By next fall, students will be rewarded for going to swim meets, wind ensemble concerts, plays and other normally low-participation events.
Student Government is working with the Tiger Card Office to institute the Bengal Bonus Points program, which will give students the opportunity to receive prizes for going to a certain number of events.
“We’re going to swipe people in to concerts, … rugby matches and kind of smaller things that students maybe don’t know about,” said Aimee Simon, chair of the SG Committee on Athletics.
The idea came from the University of Kentucky’s TallyCats program, according to SG Senate Speaker Aaron Caffarel.
Students’ Tiger Cards would be swiped at predetermined events by a device attached to an iPhone or iPad, which would then transfer the students’ data to a spreadsheet, Caffarel said.
Once students have met a certain number of Bengal Bonus Points, their names will go into a drawing for numerous prizes, with the biggest prize being an iPad, Simon said.
The prizes, Tiger Card swiping devices and promotions will cost about $5,000, Caffarel said.
The funding will likely come from the Senate Contingency Account, but could also come from another SG account.
The SG Committee on Finance will make a decision later this semester to approve the money and decide on an account, according to Caffarel.
Simon said she is contacting different campus organizations to see if they would like to apply to turn their events into Bengal Bonus Points events.
“Hopefully [we will] have it in full gear for next semester for sure,” Caffarel said.
 
 
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