UNF: SWE Bingo Night & Membership Drive

The University of North Florida Section sent in this article about a Bingo Night they held.I think the activity qualifies as a Best Practice, and I hope this inspires a bit of creativity for your section. My apologies for not getting it up any sooner! (By the way: make sure you visit their website!)

Old School Corny Fun Finds Success with a New Generation

As part of our efforts to increase our membership, SWE-UNF held it’s first ever Bingo Night in November. The event was totally free to UNF students and their guests and included food, fun, prizes, and of course, Bingo! We took complete advantage of the full technology suite in the classroom by projecting a Bingo call board and putting music on over the loud speakers. Students and guests had a great time figuring out how to work their bingo daubers and learning how to keep track of five cards at once. Prizes included engineering paper, LEGO sets, Chic-Fil-A meal combo coupons, SWE T-shirts, candy, and UNF Memorabilia. Despite early misgivings that Bingo is a “corny” event, everyone who attended left pleasantly surprised by how much fun they actually had.

The underlying purpose of this event was to encourage students to join SWE. The students who attended were very willing to join. We made lots of new friends and had fun with our old friends too. As a whole we felt the event was a great success and hope to make it a regular event in the future with the help of our sponsors.