Information about the Terp Summer Reading Challenge event
How It Works
What You'll Receive
Once registered, you'll receive a packet to your doorstep with a Terp shell bingo board, a reading log and a UMD branded bookmark.
Note: Register by May 15 to receive your packet by June 1. Register by June 1 to receive your packet by June 15.
How You'll Participate
As you read throughout the summer, keep track of the books you read through the bingo board and reading log. Mark off a category correlated to your book. Once you have at least FIVE categories marked off, you can submit to the raffle.
*Alumni Association members get a free space in the shell's center
How You'll Win
Enter the raffle for a chance to win by August 31. You gain raffle entries by:
-Submitting a bingo board with at least FIVE categories marked off
-Posting a picture of you and/or your bingo board on social media using the hashtag #TerpsRead or #TerpSummerReadingChallenge
-Referring a Terp to join the summer reading challenge
FAQs
Anyone in the Terp community. Feel free to pass this along to your fellow Terps and make it a summer reading competition.
- Register to participate and you will receive a packet mailed to your preferred address including a Terp shell bingo board, reading log and a branded bookmark.
- Read throughout the summer and mark off your shell with the correlating genre or descriptor, and fill out your reading log.
- Submit your completed bingo board by August 31. You need to cross off at least five categories to submit. Extra entries can be submitted if you refer a friend or tag us on social media.
You can enter the raffle by sending your Terp shell bingo board to us (with at least five sections/categories filled) via this Google Form by August 31.
You can also gain raffle entries by:
- Posting a picture of you reading this summer, your Terp bingo shell OR your bookmark on social media using the hashtag #TerpsRead or #TerpSummerReadingChallenge
- Referring a friend to join in on the summer reading challenge fun
One book can count for up to two sections. For example, if you read “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” by Jeff Kinney ‘93 you can cross off “Terp-authored book” and “Book part of a series”.
Join the Alumni Virtual Book Club to read alongside your fellow Terps all year long. Learn more.
Top Prize (1 winner): A Kindle
Second Prize (5 winners): $25 UMD Bookstore gift card
Third Prize (25 winners): Free copy of this year's Freshman Reading Book (To be announced soon!)
We encourage you to support your fellow Terp Authors and read not one, but two Terp authored books this summer.
Last year's recap
We had over 1,500 Terps participate from all over the world.
See below for this year's winners and a few pictures from our Terp participants.
First place prize winner:
Danielle Eliav
Second place prize winners:
Jennifer Hester
Kristin Lilly
Tara Cliff
Jennifer Foltz
Stefany Meyer
Third place prize winners:
Nina Gartenhaus
Caitlin Daw
Lisa Chesnick
Deanna Perlmutter-Tarulli
Helen Zhang
Anne DiLorenzo
Maria Ferrucci
Sarah O'Brien
Hattie Garrow
Austin Vong
Mariah Beyers
Rianna Murray
Caitlyn Mitchell
Rachel Howell
Danielle Gill
Jay Bruce
Sarah Marvi
Carol Doermann
Meghaan Lane
Agnes Conaty
Krista Scanlan
Winnie Ho
Hillary Tyler
Winnie Kwok
Rebecca Kerr
Sophia Lucian
Rebecca Wenker
Peter Rankel
We hope you join us next year!
