Doing OCC “Wright”
If you check our leaderboard often, you may have noticed the same school has been #1 for four straight weeks now. No kidding, Wright State University is doing an amazing job of racking up the points. With an astounding 1,222 members registered and 291,060 points accumulated, they’ve pretty much secured their spot in the Power 100.
But everything they’re doing, you can do too. Here are just a few of the ways WSU has found for racking up mega points.
First of all, they’re milking the partner activities. You get a whopping 2,500 points (that’s like winning two and a half weekly photo contests!) for collaborating with any of ONE’s 150 partner organizations, a lot of which probably have groups on your campus. Plus you get the added benefit of signing up the members of that organization, which is 100 points per sign up. This blog is full of ideas for partner activities, you don’t have to scroll back far to find one.
Plus you can combine a partner activity with another OCC action to maximize your points. For the “Stand Up and Take Action” challenge, WSU partnered with Oxfam International to put on an event called “ONE penny, ONE person, ONE hope,” and got the 2,500 points for submitting a partner project in addition to regular points for challenge reporting (not to mention they were a strong contender for the win!).
WSU also held a film festival with another partner organization, Jubilee 2000. That got them another 2,500 points for a partner event, plus 350 for film-showing, and all those 100-pointers for signing up film festival attendees. Brilliant!
And Wright State has gotten super creative about submitting their own actions. They ONE’d a baby for 100 points (we figured that had to be worth a little more than the 50 you get for ONEing a pet). They got their library to host a display of global poverty-relevant books for 500 points. And they got 187 freshmen to hand-write letters to their Senator as part of freshman orientation — since we give 500 points per letter to congress, that got them an incredible 93,500 points!
We can all learn a lot from WSU’s creativity and initiative. Keep up the good work, Rowdy Raiders!
-Emily Stivers
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