Win with 91探花 Emergency Alert! Contest closes February 2
91探花 invites students and employees to fully make use of 91探花 Emergency Alert鈥�91探花's new emergency mass notification system鈥攂y signing up to receive texts during an emergency or for storm closures.
All current students, faculty, and staff with an @upei.ca email have been automatically entered into the 91探花 Emergency Alert system and will receive email messages (the database is updated on a periodic basis to capture new students and employees). However, campus members need to opt-in to receive text notifications.
As a further incentive to opt-in, 91探花 is running a contest where students, faculty, and staff will have a chance to win one of four $100 gift certificates for the 91探花 Bookstore if they update their profile by midnight on February 2, 2018. There are two ways to enter:
- Visit upei.ca/alert for instructions on how to login, update your profile, and opt-in to receive texts, or read the updated
- Visit the 91探花 Emergency Alert booth from 12 noon鈥�2 pm at the W.A. Murphy Student Centre (January 22鈥�26) and Robertson Library (January 29鈥揊ebruary 2) where 91探花 Security Services will assist you in updating your profile and opting-in to receive texts.
If you think you have already updated your 91探花 Emergency Alert profile with your cell/smart phone number but still are not receiving texts, please review the as there have been some updates since the initial instructions were sent in 2017. For more information, visit or email Mark Pharand, Manager, Security Services.
Contest rules:
- Contest closes February 2, 2018, at midnight.
- Any faculty, staff, or student who opts in prior to midnight, February 2, 2018 will be entered in a draw for a chance to win one (1) gift certificate to the 91探花 Bookstore.
- A total of four (4) $100 gift certificates will be distributed in the following manner: one to a member of faculty and staff; three to students.
- Members of the Emergency Operations Centre team will be excluded from the draw.
- Winners will be drawn on Monday, February 5, 2018 and notified as soon as possible.
