Are we fitter than the others?! But definitely!
We invite all employees of the studierendenWERKs BERLIN warmly invites you to take part in our eventful May Challenge.
What's special: This year we're not just competing within our own studierendenWERKs against each other, but we also challenge others Studierendenwerke out and prove that WE are the most moving of all...
The idea:
We call on all employees to exercise individually. The mental starting signal is this 1. May (00:01 a.m.) and the finish line is on 31 May 2024 (23:59 p.m.).
Among all participants of the studierendenWERKWe're giving away s BERLIN attractive non-cash prizes (see below).
Danger! This year we are changing the game principle:
Minutes instead of kilometers.
Move and document the time it took you to do so.
You then submit these minutes of exercise in the online form here. (If it was hours, please convert it to minutes. Please only enter the number.)
You can do this daily or as a weekly total, but you can also submit it for the entire month after the finish (by June 3rd, 9 a.m.).
All participants have the chance to win ours Special Price, a massager with all the bells and whistles. Up to three individual submissions per person for the special prize will end up in the draw (if you submit more often: great. Your name will still be in the draw a maximum of three times).
Please provide proof that you were active in May. This can be a selfie of you or a photo from your tracker, a screenshot of your running app or your route (e.g. on Google Maps) or a file where you have written down the date and duration.
Anything that involves movement can be counted: dancing, running, walking, cycling, stand-up paddling, yoga, swimming, stretching - indoors and outdoors.
The minutes submitted are added up per employee and then we're excited to see who turns out to be a real sports ace and gets to climb onto the winner's podium (first place).
An internal interim status will be sent by email in mid-May as to how we compare nationally. We will publish an update here every week.
On your marks, get set, go!
All employees who submit something will receive this as a thank you Studierendenwerks drinking bottle (because drinking a lot is healthy!).
You can also order a personal trainer and we will also hand out running shirts while stocks last. Scroll down for more information...
*The winners will be notified by email in the first week of June.
All employees are eligible to participate studierendenWERKs BERLIN.
Legal recourse is of course excluded.
A total of six others Studierendenwerke have accepted the challenge and are competing against us in the May Challenge national contest.
A big trophy has been awarded. As soon as it turns up again (currently lost in the mail), we will publish a photo here. Of course the cup should stay in Berlin. So give it your all!
We publish the current score here every Wednesday evening www.studierendenwerke.de/maichallenge as well as on ours Instagram channel.
Vorderpfalz: On doping control!
We could have imagined that the bicycle city would do a good job at first: With around 11.500 minutes of exercise, the Münster Student Union was the first to report and was therefore, at least for a short time, the stage winner of the hearts - until the other reports came in.
Frankfurt am Main managed a sensational 13.700 minutes, Hamburg seems to have chased all employees around the Outer Alster: a fantastic 27.310 minutes! And we almost gave Hamburg the win of the week, as a small Gallic village.... Sorry: that Studierendenwerk Vorderpfalz sparked for over 8.000 minutes!
Because it's the quotient that counts: The Vorderpfalz has fewer minutes than Frankfurt, Hamburg or Münster, but will clearly be in the pool position on May 08th due to its comparatively small number of employees. The minutes are always divided by the number of employees per plant in order to measure the level of sportiness of the entire organization.
A stage victory for the Vorderpfalz. For the time being, mind you, because the Berlin Challenge Committee is still discussing whether we are really prepared to recognize “bringing the wine glass to the mouth” as a movement... ;-) This resentment may of course be due to the Berlin result. Because the challenger is initially at a disadvantage in week 1: Im studierendenWERK Rugby was played, climbing and even hiking to Brandenburg (to Brandenburg!), but it was still only enough for a place at the back of the stage. The strategy here is certainly to lull the opponents into a false sense of security until, at the end of the month, the tables are turned again by those employees who only submit everything from May once, at the end and then immediately.
Needless to explain that this may also be the plan of the AKAFÖ and the Schleswig Holsteiner, because in both StudierendenwerkEveryone is already secretly working on winning the final, that should be clear to everyone.
The May Challenge week really got going in week 1.
We look forward to May 15th, when the next interim status will be reported. It remains exciting!
Anyone who needs help with training can request a “personal trainer” (expander) from the management secretariat of their department.
If you still need the right training outfit, you can request a sports shirt for free here. (While stocks last.)
