• Sign in or register your USG Well-being account at ourwellbeing.usg.edu > Social > Challenges.
• Make sure your activity tracker is connected to get credit for all your hard-earned steps.
• Employees and spouses enrolled in a USG healthcare plan can earn 2,000 points by tracking steps each week of the challenge.

Dates

• This challenge starts on August 14 at 12 a.m. and ends on September 24 at 11:59 p.m.
• The last chance to upload your steps is September 25 at 11:59 p.m. local time. Steps uploaded after this date won’t be counted in the final results. Try uploading daily—it’s more fun!

Teams

• Teams are formed automatically in this challenge.
• You’ll be assigned to a team with others from your institution.

Scores

• Team scores are based on the average number of steps per team member.
• The more steps you and your teammates get, the better your score.
• To contribute to your team score, upload steps from a fitness tracker or app.
• You can get credit for a maximum of 30,000 steps per day (so aim high)!
• At the end of the challenge, the institution with the highest average step count wins and takes home the traveling trophy!
• To qualify for the trophy, at least 40% of the institution’s eligible population must be enrolled on the USG Well-being platform and the institution must have at least 5% of the eligible population or 25 participants enrolled in the challenge (whichever is greater).

Good to Know

• The Walk and Talk Step Challenge turns each institution into one giant team.
• There are no destinations to unlock in this challenge, just an all-out step competition. Keep stepping throughout the challenge or another team could still pass you on the Challenge Leaderboard.