Spring Student Vaccination Incentive program announces first week winners

Health & Lifestyle, Students

Mar 11, 2022

Blake Batchelor (Computer Software Development) and Kyndal Gentry (Nursing) are the winners of $250 prize drawing for the first week of the Spring Student Vaccination Incentive Program.

Kyndal (photo at right) said she got the COVID-19 vaccination “to protect myself.”

Blake said his reason for getting vaccinated is “I would rather die from science than from stupidity.”

More than 200 Spring Semester students have entered the Incentive Program since it started on Feb. 23.

Faculty members are encouraged to post information about the Vaccination Incentive Program in your Blackboard course.

Details about the program are available at https://www.cincinnatistate.edu/vax-incentive.
Students can fill out an eForm to enter the weekly prize drawing if they received a COVID-19 vaccine first dose or second dose after Dec. 14, 2021, or received a COVID booster shot anytime.

Filling out the eForm means students are eligible to receive a $25 gift card, and they are immediately entered in the drawing for weekly prizes.
Each Wednesday during Spring Semester 2 weekly prizes of $250 and 10 weekly prizes of $100 are awarded to students entered in the drawing.
A grand prize drawing for $5,000 will take place Apr. 27.

On Mar. 23, an on-campus Clinic open to all students and employees will take place in ATLC 201 from 9 a.m. to noon.

Technicians from Walgreen’s will provide the first and second doses, and booster shots, of the Pfizer vaccine.

For more information about the on-campus Clinic, see the Daily News article published Mar. 8.

Students also may receive the vaccine from any authorized provider and then fill out the eForm to receive a $25 gift card and enter the prize drawing.

Students who received $100 prizes in the Mar. 2 drawing included:

Khina Bhattarai – Practical Nursing Certificate – “I want to prevent spreading Covid-19 virus and save people around me.”
Adriane Brown (below) – Nursing (LPN to RN) – “I got my vaccination to protect myself from Covid.”
Ryan Helms – Accounting – “I am a high risk individual due to my history of asthma attacks, so getting vaccinated to at least reduce the effects of a Covid-19 infection just makes sense.”
Ashley Macy – Practical Nursing Certificate – “I’m vaccinated to protect myself.”
Zenia Perez – Nursing – “Getting vaccinated is the responsible thing to do. I think it’s my duty to look out for neighbors, and getting vaccinated is one way to do so.”

David Schwales (right) – Brewing Sales & Marketing – “I got vaccinated to protect my friends and family.”
Jacky Sonkou Lonkeng – Nursing – “I’m vaccinated to protect myself, my family, and society.”
Rodnice Stokes – Nursing – “I got the vaccination for my immuno-compromised mother.”
Kellie Wilson – Diagnostic Medical Sonography – “I’m vaccinated to protect myself and my family and friends from this awful virus.”