New Mexico Tech

New Student Orientation

Register now our final New Student Orientation date, August 14.

IMPORTANT UPDATE ON THE FALL 2020 SEMESTER FROM NEW MEXICO TECH PRESIDENT, DR. STEPHEN G. WELLS!

Notice: All times listed below are Mountain Daylight Time

Dear New Techies,

Congratulations once again on being accepted to New Mexico Tech, one of the top STEM universities in the country!

New Mexico Tech's New Student Orientations for summer 2020 are moving online due to COVID-19. The safety and well-being of you, your family, and the entire New Mexico Tech community is always our number one priority. While we will miss seeing you in person, we know you are excited to get started and we are excited to help you transition to NMT. We know that this is not the experience that you thought you would have, but we promise to make the most of it!

As we quickly approach the start of the fall semester, we would like to invite you to sign up for a New Student Orientation date in order to help you get acquainted with New Mexico Tech and all of the wonderful resources that are available to our students. It is required for all new incoming students to attend an orientation, so it is extremely important that you sign up below to attend our final orientation date, August 14.

Students playing giant jenga. Even in this online format, you will be provided with crucial information that will help make your transition to New Mexico Tech smooth and successful. You will learn about many vital resources such as Student Affairs and Career Services, Counseling and Disability Services, the gym and physical recreation, and many more! Many of the student service departments will also be available live for questions the morning of Orientation from 10:00am to 12:00pm. You will even have the opportunity to join our Director of Physical Recreation and Student Activities, Melissa Begay, as she leads a live yoga class to help prepare you for the day!

Most importantly though, this New Student Orientation course serves the primary purposes of connecting you to your academic department, getting academic advising from a faculty member, and registering for your classes in the Fall. You can log into the Canvas event at any time during this event, but please ensure that you log into Canvas during the academic advising portion, from noon to 2 pm, of the New Student Orientation to get the advice you need and the classes that you want.

Secondary purposes are to provide a wealth of information about New Mexico Tech and introduce you to Canvas, which is the learning management software that will contain all of your course content this fall. We're hoping to make this experience as rich or richer than the in-person orientation would have been if not for the COVID-19 outbreak.

The information on our Canvas page is laid out in "modules," or organized blocks of content. On the Canvas page, you will see a hyperlinked version of the agenda below which will allow you to navigate directly to specific parts of the program. You can also click “Modules” on the navigation bar and scroll through content at your own pace.

Student's interacting during a new student social event.

You will have access to these modules all through the summer and into your New Mexico Tech experience. Do not feel as if you have to view all the student and academic services material on orientation day. Feel free to dive in before or after your orientation day to learn more about life at New Mexico Tech and beautiful Socorro.

On the day of your orientation, please join us at 9:30 for the LIVE opening session.

We hope that you are excited to officially become a Techie, and we look forward to welcoming you to our tight-knit community and the endless possibilities that you will be a part of at New Mexico Tech!

New Student Orientation Information and Updates

New Student Orientation Agenda

All times listed are Mountain Daylight Time

Before Orientation

Start watching videos and reviewing modules. Come to orientation with questions!

During Orientation

9:00 AM – 9:30 AM Gentle Yoga for Mental Clarity and Focus (Optional)

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM LIVE Opening Session

Join us for a glimpse of life at New Mexico Tech and a breakdown of the day. Also, chat with NMT staff and faculty before starting your day.

10:00 AM President Wells Welcomes New Students to Tech

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Student and Academic Services Drop-in.

Drop in and visit with representatives from a variety of campus offices and services, including residential life, physical recreation, minority services, and more. You can find a list of all NMT Student Services and contact information for each of those departments here.

The Main Event: Academic Advising

12:00PM – 2:00PM Academic Advising, Registration, and Department Meet and Greet.

Departments will host Zoom meeting rooms where you can meet with your advisors and get registered for Fall 2020! You can also drop in and ask department representatives about classes or programs that interest you.

Questions about registration? Don’t have an advisor? Visit our Registration Help Desk between 12 and 2PM.

After Orientation

Title IX Sexual Misconduct Awareness Training. MANDATORY training must be completed by August 28.

Come back and watch all the videos and complete all the optional quizzes. New students who complete all the quizzes by August 15 will be entered into a drawing for one of 50 fun prizes!

For Additional Questions

Contact the Academic Center for Technology (ACT@nmt.edu) for questions about using Zoom or Canvas.

Contact the registrar with questions about registration or advising (registrar@nmt.edu).

Contact the Office of Student Learning (OSL@nmt.edu) with questions about our Peer Mentor program, or find us on Discord.

Registration and Class Delivery Update

We know that all of you have had questions about New Mexico Tech’s fall 2020 course offerings. We appreciate your patience as we worked out a plan for delivering a mixture of face-to-face and online classes.

We are pleased to inform you that the updated fall 2020 schedule is now live, and registration through Banweb is open!

We will be using four different types of delivery modes: face-to-face, synchronous online, asynchronous online, and “hybrid” (which indicates a class that has both face-to-face and online sections). For a more in-depth explanation of each type of delivery and answers to some frequently asked questions please see our Fall 2020 Course Delivery and Course Identification sheet.

We encourage you to go online to review the revised schedule, and we offer the following recommendations:

If you have not yet registered for your fall classes, please contact your academic advisor to discuss your schedule as soon as possible. We will be giving some priority to seats that open up in face-to-face class to students who register early. So, for example, if there are no seats in a face-to-face section of a hybrid class, please register into the online section. Contact the registrar (registrar@nmt.edu) with additional questions about class availability.
If you have already registered for your fall classes, take a look at the delivery modes of the courses for which you are currently enrolled. Feel free to switch into a different class if, for example, you would prefer more face-to-face or more online courses. If you find that the face-to-face courses that you want are full, keep in mind that there may be some class switching over the coming weeks, and so there are still opportunities. We recommend registering into an online section as you wait for an opening in a face-to-face section. Please communicate with your academic advisor or the registrar staff about your preferences.

Again, we thank you for your patience. We are very happy to have all of you as part of the New Mexico Tech family.

Esports Orientation and Intramural Update

NMT Esports Orientation & Intramurals Fall 2020

August Orientation Esports Tournament

NMT Esports Club is proud to present the Fall 2020 orientation esports tournament. The tournament will be for League of Legends (PC) and Overwatch (PC). To enter the tournament, join the Zoom social on Saturday evening, August 15 (Time TBD). The Zoom social is a chance to get to meet other gamers and for anyone who wants to know more about NMT Esports Club. All those interested in playing will enter their names then randomly combined to create teams. Competition will be completely online. Access to the game as well as internet connection sufficient for competing will be the responsibility of each player. These games will also be broadcast online via Twitch. Any questions can be directed to the NMT Esports Discord Server https://discord.gg/wxzVucF or to damian.banks@student.nmt.edu the Esports Club President.

Intramural Esports

Intramural Esports at NMT will be offered again beginning on September 5th. It will mimic the Spring 2020 intramurals but will extend from September 5th until winter break. These intramurals will include competition across three games: League of Legends, Overwatch, and Rainbow 6 Siege. Competition will be completely online (with given circumstances). Access to the game as well as internet connection sufficient for competing will be the responsibility of each player. Online roster forms need to be completed by team captains and submitted by the first day of competition. Each roster requires a minimum of two NMT students, faculty, or staff. All other players on each roster can be filled by ANYONE willing to compete. Each week over the season, the teams will play against one opposing team. The games will be played at set times and monitored by a moderator. At the end of the season, there will be a double elimination tournament held to determine a Fall 2020 intramural champion. These rosters can be messaged through the NMT Esports Discord server https://discord.gg/wxzVucF or by emailing damian.banks@student.nmt.edu.

Drive-Thru and Walk-Up Check-In for All New and Returning Students (August 12 - 17)

Drive-Thru and Walk-Up Check-In for All New and Returning Students

August 12 - 17, 2020

9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

New Mexico Tech is requiring all students planning to be on campus this fall to check-in prior to the start of face-to-face classes. For more information and check-in instructions, including maps of vehicle and walking traffic flow, please visit our Check-In webpage.