The 2008-9 ONE Campus Challenge (OCC) — a friendly competition between college-level global anti-poverty advocates — is going strong. So far, more than 27,000 students representing 2,458 different schools have submitted nearly 45,000 individual actions.

Those actions include holding meetings on issues related to global poverty; collecting petition signatures and making phone calls to Members of Congress; promoting ONE on campus through hanging banners, dressing school mascots in ONE gear, and helping to make global poverty part of school curriculum.

In December, we tallied up the points and narrowed it down to the top 100 schools in the country, and asked each school to send one representative to the Power 100 Summit: three days of training, education, inspiration and fun this weekend, February 6-9.

We will have VIP speakers (including last week’s ABC’s World News Persons of the Week) on a variety of our issues; workshops with ONE staff on topics such as the Obama Administration, New Media, and student organizing; and on Monday, our first ever “Lobby Day” where students will meet with Members of Congress to discuss extreme poverty and preventable diseases.

During the Summit, we will also be announcing the exciting OCC grand prizes for 2009, both for the top school and the top individual action-takers.

Keep an eye on the OCC blog for more updates.

-Emily Stivers