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3000 New Students Engaged At University of Melbourne Orientation!
3000 New Students Engaged At University of Melbourne Orientation!
CLIENT
University of Melbourne
University of Melbourne
START DATE
Monday, July 18, 2022
Monday, July 18, 2022
GAMES PLAYED
CATEGORY
Education
Education
SCALE
500 participants every semester since 2022
500 participants every semester since 2022
⭐️ KEY WINS
⭐️ KEY WINS
Incoming students meet new friends and make meaningful friendships through group challenge activities
University students indicate this is the most effective way of gamifying the way of learning about campus landmarks and facilities
The orientation challenge host, the student event team, received an award as a recognition of the massive success of the Orientation Challenge.
In 2025, it will be Deckle's 6th semester of being the app used for Orientation Challenge
Incoming students meet new friends and make meaningful friendships through group challenge activities
University students indicate this is the most effective way of gamifying the way of learning about campus landmarks and facilities
The orientation challenge host, the student event team, received an award as a recognition of the massive success of the Orientation Challenge.
In 2025, it will be Deckle's 6th semester of being the app used for Orientation Challenge
Incoming students meet new friends and make meaningful friendships through group challenge activities
University students indicate this is the most effective way of gamifying the way of learning about campus landmarks and facilities
The orientation challenge host, the student event team, received an award as a recognition of the massive success of the Orientation Challenge.
In 2025, it will be Deckle's 6th semester of being the app used for Orientation Challenge
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Thank you for making my job look good! How would I describe you guys at Deckle? Awesome. It’s incredible that with Deckle, we are literally building an event for students by students.
Thank you for making my job look good! How would I describe you guys at Deckle? Awesome. It’s incredible that with Deckle, we are literally building an event for students by students.
Caty Li, Student Program Development Team at UniMelb
EVENT SUMMARY
EVENT SUMMARY
Deckle proudly partnered with the University of Melbourne for our highly successful Orientation Challenge, conducted every semester since July of 2022! With consistent participation from 500 students per event, our objective is to foster connections among incoming students and familiarise them with campus facilities.
Most students are nervous and feel like a stranger in new university surroundings, so the university staff (Caty) were very smart in designing the challenges for their students.
Here are some of the tasks:
These tasks were very intentional by design, e.g. the can of coke task was to get students to travel to a lesser-known building, while the group selfie was a starting task to help the newly formed group feel more at ease, and the video task was to get people to respect and admire each other's nationality and culture by showing off their languages.
What did the students think? Let's hear it from the participants themselves!
Deckle proudly partnered with the University of Melbourne for our highly successful Orientation Challenge, conducted every semester since July of 2022! With consistent participation from 500 students per event, our objective is to foster connections among incoming students and familiarise them with campus facilities.
Most students are nervous and feel like a stranger in new university surroundings, so the university staff (Caty) were very smart in designing the challenges for their students.
Here are some of the tasks:
These tasks were very intentional by design, e.g. the can of coke task was to get students to travel to a lesser-known building, while the group selfie was a starting task to help the newly formed group feel more at ease, and the video task was to get people to respect and admire each other's nationality and culture by showing off their languages.
What did the students think? Let's hear it from the participants themselves!
HOW DECKLE MADE IT HAPPEN
HOW DECKLE MADE IT HAPPEN
The event features the innovative Emoji Buddies game, where groups are formed based on unique emojis. After holding up your phone and yelling out your emoji into a crowd, it builds up the atmosphere and gets people walking around and feeling excited! Once they were matched, the group is then directed to a space to play Mates' Trivia, a quiz-form game with AI-generated questions about each other to stimulate conversations among group members. Then finally, the orientation challenge, i.e. the Incredible Race gets going with tasks designed to promote teamwork while guiding students to explore the university campus.
Post-event surveys show the people LOVE the Orientation Challenge, showing that students love taking this distinctive activity-based approach in creating a positive and inclusive university experience.
Check out the student's thoughts on Emoji Buddies and Mates' Trivia!
The event features the innovative Emoji Buddies game, where groups are formed based on unique emojis. After holding up your phone and yelling out your emoji into a crowd, it builds up the atmosphere and gets people walking around and feeling excited! Once they were matched, the group is then directed to a space to play Mates' Trivia, a quiz-form game with AI-generated questions about each other to stimulate conversations among group members. Then finally, the orientation challenge, i.e. the Incredible Race gets going with tasks designed to promote teamwork while guiding students to explore the university campus.
Post-event surveys show the people LOVE the Orientation Challenge, showing that students love taking this distinctive activity-based approach in creating a positive and inclusive university experience.
Check out the student's thoughts on Emoji Buddies and Mates' Trivia!
GALLERY
GALLERY
