Katie Brandt
Honors Freshman Seminar
Professor Rosner
The Kahoot! Situation
On Wednesday September 14th, the Stockton Entertainment Team (SET) hosted Kahoot! Music Trivia Night in the Campus Center. This event was a one-time only game night that all students were invited to. Upon entrance to the Campus Center, SET members welcomed attendees and offered refreshments and candy. All students were asked to combine into teams of four to work together when answering the trivia questions. It was explained that each group should have one team captain that would use their phone to respond to the questions shown on the projector. After each question was shown, there would be a few seconds given to discuss with teammates to decide which of the four possible answers was correct. All of the teams were thoroughly enjoying themselves until there was a wireless connection issue. One-by-one each team started to lose the connection between their captain’s phone and the trivia questions on the projector. Phones were freezing left and right. Multiple groups became frustrated and left the game entirely. SET decided the only fair way to continue playing was to restart the whole question set. For the groups that kept playing, it seemed like a great idea. Everything was going smoothly during the retry game until it happened again. Phones were losing connection again and participants started to become upset. My team was doing great and getting all the answers right and we were all so excited. We were in the top five on the leaderboard. When the connection failed the second time, my team decided we were going to leave. SET should not be blamed for the technical problems. No one can control the strength of the wireless internet. It was a shame about the connection issues because the event was put together so well and everyone was having a blast.