NC STATE CHAPTER
A Little Lot More About Us
Our Origins
Started from Penn State
The Clown Nose Club is a young and aspiring club at North Carolina State University and it has one broad message to send to the students and faculty at NC State: people matter.
However, our origins do not begin in Raleigh. They begin in Pennsylvania with a student named Chad Littlefield who founded The Clown Nose Club about five years ago at Pennsylvania State University.
During Chad's freshman year, Cirque du Soleil was promoting a local show by passing out clown noses in Penn State’s central plaza. He put the nose on his face and began walking around campus, saying “Hi” to people and smiling at them.
He noticed that as he did that, people would smile back or they would say ‘Hi’ back or laugh; it would be some kind of positive reaction usually, kind of to brighten their day. And that spurred his thought.
Chad encouraged his friends to help him with the club and the idea took off. Penn State Clown Nose Club is now a big organization that has drawn in hundreds of active members.
Clown Nose Club at NC State
Now we're here
NC State chapter founder Alma Buljina first had the idea of beginning a branch in Raleigh when she went on an alternative spring break trip to the Dominican Republic. During her time there, she was matched up with CNC members, including Littlefield.
It was the energy and happiness that made it hard not to gravitate towards their great ideas and positivity. From the start, Alma felt like Clown Nose Club's ideas could translate to any campus, big or small.
Connections are important
There's no doing it wrong
We engage ourselves in the community through meetings and small events that we host in the public eye.
At club meetings, members are encouraged to be highly interactive with each other. Leaders provide a platform for members to go off of, which usually consists of a wide array of activities and games. These games are simple, yet fun-filled exercises intended to lay the first stone and allow people to enjoy each other interpersonally.
Basically the idea is to have a big, whelping, hopping serving of fun. The idea is to pick a game and have everyone come up and play it. From that point, we extend our reach into the community by planning events around NC State to get others in on the fun.