{"id":23124,"date":"2020-10-22T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=23124"},"modified":"2020-10-27T11:42:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T15:42:26","slug":"iced-using-digital-engagement-platform-motivote-to-educate-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/iced-using-digital-engagement-platform-motivote-to-educate-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"iCED Using Digital Engagement Platform\u2014Motivote\u2014To Educate Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With Election Day less than two weeks away, Miami Dade College is working to increase voter engagement among students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To meet that goal the College\u2019s <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mdc.edu\/main\/iced\/\">Institute for Civic Engagement &amp; Democracy <\/a><\/strong><\/span>partnered with two New York University alumni to offer Motivote, a nonpartisan voter engagement digital platform.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jess Riegal and Rachel Konowitz created the site when they were graduate students at NYU.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt makes the whole process of becoming an informed and educated voter fun,\u201d said iCED\u2019s Collegewide Director Josh Young.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Motivote<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mdc.motivote.us\/registration\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> allows students to complete a series of voting-related tasks<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, such as reading a sample ballot or creating a voter plan. Each task earns the user points that can be redeemed for prizes like Apple Airpods or Amazon gift cards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than 160 students across all eight campuses have joined Motivote since early October. The platform hopes to have more than 1,000 students by Election Day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students or faculty must sign up as a member of a team\u2014they can create a group with friends or join their campus team.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are nine teams listed on MDC\u2019s Motivote site. So far, the Wolfson Campus team is in the lead with 5,288 points and 19 members. Kendall Campus is in second place with 4,313 points and 17 members.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even if students don\u2019t have U.S. citizenship, they can participate. Instead of preparing to vote for the Nov. 3 election, they can rack up points at the prize store and motivate eligible friends to vote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis platform is very inclusive,\u201d Young said. \u201cWe do not want to turn anyone away. We want everyone to participate.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The platform\u2019s team reached out to iCED in 2019 because of MDC\u2019s diversity and campaigns to increase student voting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Young piloted the platform at Hialeah Campus during the general election in 2019, where there were four local races for the city council.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cStudents enjoyed how it made the process of voting social, easy, and fun,\u201d Young said. \u201cMotivote supports our students from registering all the way through casting their vote so it met our goal of helping every MDC student understand why their vote is important and how to navigate the voting process with their friends.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The platform chooses Motivote strategists, who are student leaders to recruit peers and plan what the next tasks and prizes will be. The strategists work at least 10 hours a week, complete a one-hour orientation and training, and attend weekly virtual meetings with the coordinator and other strategists.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019ve been wanting to get civically engaged for a while so Motivote has been the perfect opportunity for me,\u201d said Christopher Yera, who became a Motive strategist at Wolfson Campus two weeks ago. \u201cI have been contacting peers, faculty, and clubs to spread the word about Motivote. I have been posting reminders, and sharing informative posts on my social media to engage with my peers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Heily Rivas, a Motivote strategist at Hialeah Campus, compares the platform to iCED\u2019s Civic Action Scorecard. Both of them encourage students to become civically engaged with a point system. However, points earned with the scorecard can be exchanged for service-learning hours while Motivote\u2019s points can help students win prizes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIf people don\u2019t vote, their beliefs will never translate into policies that can have effects on the community,\u201d Rivas said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Election Day less than two weeks away, Miami Dade College is working to increase voter engagement among students.\u00a0 To meet that goal the College\u2019s Institute for Civic Engagement &amp; Democracy partnered with two New York University alumni to offer Motivote, a nonpartisan voter engagement digital platform.\u00a0 Jess Riegal and Rachel Konowitz created the site 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