Simple tips to succeed when hosting a virtual Women’s History Month trivia

Women’s History Month, celebrated in March each year, is a time set aside to honor women from different fields, create awareness about their contributions to society, and serve as a period for us all to champion gender equity. Hosting a virtual Women’s History Month trivia is one of the best ways to commemorate the month. However, in order to host these activities and contribute to female advocacy, we need proper planning and execution. Here’s how your company or family can organize a successful virtual trivia to help make a difference this month.

Recruit participants

A great first step to contributing to Women’s History Month through trivia is to recruit your participants. These could be your employees if you’re organizing this as a company or family and friends if you come together as a family to celebrate women during the month. For companies that want to commemorate the month in a grand style, participants could be employees and any other person who they invite, including friends of families of employees, customers, and partners.

After making a list of all participants, the host can reach out to them through social media forums, Slack or Discord channels, and company or family social media pages. This can also be the time for the host to recruit moderators by asking participants to volunteer. At this stage, the goal is to get anyone interested on board and let them in on the type of trivia, the game’s duration, and anything that could help in making this virtual event successful.

Choose questions

Fun fact: if you organize trivia for 24 hours a day for the entire month of March, you still won’t cover a quarter of the history of women and their contributions to our society. Regardless, teams should make the effort to cover as many questions as possible by capturing many themes, including sports, music, art, film, science, politics, and leadership, just to mention a few.

Choose the right technology

These days, there’s hardly any virtual activity without the mention of Zoom or Microsoft Teams. While these software programs are good at making video calls, they are not designed for question-and-answer activities like virtual trivia. Therefore, after choosing your video conferencing tool of choice, it’s important to give it team building and virtual learning superpowers by adding accessories like Bar None Games. With this combo, you can create many trivia questions about Women’s History while also spicing the event with your company’s branding or with your family’s favorite colors.

Rules must exist for a smooth experience

For your virtual Women’s History Month trivia to succeed, there must be rules. These rules are used to regulate participants and create smooth transitions and collaboration. Examples would include how communication will be regulated, when to cut into someone’s answer (that’s if it’s allowed), and how one can ask for clarifications on anything. If possible, there should be contacts (email, Slack channels, etc) of people who are ready to answer questions or clarify things for participants.