Our Education Slice

Our Campus We are an all women’s college located in Chambersburg, Pa. NCAA Div. III 85 Athletes We currently have 6 sports.

Our Project The Apple Team at our last APPLE Conference decided we wanted to do something different for our mandatory athlete alcohol education. We decided that a student led Jeopardy game would be a fun and different way of educating about alcohol as well as going over all of our alcohol policies both school wide and in the athletics department. This gave us the opportunity as an APPLE Team to be more involved and to take on leadership roles.

The Jeopardy Game The Jeopardy game was made on a board that was downloaded into power point. The categories included Alcohol and Drug policies, statistics about alcohol use, information on the Gordie Center and other foundations, the effects alcohol has on women, drink alcohol content, alcohol safety and more. It consisted of two complete boards and took just under 2 hours with an intermission of 30 minutes with healthy snacks (Apples!).

The APPLE Model The APPLE model helped us construct this project by looking over the materials in the education apple slice. There were also many speakers at the last conference that helped bring us to the idea of Jeopardy. The APPLE model went over peer education and how important it can be. Since our campus is small the peer education allowed us to reach the whole athletics department in one setting.

Student Involvement The APPLE team created and led the Jeopardy game with the assistance of our advisor. Everyone contributed topics and ideas we wanted to cover. We met several times throughout the end of the previous year and during the beginning of the fall semester to complete the task. The athletes that were required to attend (It was mandatory!) were also participating and involved because the Jeopardy game was interactive and each student was required to discuss and answer the questions.

The tools we needed The Jeopardy board was a very important part of the process and was found online at pardy.ppt We also needed a set of clickers or buzzers. We used some that a professor lent us called Eggspert. A large screen with a room large enough to sit all the students easily for the activity was tricky but was done in our large auditorium.

Resources We used many of the resources that the APPLE conference gave us for information that we used in the questions

How did we gain administrative support? With the administration at both the last conference and when we returned from our conference we discussed the pros and cons of a speaker or video vs. the peer education. We used the fact that we got good feedback from the small peer education we did last year and that we believed as students that listening to your peers was more effective.

Evaluation We asked the athletes after the fact what they thought of the game. We also asked two questions on an APPLE team survey that was returned anonymously. We had a 29% return rate on the survey. Out of the surveys returned 72% liked the game, 17% were on the fence and only 11% expressed that they did not like the activity.

What could we have done differently? The athletes seemed to get bored after the first board of Jeopardy, so it may have been in our best interest to have two different activities. We also could have involved more action activities. We had a member of each team try to pour exactly one ounce of water (an activity that was done at the conference last year) as a daily double. We could have also had a handout for them to take at the end with some information for them to think about. There wasn’t a really good closing.

What should other schools know? This is a low cost activity but an intense project for the team. You have to have access to a room that can not only fit the students but allow them to group into teams without being too spread out or too crowded. The board is another key point and technical difficulties were a hard part of the project due to different versions of Microsoft Office on different computers. Teamwork is essential to get this project done!

Thank You! Wilson Apple Team Colleen O’Reilly Hannah DeMoss Alyssa Bernard Caileigh Oliver Advisors: Tracy Randall-Loose Cindy Shoemaker