Duty Round Challenge: An activity to enhance attentiveness during duty nights and rounds George Ruscizyk, Student Life Coordinator Lock Haven Staff Lock Haven University Pennsylvania Featured Institution

Description of Activity Lego Mike has gone missing! Your job is to find him as you’re doing your rounds. Every time you find him – you get one point on the Where’s Mike board! (it’ll be the marker board in the office). The prizes for the most points at the end of the semester will be: TBD (Kim and I will take suggestions) Why are we doing this? · To add some fun to duty rounds! · To promote good observation skills while on duty!

Rules of the Activity Rules: 1. You may only find Mike while you’re on Duty 2. Once you find Mike – hide him somewhere in the building that RAs should be looking at during a duty round 3. You may not find Mike again until someone has found him from your hiding spot (Don’t tell others where you hid him) 4. Send Kim and George an that says where you found him and where you hid him for your point! 5. RAs doing rounds together may both get a point but that means that both must wait to find him again until another person hides him. 6. Mike must be visible (no ceiling tiles or anything else like that!) On a side note – I would be very sad to actually lose one of my Lego guys from my shelf so let’s not hide him too hard.

Editor’s note This activity could be adapted to be a part of Behind Closed Doors activities (this could be part of the role playing that happens in common areas) and/or during practice duty nights where seasoned and new staff are paired together.