During the 2018 Fall GWU organization fair, hundreds of students have showed their passion and interest to join CDSTT. Many students submitted their resumes to the organization during the fair, and this made CDSTT one of the most active and popular organizations in the organization fair.
The first fall General Body Meeting was held after new memvers had joined CDSTT. Leaders of representative CDSTT department introduced general information about CDSTT to all new members during the meeting. The founder and president of CDSTT -GWU Chapter, Meilin Lyu first thanked all the attendants and introduced the inspiring story of the founding process of GWU CDSTT. She later explained that CDSTT is composed of two pillars: the first one being humanism, and the second one being rationalism, meaning human as end and knowledge as mean. She also stressed that the major goal of CDSTT is to combine intellectual engagements with student life, forming a friendly environment for all students as GWU.
The vice president Yayuan Wang later introduced the structure of CDSTT. She also invited members from different departments to share their experiences at CDSTT. Meanwhile, the leader of the development committee Yang Xi introduced events CDSTT has hosted in the past semester such as academic panels and MBTI testing. At the end of the meeting, the directors of CDSTT’s four departments sat along with the remaining students, offering them one on one communication for questions and further explanations.