Event Results: Engagement and Awareness Achieved
Pilly captured the students’ attention from the start of the first lunch period.
When the flyers were passed out to students, they simply took it and did nothing
with it until I explained why everything on it could be relevant to them. Then
some students gained interest and scanned the QR code to learn about the
careers they could pursue. One student who will be attending the University of
Rhode Island College of Pharmacy took time out of his lunch to have a
meaningful conversation about the pathways and careers in pharmacy with an
RXinsider representative who attended the event.
Of the roughly 600 students at Bishop Hendricken, there were around 85-95
pictures taken with Pilly. A day after the event, a few students came up to me
and told me how they went home, scanned the QR code, and watched some of
the videos in the University of Rhode Island PharmD Exploration Center.
The number of students who scanned the QR code was dependent on how many
students were sitting at a table. Tables of eight to ten students had the highest
chance of everyone scanning the QR code. Tables with fewer students either had
everyone or no one scan the QR code.