Image: AI generated / Firefly prompted by Effi Eichstaedt
Collage of different images with small AI-drawn images with bears doing sports.

MAY CHALLENGE of Studierendenwerke

Are we fitter than the others?! But definitely!

We're moving in May! 

We invite all employees of the studierendenWERKs BERLIN warmly invites you to take part in our eventful May Challenge.

What's special: This year we're not just competing within our own studierendenWERKs against each other, but we also challenge others Studierendenwerke out and prove that WE are the most moving of all... 

The idea:

We call on all employees to exercise individually. The mental starting signal is this 1. May (00:01 a.m.) and the finish line is on 31 May 2024 (23:59 p.m.).
Among all participants of the studierendenWERKWe're giving away s BERLIN attractive non-cash prizes (see below).

Danger! This year we are changing the game principle:
Minutes instead of kilometers.  

Move and document the time it took you to do so.
You then submit these minutes of exercise in the online form here. (If it was hours, please convert it to minutes. Please only enter the number.)

You can do this daily or as a weekly total, but you can also submit it for the entire month after the finish (by June 3rd, 9 a.m.). 

All participants have the chance to win ours Special Price, a massager with all the bells and whistles. Up to three individual submissions per person for the special prize will end up in the draw (if you submit more often: great. Your name will still be in the draw a maximum of three times). 

Please provide proof that you were active in May. This can be a selfie of you or a photo from your tracker, a screenshot of your running app or your route (e.g. on Google Maps) or a file where you have written down the date and duration.
Anything that involves movement can be counted: dancing, running, walking, cycling, stand-up paddling, yoga, swimming, stretching - indoors and outdoors.

The minutes submitted are added up per employee and then we're excited to see who turns out to be a real sports ace and gets to climb onto the winner's podium (first place).

An internal interim status will be sent by email in mid-May as to how we compare nationally. We will publish an update here every week. 

On your marks, get set, go!

Submit your contribution here:

I moved.

Free drinking bottle:*:

Data protection*:

There's something to win! 

All employees who submit something will receive this as a thank you Studierendenwerks drinking bottle (because drinking a lot is healthy!). 

You can also order a personal trainer and we will also hand out running shirts while stocks last. Scroll down for more information... 

 

Picture shows drinking bottle with the studierendenWERKs logo on it

Special raffle: A massage gun

Massage gun with various attachments

1st place: TwinRoll, MiniRoll and massage balls

A TwinRoll, a MiniRoll and 2 massage balls

2nd place: Three Thera bands in three different levels of difficulty

Three Thera bands in three different levels of difficulty

3rd place: A point massager and a MiniRoll

A point massager and a MiniRoll

Places 4 - 25: Table tennis bat set

Table tennis bat set

 *The winners will be notified by email in the first week of June.

All employees are eligible to participate studierendenWERKs BERLIN.
Legal recourse is of course excluded. 

In 2024 we will compete against others Studierendenwerke on! 

Image shows a map of Germany showing the challenged Studierendenwerke (Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Frankfurt am Mai, Vorderpfalz, Saarland, Münster, AKAFÖ Bochum).

A total of six others Studierendenwerke have accepted the challenge and are competing against us in the May Challenge national contest. 

 

A big trophy has been awarded. As soon as it turns up again (currently lost in the mail), we will publish a photo here. Of course the cup should stay in Berlin. So give it your all! 

We publish the current score here every Wednesday evening www.studierendenwerke.de/maichallenge as well as on ours Instagram channel.

Picture shows the score as of May 1st. Since it's just starting, everyone currently has zero points

Training camp:

Looking for a personal trainer?

Photo: Finn Persson / stW BERLIN
A stW employee does exercises with a hand expander.

Anyone who needs help with training can request a “personal trainer” (expander) from the management secretariat of their department.

April 26.04th - Info: Dress warden has given everything out - Please use your own outfit.

Don't have the right outfit at home?

Photo: Effi Eichstaedt / stW BERLIN
Man playing table tennis with sports shirt from student WHO:

If you still need the right training outfit, you can request a sports shirt for free here. (While stocks last.)