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Unify America Challenge: Students

This Libguide is dedicated to the Unify America Challenge College Bowl, a face-to-face video conversation between two students who attend different schools and may vote differently, live in different geographies, or have different life experiences.

How to Participate

  1. Sign up for the challenge at unifyamerica.org/collegebowl/mdc - please sign up with your MDC student email (mymdc.net) so a report can more easily be sent to your professor if you are doing the challenge for class credit. If you can't find your professor's name or are doing the challenge on your own, just select "None of the Above." 
  2. Review the Student Instructions Flyer. 
  3. Watch the two videos on the About Tab. 
  4. Review Student Tips and Tricks. 
  5. Review the College Bowl Norm Setting and FAQs.
  6. The schedule for the Unify America Challenge for Spring 2025 is below. It will take place 14 times over seven days in February & March:   
  • Tuesday, February 25: 2 pm or 5 pm
  • Wednesday, February 26: 5 pm or 8 pm
  • Thursday, February 27: 2 pm or 5 pm
  • Tuesday, March 4: 5 pm or 8 pm
  • Wednesday, March 5: 2 pm or 5 pm 
  • Thursday, March 6: 5 pm or 8 pm
  • Wednesday, March 12: 2 pm or 5 pm  

7. CHECK YOUR SPAM/JUNK FOLDERS - all correspondence will be from "unifyamerica.org" -- generally from "events@unifyamerica.org" 

Remember - you must do the Challenge on a desktop or laptop computer, it will not work on your phone or on a tablet. 

IF YOU ARE STUCK OR HAVE QUESTIONS - EMAIL events@unifyamerica.org 

8. EARN 10 POINTS ON THE CIVIC ACTION SCORECARD! - Participating in the Unify America College Bowl is worth 10 points (see item CW-10 found here in the Changemaker Hub). You must log into the Changemaker Hub and answer three reflection prompts to earn 10 points towards the Civic Action Award. Instructions on how to add a Scorecard action into the Hub are found here in the Documents  section of the Hub (Open: “Adding Impacts Master_Sept 2023.docx” and see Section E. “How to Add Civic Actions on the Changemaker Hub”). 

Questions, review the FAQs Tab here. Still have questions, email events@unifyamerica.org, speak to your professor, or your campus’ iCED office, or email iced@mdc.edu.