2. Vision and Mission Statement
“The vision is to see our Dragon Pride spill over from our
campus into the homes and businesses of Moorhead.
Dragon Pride seeks to transform our campus by
reestablishing old traditions, inventing new traditions and
creating an interactive, fun and celebratory environment
that is inviting to all students, staff, faculty, and alumni and
Moorhead community”; and, “DragonFrost seeks to build
community and DragonPride at MSUM through events and
activities.”
3. What is it?
What is DragonFrost?
Dragon Frost is a week of activities in February for the MSUM
community to have some fun and chase away the winter blahs. It is an
event that is organized by the Homecoming/DragonFrost committee.
4. Schedule of events
Monday, February 3
Bone Marrow Registry Drive - CMU Ballroom
6-8pm
Winter Survival Grocery Bag Bingo (Dragon Entertainment Group & RHA) -
CMU Ballroom
8 pm
Tuesday, February 4
Volunteer & Service Fair (Office of Student Activities) - CMU Ballroom
10am-2pm
5. Schedule con.
Soup feed - CMU Ballroom
11am - 1pm
Wednesday, February 5
Ice Cream Social (Comstock Memorial Union) - CMU Main Lounge
3:00pm
Jared Sherlock, Illusionist (Dragon Entertainment Group) - Hansen Theatre
7:30pm
Free for MSUM students, $5 general admission
6. Schedule con.
Thursday, February 6
Residence Hall Challenge - Snow Fort Building contest (RHA)
Bone Marrow Registry, CMU Ballroom
5-9pm
Education Speakers Panel, including Sandy Schob, Dr. Denise Snow
(Hematology & Medical Oncology), Vinod Lall (Bone Marrow Donor) Rita Lall
(partner of donor & Hendrix Psychologist) & Rachel Smart (seeking a bone
marrow donor)
CMU Ballroom, 7pm
7. Schedule con.
Battleship (Intramurals) - Nemzek Pool
9pm
Friday, February 7
Office Decorating Judging - Campus wide
starting at noon
Pizza Party - Nemzek Fieldhouse
5:30pm
Go Pink Silent Auction - Nemzek
5:30pm
8. Schedule con.
Go Pink/Orange with Dragons - Acro Lites & Acro II teams performing at half
times, Games Galore inflatable games
Women's Basketball vs. St. Cloud State- Nemzek
6:00pm
Men's Basketball vs. St. Cloud State- Nemzek
8:00pm
Royalty Coronation - Nemzek
Immediately following the Men's game
10. Financial Goals
$3,000- through student fees & Student
Activities Budget Committee
Dragon Frost is Co-sponsored with Intramurals, in
order to generate more money.
Goal Get rid of the winter Blues!
11. Goodwill
There are fundraising efforts through a penny drive and fun run that
raises money for the Go Pink scholarships. These scholarships benefit
students and student athletes whose lives have been impacted by
cancer.
12. Communication Process
Pick a date.
Communicate (meetings, call, email, txt,
whatever) amongst stakeholders and
sponsors of the events.
*Monday meetings.
No checklist! Activities are simple.
*Meetings would take place every Monday at 3:30, with the Dragon’s After Dark committee.
13. Communication Process con.
The communication process occurs at multiple
levels in the planning process. There’s a student
staff team that works with various offices and
departments on campus to co-sponsor events.
These staff also work with a volunteer
committees to promote and plan events. The
communication is conducted via social media,
email, phone calls, and/or face to face meetings.
15. Marketing
The marketing is of social media (facebook &
twitter), posters, floor graphics, digital signs. All
are designed by a student graphic designer,
who is part of the planning group.
16. Food and Beverage
A soup feed, ice cream, sugar cookies, and pizza are
all offered.
17. Logistics, Technology and Crisis Plan
There are contracts for the Mentalist, Ski trip and all
speakers at the Leadership conference. MnSCU requires
that MSUM has a contract, for any performer that contains
$2 million in liability insurance, in order to be on campus.
18. Event Logistics
There are multiple events throughout the week. There are
layouts and décor change. The general feel for the week is
reflected in the name “DragonFrost.” Sodexo is used as the
vendor for ice cream, cookies and the soup feed. Athletics
is used on the Go Pink game and scholarship efforts. Papa
John’s is used for the pizza party and MSUM receives a
discounted rate as they are a sponsor of the Athletic Dept.
20. Works Cited
Becky Boyles Jones. Assistant Director of
Activities & Greek life. 218-477-
2524.
Shelly Sommers. Community Outreach
Coordinator.
Sommersmi@mnstate.edu
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