{"id":87736,"date":"2023-09-07T12:16:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T16:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=87736"},"modified":"2023-09-07T16:13:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T20:13:52","slug":"students-invited-to-participate-in-welcome-back-sustainability-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2023\/09\/students-invited-to-participate-in-welcome-back-sustainability-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Students invited to participate in Welcome Back Sustainability Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock\u2019s annual Welcome Back Sustainability Challenge initiative is inviting students to track their sustainable actions for the chance to win one of five prizes.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted in partnership with Blackstone Energy Services, the challenge asks students to log their sustainability actions, such as taking public transportation or using a refillable water bottle, between Monday, Sept. 11 and Friday, Sept. 15 to collect points.<\/p>\n<p>The five students with the most actions logged by the end of the challenge will be entered into a draw to win one of the three Apple products: an Apple iPad, an Apple Watch or Apple AirPods. The two students not chosen in the draw will automatically win a $50 Campus Store gift card. Winners will be announced at 3 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 15.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope the challenge will help students to have a positive impact on the environment by making sustainable habits a part of their daily routines,\u201d says Mary Quintana, Brock\u2019s Director of Asset Management and Utilities.<\/p>\n<p>Students can register to participate until Sunday, Sept. 10 using the free <a href=\"https:\/\/blackstone.joulebug.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blackstone Energy EcoBoss app<\/a>\u00a0available on the Apple App Store or Google Play.<\/p>\n<p>Once the app is downloaded, students will need to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Review and accept the privacy policy once in the app<\/li>\n<li>Create an account using their Brock email and enter Brock\u2019s challenge code:\u00a0badgers<\/li>\n<li>Click the badge icon to join the Brock \u201cWelcome Back Sustainability Challenge\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Hit the green \u201cJoin Challenge\u201d button<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The challenge will begin at midnight on Monday, Sept. 11 and end at noon on Friday, Sept. 15.<\/p>\n<p>Students with questions about the challenge can e-mail\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:sustainability@brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sustainability@brocku.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock\u2019s annual Welcome Back Sustainability Challenge initiative is inviting students to track their sustainable actions for the chance to win one of five prizes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7484,1],"tags":[2456,11955,53,44,11328],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87736"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87749,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87736\/revisions\/87749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}