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Mission Accomplished! 500 Tweets & 500 Photos!

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Mission Accomplished! 500 Tweets & 500 Photos!

By Sarah Simpson Posted: May 23, 2012

We asked and you delivered!  At this year’s Afterschool for All Challenge we issued our followers a new "challenge" to help us bring the conference to life and make all of our afterschool advocates heard online.  We asked you to help us create a total of 500 event photos and 500 tweets using our official event hashtags #a4aChallenge and #AfterschoolWorks.  And you made it look easy!  The two-day conference generated more than 600 tweets and almost 600 photos from conference-goers and advocates across the country—wow! 

We especially loved the photos we received (like the ones below) from programs who were sporting their afterschool green in support of afterschool for all!

We’ve created a permanent gallery with some of the best Challenge photos, and you can still see a feed with the latest afterschool tweets on our Challenge homepage. 

Do you have any photos from the Afterschool for All Challenge?  There’s still time to send them to us and have them displayed on our website!  Email photos to afterschoolalliance.challenge@picasaweb.com. 

Thanks again for helping to make the Afterschool for All Challenge such a huge success!  We can’t wait for next year!

 

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