Extra Board Points? Here’s What To Do With Them
We have less than a month until Renn Fayre 2025: A Cosmic Resurgence, which means there are only three weeks until we will have a campus wide Feast! In case you don’t know, a team of alumni spend 48 hours straight smoking meat which painted blue people deliver to the Quad, and students prepare food with Commons to serve alongside the Feast. Due to Renn Fayre’s reduced budget this year, we are heavily relying on the tradition of students donating their extra board points to the Feast budget. If you have more money in your student account than you were expecting, and want to make sure it doesn’t go to waste, DONATE TO FEAST!
The process to donate board points is super simple and you can contribute as little or as much as you would like up until Renn Fayre weekend. The Feast cannot happen without your contributions, so follow the steps below to contribute to this community-wide meal!
How to donate board points:
Download and open the Commons mobile ordering app, labeled “Transact Mobile Ordering” on the app store. Bonus: you can also order things from Commons ahead of time for pickup on this app.
Navigate to the “Marketplace Online” section on the home page, and click through the “Market Place” tab.
The option to donate to Renn Fayre should immediately pop up, but if it doesn’t, search “Renn Fayre Donation.”
Four donation options will appear, which you can choose from based on your needs and capabilities. While we would greatly appreciate $500 donations, we understand that this is not always feasible! $25 from many students will go a long way in supporting students’ culinary creations.
Once you select how much you want to donate and “add to order”, navigate to checkout. Make sure you are paying with your own board points, unless you would like to pay with a credit card, in which case, select that option.
Hit that pay button! Stay in the app while the order processes, but once the screen returns to the home page, you have completed your donation! It may state that your order will be ready for pick up, disregard that message. You can donate as much as you would like, multiple days in a row, until Renn Fayre weekend!
To anyone who decides to donate, we deeply appreciate you. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Renn Fayre, and especially Feast, cannot happen without these contributions from our community and we are so grateful for your participation. If you are not financially able to donate board points to Feast, we completely understand. Please consider signing up to volunteer to prep cook for Feast in the week leading up to Renn Fayre, because as much as Feast needs monetary support, we also need hands in the kitchen!
In the next few weeks, keep planning your outfits for Renn Fayre weekend (May 2 to May 4), signing up to volunteer, assembling your softball teams, and going to BARF meetings every Saturday at 12:00 pm in the SU. Make sure to check your mailboxes, as you have a gift from the czars for all your help in the Renn Fayre planning process!