Members of the Pilipino American Student Society or PASS, have come up with a creative way for their participants to donate and raise money.

In the past month, PASS has raised money by having penny wars.

Maesee Lor, food science junior and president of PASS told us what penny wars was and the cause that it is able to help.

“Penny wars is an event where we raise money for a certain cause, and for this month it was for Filipino American month of October and we are also raising money for our Philippine culture night Nov. 21,” Lor said.

This is the second time that PASS has had penny wars, and this time members were put into teams where each of them had to try to raise the highest amount at the end of each week.

After the winners are determined, the losing team has to do an unusual dare.

In the past few weeks, these dares have included doing Otso Otso (a Filipino dance and song) in a public place, crossing the Red Cedar River, and more recently eating a Filipino dessert — Halo Halo — with weird miscellaneous added ingredients.

Andrew Davenport, computer science senior and internal vice president of PASS talked more about the theme of penny wars.

“We decided to go with Pokemon, but also we’re trying to incorporate Filipino history,” Davenport said. “So the dares are Filipino based.”

Adding in the theme of Pokemon was a strategy that has lead to comical relief and friendly competition amongst the members. It has also helped get people more active with donating.

"Certain organizations, we come through struggles of how to fundraise money and how to efficiently do it," Lor said.

Although using penny wars is a fairly new way for PASS to raise money, it has proven to be successful amongst the members.

Economics junior and external vice president, Nicole Ramos, gave insight on the success of penny wars.

“I think reaching out to more members instead of just our e-board members really helped, outside to APOSO organizations as well was also a big difference,” Ramos said.