Shown is the Union Con backdrop in the Student Union on the Edinburg campus. Aarykah Navarro/ THE RIDERDiego Gonzalez, an accounting freshman who cosplayed BoJack Horseman, waits for a T-shirt Wednesday at the Union Con event in the Student Union on the Edinburg campus. Aarykah Navarro/ THE RIDERManuel Perez (left), a mechanical engineering sophomore, and Sophia Williams, a history sophomore, use inflatable lightsabers during the inaugural Union Con event Wednesday on the Chapel lawn on the Edinburg campus. Aarykah Navarro/ THE RIDERRenatta Millot (left), a visual communication design sophomore who dressed as Redhood, and Ally Ledezma, a theatre sophomore who dressed as an elf, wait in line during the Union Con event Wednesday in the Student Union on the Edinburg campus. Aarykah Navarro/ THE RIDERViviana Salinas (left), a studio art sophomore who dressed as Momo Ayase from Dandadan, and Sebastian Tamez, a biology senior, wait in line during the Union Con event Wednesday in the Student Union on the Edinburg campus. Aarykah Navarro/ THE RIDERStudents watch and play a Fanbase trivia game during Union Con Wednesday in the Student Union PlainsCapital Bank Theatre on the Edinburg campus. Aarykah Navarro/ THE RIDER
Aarykah Navarro serves as one of photographers for The Rider. She is majoring in Communications with a concentration in broadcasting hoping to become a athletics communications director.