Why compete? In addition to the personal rewards of learning and raising awareness about global poverty and preventable diseases, the ONE Campus Challenge offers some pretty sweet prizes to the hardest-working and most effective student advocates.

Monthly Challenge Prizes

Every month, we'll award a significant number of points (usually, 10,000 or more) to the school with the best entry for the monthly challenge. The winning school will also receive an extra-special prize -- it could be a prize pack full of ONE gear, a party on campus, a trip to DC, something meaningful related to the monthly theme, or practically anything else. We'll announce these bonus prizes each month with the month's challenge.

And new this year, for some challenges we'll have runner-up points and prizes for the second- and third-place challenge entries, as well.

The Power 100 Summit

Every year, ONE flies representatives from the top 100 Campus Challenge schools to an elite 3-day conference in Washington, DC. There, students hear from political and NGO leaders of the global poverty movement, meet ONE staff, and of course, network with 99 of the nation's most motivated student advocates for ONE. The Summit caps off with a day on Capitol Hill, where students meet their Members of Congress to discuss legislative solutions to global poverty.

The Top School Prize

Last year, students told us the grand prize should better fit the work you do as advocates for the world's poorest people -- that it should make a difference, and not just be a one-night party or a bunch of T-shirts, MP3 players and cameras. That stuff is fun, but it's not what motivates you to be a part of this movement.

Therefore, if your school wins the 2009-10 ONE Campus Challenge, your team will receive a $10,000 donation in your school's name to the ONE partner organization of your choice. That money will make a huge difference on the ground in the developing world, helping the cause that means most to you. And the press and prestige your school receives should keep the campus active in the fight against global poverty for years to come.

You should choose your beneficiary partner organization while you're working on your Top 10 Project, and use that organization's name and cause to support your project.

The Top 20 Schools

Representatives from the top 20 schools will be invited to submit applications for five spots on a week-long trip to Africa over the summer. Check out last summer's trip to Kenya, here.