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Field Trips / Open Houses

If your campus has interesting sustainability projects going on, a great event for your competition is to have an open house or field trip to the project.  Students can earn points for their dorm or win door prizes for attending the event.
You can also organize field trips to things that aren’t necessarily shining sustainability projects.  [...]

February 27, 2008   Posted in: Additional Event Ideas  No Comments

Scavenger Hunt

For years Environmental Alliance has talked about running an eco-scavenger hunt as part of the Eco-Olympics.  The idea would be to have teams from the dorms compete to find sustainability related places and things on campus.  For example, the winning team would be the first ones to return with digital photos of themselves standing in [...]

October 26, 2007   Posted in: Additional Event Ideas  No Comments

1. Introduction
2. Preparation Segments
   1. Overview
   2. Choosing & Scheduling Events
   3. Fundraising
   4. Prizes
   5. Partnering with other Departments
   6. Preparing the Website
   7. Motivating Participation!
   8. Best Motivator Award
   9. Scoring
3. During the Competition Segments
   1. Kickoff & Lightbulb Exchange
   2. Online Impact Survey
   3. Eco-Trivia
   4. Garbology / Recycling
   5. Zero-Energy Pledge
   6. Eco-Film Series
   7. Water
   8. Energy
4. Wrapping Up
5. Candid Student Interviews