Enjoy the NIRSA 2025 All Conference Social, sponsored by SportsArt

NIRSA 2025 attendees will be treated to an exciting announcement in Orlando, as the Association celebrates 75 years of NIRSA during the All Conference Social, sponsored by SportsArt with activities provided by Grit ‘N Wit and PlayTech Interactive.

The iconic NIRSA All Conference Social will happen at the Gaylord Palms’ Mangrove Lawn and Southern Beach Pool from 6:00pm until 9:00pm on Wednesday, when the prize winners of the 2025 SportsArt Campus Challenge Sweepstakes will be announced!

“This year marks NIRSA’s 75th anniversary,” says Ruben Mejia, Executive Vice President for SportsArt Americas. “So, in a nod to this venerable organization, we’ve raised the Campus Challenge grand prize package to $75,000.”

Celebrate the winners in Orlando

Kickoff NIRSA 2025 with a bang by celebrating the Association’s 75th anniversary with your NIRSA friends at the All Conference Social. Enjoy the beautiful Florida weather at the outdoor swimming pool, dance along with the DJ, and have fun connecting with your colleagues. We have a lot of fun things to look forward to, including a STEP performance by a local youth group. Tasty hor d’oeuvres and non-alcoholic beverages will be provided and prize package winners and individual student winners will be announced.

The three prize winning schools—Lafayette College, Pearl River Community College, and The University of South Alabama—are confirmed. With three prize levels, one student will win their campus recreation center a grand prize package worth $75,000 that includes five ECO-POWR™ treadmills. The second prize winning school will receive three ECO-POWR™ steppers, while the third-place entry will receive three ECO-POWR™ rowers.

In addition to the prize packages going to the three schools, cash prizes will be awarded to the winning student entrants and donations will be made on their behalf to on-campus sustainability organizations. The Grand Prize student winner will receive $3,000 for themselves and another $3,000 for their chosen student organization. Second place will be awarded $2,000 for themselves and $2,000 for their organization of choice, while the third-place student receives $1,000 and another $1,000 for their preferred student organization.

About the 2025 SportsArt Campus Challenge

SportsArt, a leader in sustainable fitness solutions, recently asked eligible college students to accept the challenge to live more sustainably on their campuses, and three randomly selected finalists will win prize packages of SportsArt ECO-POWR™ energy-generating premium cardio equipment totaling more than $145,000. The SportsArt ECO-POWR™ line transforms human energy into clean, usable electric power.

The second annual SportsArt Campus Challenge sweepstakes accepted entries from January 1 to March 15; to enter the sweepstakes, college students submitted social media videos accepting the challenge to be more sustainable in their campus life. The videos that were submitted showcase the great sustainability work that students are already doing on their college campuses.

“College students are taking the initiative to change our shared world, and the Campus Challenge Sweepstakes demonstrates the importance of sustainability in their lives,” says Ruben Mejia.

About SportsArt

If you don’t connect with the SportsArt team at the SportsArt team at Mangrove Lawn and Southern Beach Pool on Wednesday night, you can swing by Booth #1004 in the Campus Rec Expo on Thursday and Friday to learn more about their long history of innovative design and manufacturing excellence, SportsArt continues to lead the fitness industry through revolutionary sustainable solutions. Along with the world’s only line of energy-generating cardio equipment, ECO-POWR™, SportsArt also offers a full range of high-quality cardio, strength, and rehabilitation equipment for campus recreation and wellbeing facilities.

SportsArt has a decades-long history of prioritizing sustainability with its processes, policies, people, products and partnerships. This includes recycling and water conservation at its Taiwan production facility, and a solar-power initiative that uses solar panels to produce enough electricity to power the 500,000 square-foot SportsArt headquarters for half the year. Further, since January 2011, the Taiwan factory has been ISO-14001 certified—following standards that reduce negative effects on the environment.

Rooted in social consciousness and the belief that serving others is better than serving themselves, SportsArt is now sparking the hunger and ambition of college students accepting the challenge to create a nationwide movement to make the world a better place.