CMU Student Organizations
Students have the opportunity to get involved in a wide variety of extracurricular activities during their time at Carnegie Mellon. For sophomores and juniors, these years are an excellent time to explore a passion or try something completely new. In doing so, they can gain or fine-tune skills, take on a leadership role and continue to build strong connections with their communities at CMU.
Carnegie Mellon is home to 300+ student-run organizations, spanning a variety of interests and includes Greek Life. Student organizations contributes to a robust and dynamic CMU experience and helps to make positive change on campus, in Pittsburgh or globally. Most of these groups have found innovative and creative ways to advance their missions during the current pandemic, and provide opportunities that are accessible to students from wherever they are studying, in Pittsburgh or remotely.
Students looking to explore the variety of student organizations at CMU can visit The Bridge, our online organization portal and calendar.
Virtual Spring Carnival 2020
Spring Carnival, CMU's most revered tradition, went virtual in 2020. Tartans around the world came together for contests, web events, live stream Buggy races and talent competitions. Buggy, also known as Sweepstakes, is a student organization and competition where teams design, build and race aerodynamic pushcarts as part of Spring Carnival Weekend.
The artwork in this story was done by Yuchen Dai (E 2023) as part of the Design Your Own Buggy competition for virtual Carnival. Yuchen was the Grand Prize Winner!