For the Wild Card

March 10th, 2008 at 2:56 pm

While only 10 schools are guaranteed spots in the last round of competition to win the Campus Challenge, there will be one “wild card” school that has a chance to win it all. To clench that coveted spot number 1 spot, you’re going to have to be creative, and thoroughly document your efforts.

Here some ideas of things you might try doing:

• Schedule a visit with your district or state congressional office and bus students en mass to the meeting to show them just how many people in their district care about ending poverty.
• Work with your campus media groups to turn the campus paper, radio, and TV into all poverty education and advocacy programming and content for one day.
• Work with your local congressional office on including the member of Congress’s poverty fighting efforts in the next constituent mailing.
• Visit several local high schools and train students on making calls to Congress.

When you turn in your work, we’ll be looking for:

• A description of your project.
• Your goals in doing this project (be more specific than “ending poverty”).
• Your results.
• Some obstacles that you encountered and how you overcame them.
• A multi-media presentation of your efforts.