With $100,000 on the line, the Mohawk Students’ Association wants your ideas for how to improve student life.

MSA President Andy Hall announced the Mohawk Gives Back campaign this morning. Students can submit their ideas for improving student life at any of the four campuses, vote on their favourite ideas, and see their improvements come to life.

“We thought if there’s one student group that’s really pushing forward to get funding towards one of their initiatives, or something that would improve their student life at Mohawk College … maybe there’s a lot of other students who have an idea but don’t think there’s funding available so maybe they don’t come forward. That’s the whole idea behind MSA Gives Back.”

Half of the money, coming from the MSA’s reserve fund, is being matched by the College to allow for this $100,000 project.

Students can submit ideas at MSAGivesBack.ca starting today until March 20. The students who submit the top ten stories will pitch their projects to the judging panel Dragon’s Den-style on March 26. The winning project will be implemented by September 2013.

Hall said the ideas can be for anything – from new equipment for technology students, to lounge areas around campus, to apps to help new students learn to use the school’s services. The student who submits the winning idea will receive a $1,000 cash prize.

“There obviously isn’t going to be a student out there who has a $100,000 idea,” said Hall. “Maybe there’s ten students with ten $10,000 ideas…If five student ideas are chosen, then five students will win $1,000.”

The judging panel consists of Mohawk College President Rob MacIsaac, Vice President of Student Services Wayne Poirier, MSA President Andy Hall, and MSA Vice President of Marketing, Ashley Coles.

Voting begins March 7 and runs until the end of the campaign.