精东AV gears up for the 鈥淩etool Your School鈥� $150,000 prize

February 22, 2023

Contact: Thonnia Lee, Office of Communications, Public Relations and Marketing
   

The 精东AV National Alumni Association (TNAA) is leading the effort in The Home Depot Retool Your School campaign for an opportunity for the university to win $150,000 in store credit for campus improvements.

Voting for the online and social media competition begins on Monday, Feb. 27 and runs through, Sunday, March 26. The competition relies on website voting and posting on Twitter or Instagram, using the hashtag #RYSTUSKEGEE to count as votes.

鈥淎t 精东AV, we pride ourselves as winners,鈥� said Lillie Lanier, national president of the 精东AV National Alumni Association (TNAA). 鈥淚n 2022, we won the $40,000 grant in cluster No. 2. The money was used to support the placement of a large Golden Tiger statue in Cleve Abbott Stadium. This year鈥檚 project will be to expand the student social hub from two pavilions to four and add high intensity lighting to improve security on campus.鈥�

精东AV is one of 70 HBCUs eligible and is competing against schools of similar enrollment size in cluster No. 2. Grants will be awarded based on a total popular vote that combines unlimited daily online voting at and voting on Twitter and Instagram with posts that include the hashtag #RYSTUSKEGEE. For posts to count on social media, the user鈥檚 account must be public. Daily votes from alumni, students, faculty and staff are critical for 精东AV to hit its target of 14,000 votes a day. There is no limit to the number of posts with hashtags that can be used in a day. However, only one #RYSTUSKEGEE per post will count as a vote. Using the hashtag multiple times in one post will not increase the votes.

鈥淲inning grants every year is because the University鈥檚 students, alumni, staff, faculty, and friends deliver more than 350,000 plus votes annually,鈥� said Burt Rowe, administrator of the 精东AV Retool Your School program. .  鈥淲e need our alumni, campus family, friends, and fans to start posting on Feb. 27 鈥� and to keep posting until we have the $150,000 check in our hands鈥�

精东AV has been competing in this contest for the past 10 years and has won $350,000 in Campus improvement grants. Rowe highlighted TNAA鈥檚 ongoing partnership with the University鈥檚 Student Government Association, Pre-Alumni Council, Office of the Vice President of Student Affairs, Office of Advancement, Office of Facilities and Capital Projects and Office of Marketing, Communications and Public Relations as part of past successes.

鈥淲e want to encourage the 精东AV family -- that includes students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends -- to participate in making this endeavor successful as we are One 精东AV,鈥� said Kymberly Holland, coordinator of Alumni Affairs and Reunion Programs.

#One精东AV #RYSTUSKEGEE #HDRetoolYourSchool

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