Everything You Need To Know About 2015 Student Free Hugs Day
We had an amazing Student Free Hugs Day this year on November 5th, 2015. We had 90 schools sign up and collectively, they pledged 43,256 hugs! Here’s everything you need to know and want to read: Thank you so much to everyone participated. Look out for Random Acts of Kindness day in Spring of 2016 […]
3 Unique Hugging Practices: HALFTIME for #FreeHugs15!
We are halfway through #FreeHugs15, and Instagram is really feeling the love. We noticed some extra cool hugging trends from different schools. Here are a few to give you some fresh inspiration as you continue to embrace. Hugging not limited to students at Jamestown Community College! Hugging it up with campus security officer, Wade! #FreeHugs15 #HugLife A photo […]
The #FREEHUGS16 Tips You NEED to Know for 11/3
The big day is almost upon us! That’s right, November 3rd is almost here and all those pledged hugs will be made reality. To get you in the spirit, we wanted to share some really good tips with you on how to make the most of #FreeHugs Day. Think student center or freshman quad. Is everyone […]
10 Reasons to Participate in #FreeHugs15
When you sign up for Free Hugs Day, we ask you to describe why you’re excited to participate. This always leads to some fantastic answers. We picked a few of our favorites, enjoy! (That last one proves what kind of awesome interns we have! Shout out to Matt!) Now seriously, if you haven’t pledged, go do […]
And the Winning #FreeHugs Postcard Is…[Insert Drumroll]
We recently asked all of you, the members of the Dance Floor Theory community, to help us pick a new #FreeHugs postcard. Jasmin Prows, a very talented student artist and leader from Salt Lake Community College, came up with some great designs, and we were thrilled to share them with all of you. We appreciate all […]
Help Us Choose the New #FreeHugs Postcard!
Every year, we commission a student artist in our Dance Floor Theory community to create a new design for our Free Hugs Postcard for the upcoming school year. As we move into another school year, we need your help in picking the final design for our new Free Hugs postcard. Thanks to the incredibly talented Jasmin […]
Get 10% off the SK Store – Because #FreeHugs are in Fashion
So you may have noticed the store has been revamped and made shiny. We are super excited about it! It’s got us making silly ads about it like these: If you make a cool image like this and send it to [email protected], we might just give you a 10% off coupon to the store! I […]
New Types of #FreeHugs I Learned About Today
Over at the Student Leader Collective, the hashtag of the day is #FreeHugs, and it’s AWESOME. I wrote a post about my favorite things I noticed about what students are doing to make #FreeHugs their own. It’s so cool to see that our idea of doing a Free Hugs Day gets taken and made even […]
Free Intelligent Conversation – Another Genius Blender Event Idea
A friend of ours sent us a link to this Kickstarter campaign to help 13 college students tour the Northeast US with “Free Intelligent Conversation” signs, much like the Free Hugs day. They feel that everyone is intelligent in their own way based on their experiences, and everyone deserves to share this intelligence. They look […]
Free High Fives, Just In Case Hugs Scare You
As you probably know, Swift Kick enjoys the #FreeHugs movement. A lot. Sometimes, though, we run across people who do not enjoy the whole hugging thing, and we get it. Not everyone is a hugger. Anyone who participated in #FreeHugs Day knows that. So when we came across this Improv Everywhere video, we knew we […]