ADVERTISING for attendance at NAQT

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ADVERTISING for attendance at NAQT

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I'm currently in charge of trying to get NAQT started at UCSD. The thing is, we're attempting to reach out to the students more to get them interested. We're going to cater food, have prizes for audience members who get answer correctly, etc.

The biggest aspect that would help with all of this would be really good advertising (flyering, facebook groups, etc). We've been trying to brainstorm some themes for the flyers, but are a little stumped. Our college is divided into 6 sub-colleges named after leading historical academic figures (Eleanor Roosevelt, Thurgood Marshall, Earl Warren, and others). We were thinking of having caricatures of these figures in boxing clothes to encourage the idea of mascots. I was wondering if any other college used similar advertising tactics? Or if possible, does anybody have any good suggestions for themes we could use to get our school more involved? Thanks so much.
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UC-San Diego already has a quizbowl club. Email Auroni gupta about it.
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sgregory wrote:We're going to have prizes for audience members who get answer correctly...We were thinking of having caricatures of these figures in boxing clothes to encourage the idea of mascots.
Do you understand how quizbowl works? Also, contact Auroni like Charlie said.
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sgregory wrote:I'm currently in charge of trying to get NAQT started at UCSD. The thing is, we're attempting to reach out to the students more to get them interested. We're going to cater food, have prizes for audience members who get answer correctly, etc.

The biggest aspect that would help with all of this would be really good advertising (flyering, facebook groups, etc). We've been trying to brainstorm some themes for the flyers, but are a little stumped. Our college is divided into 6 sub-colleges named after leading historical academic figures (Eleanor Roosevelt, Thurgood Marshall, Earl Warren, and others). We were thinking of having caricatures of these figures in boxing clothes to encourage the idea of mascots. I was wondering if any other college used similar advertising tactics? Or if possible, does anybody have any good suggestions for themes we could use to get our school more involved? Thanks so much.
yeah dude, I've already started a club here. If you want to be part of it, email me at auronigupta AT gmail DOT com
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Who is this noted academic figure named "Sixth"?
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Clearly it is a reference to Pope Sixtus.
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