UIdea

Congratulations go to Interactive Arts & Entertainment for winning the juried component to this competition.  Our panel of judges selected this project for its clear goals, focus, and strategies for success.

Here is the order of the teams for both awards:

Popular Vote

1. Hawkeye Gladiators
2. WoW Dance Party!
3. UI Battle of the Bands
4. Interactive Arts & Entertainment
5. Iowa River Festival
6. Dorm Challenge

Juried Panel

1. Interactive Arts & Entertainment
2. WoW Dance Party!
3. UI Battle of the Bands
4. Dorm Challenge
5. Hawkeye Gladiators
6. Iowa River Festival

Congratulations go to the Hawkeye Gladiators, who earned 519 votes in our final round of voting.  The team set a personal goal of 500 votes in just two weeks, and they exceeded it!

The winners of the judges’ panel will be announced shortly.

Thank you, everyone, for participating in this class project.  The six finalist teams logged over 1,000 votes over the past two weeks.  We will announce the winners of both the popular vote and the judges’ panel on Thursday, April 10th.

David McGraw

We are pleased to announce the finalists for the 2008 UIdea event plan competition.

Dorm Challenge

Hawkeye Gladiators

Interactive Arts & Entertainment

Iowa River Festival

UI Battle of the Bands

WoW Dance Party

Please examine their proposals and then click on the “Vote” button to cast your ballot!

UIdea is an event planning competition sponsored by the Department of Interdepartmental Studies at the University of Iowa. The competition is between the students of two courses: 169:150 Recreation Administration and 188:111 New Ventures in the Arts. The students have the task of creating an event for the University of Iowa’s Welcome Week, a celebration held at the beginning of each academic year to welcome new students and to give returning students to meet with old friends. Welcome Week events are held throughout the campus, but for the purposes of this competition, teams created events that could be held inside or on the grounds of the Iowa Memorial Union. Teams could choose the day and time of the event. The only requirements are that all events

1. Serve the mission and spirit of Welcome Week
2. Attract a crowd of at least 100 students
3. Be financially viable. Due to some information about potential donors and funding, we have not listed the budgets on this website, but students presented their financial research in class.

Voting will be conducted on a pop-up window, so please allow your browser to accept browsers and cookies. Each person may vote once per day. In this first round, you may vote for one arts management and one recreation management project per day. We reserve the right to nullify any votes that appear to be fraudulent. Since this competition is a class project at the University of Iowa, any teams caught cheating will face the disciplinary measures outlined in the UI student handbook.