Winthrop Wins

November 19th, 2007 at 4:39 pm

Last week’s challenge was to create the best visual display to create awareness of ONE’s issues.  We received a large number of very impressive submissions, but we felt that Winthrop University did the best job of creating a display that was effective and inspiring.

They planted 300 flags in the ground along a high-traffic walk way on campus.  Each flag represented 10,000 Tanzanian children who are not in school thanks to debt relief which let Tanzania eliminate school fees.

Congratulations to Winthrop!  They are the lowest ranked school to have won a weekly challenge (previously ranked 50).  It just goes to show you that anyone can take home buckets of points and move up in the rankings. 10,000 points will move them up about 10 spots.

But they aren’t the only ones who are going to be getting points for this last week’s challenge. There were a fair number of schools that did amazing awareness projects, and we are going to give 4 runners up 2,500 points each for their good work.  Make sure to check back here throughout the week to see their great projects and to get some ideas about how you can increase awareness on your campus.