First group of prize winners announced for Student Vax Incentive Program

Brandie Woods is the winner of the first $1,000 prize drawing in the Student Vaccination Incentive Program.

Brandie, a Pre-Business Administration student, received her check on Oct. 6 from Shane Winslow, President of the Cincinnati State Student Government Association.

Brandie said she got the COVID-19 vaccination to protect her own health and “for my grandchildren who can’t get the vaccine yet.”

More than 480 Fall Semester students have entered the Incentive Program as of Oct. 8, and 18 students have reported receiving their initial dose of the vaccine since the Incentive Program started on Sep. 29.

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

• Details about the program, including how to enter, receive gift cards, and qualify for the weekly prize drawing, are available at https://www.cincinnatistate.edu/vax-incentive.
   
• Fully vaccinated students fill out an eForm to enter the prize drawing. (The form is viewable only to students who are logged into MyCState/MyServices.)
• Each Wednesday during Fall Semester, 10 prizes of $100 and 1 prize of $1,000 are awarded to students entered into the drawing.
• A grand prize drawing for $10,000 will take place Dec. 15.
• Another on-campus clinic is being scheduled, where technicians from Walgreen’s will provide the first or second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
• Students also may receive the vaccine from any authorized provider and bring their vaccination card to Clifton or Middletown campus to receive a $25 gift card. 
• Plans for an Employee Vaccination Incentive Program are in development and details will be announced soon.

Students who received $100 prizes in the Oct. 6 drawing included:

Adam Bradberry (photo at right) – Interpreter Training – “If you don’t get it for yourself, get it for the elderly.”

Jeremiah Carter – Finance
 
Nirasha Chapman – Associate of Arts
 
Rachel Charlton Willmarth – Nursing – “As a wife, a mother of 3 boys, a medical assistant working in a pediatric office, and a nursing student, it’s important to me to do my part in protecting everyone I can.”
 
Tegan Chitwood – Nursing – “I wanted to set an example for my daughter to be the change that the world needs!”
 
Alexandra Luttrell – Respiratory Care – “I got vaccinated to protect my grandma, my parents, my nephew, and a friend’s child.”

Matthew Price (on right in photo) – Civil Engineering Technology – “I did it to protect my mother, who has medical issues.”
 
Victoria Robinson – Practical Nursing – “I got the vaccine because my job mandated it.”
 
Katya Roman – Multimedia & Web Design – “Keeping the world safe, one vaccine at a time.”
 
Jordan Young (photo below) – Associate of Arts – “I’m protecting myself and my friends and family from COVID-19.”