in attendance!  We had Jason LeVasseur, a singer come in and he hosted the show.  Jason has come to Albertus in the past and we thought it'd be pretty fun to have him host the show, sing some songs, and introduce our acts!  The audience really took a liking to him- he sang some of his own original songs as well as covers and the audience got into it.  We had 10 performing acts over all.  There were singers, contemporary dancers, a mime/comedian act, a drummer, a slam poet, dancers, and even sign language to a song.  I can honestly say that I think everyone did a great job.  I give them a lot of credit going up in front of so many people and performing their talent. We had 3 judges:  Pedro Suncar, who is an alum of the college as well as the Graduate Intern for Residential Life and an Assistant Hall Director, Stefanie Seslar who works in Alumni office, and Stefanie's husband.  The three judges helped decide who the winner would be, however at the end of the show, students were allowed to tweet at @Albertus_Talent and tweet the number of the act that they wanted to win!  It was something different, many students participated in the tweeting action and I think it definitely helped with deciding who the top 3 winners would be.  We even had different contests going on throughout the show.  At one point, we had a dance battle with 4 girls, and who ever danced the best, won money.  The audience decided on who the winner would be.  We also had a rap battle between this girl Amber and a boy named Tre.  It was so funny to see them rapping against each other and Amber actually ended up winning.  My favorite act was the last one, a group of dancers who danced to a mix of different songs.  It seemed like the audience loved them- their dance was at least 10 minutes long.  In third place came Erin Boyd, who is an RA and performed a song.  Second place went to Rob Augustine who performed poetry that he created himself.  The first place winner was the last act, the dancers!

Amber and Tre rapping against each other

Jason LeVasseur performing a song