Thursday, November 6, 2025
photos by Anna E. Reed, photographer (student)
Student engagement recently hosted Grocery Loteria. Loteria is a Mexican game similar to bingo – a Penn College favorite. In addition to learning a new game, players had a chance to win packages of ingredients – with accompanying recipes – to make common Hispanic dishes. The event coincided with National Hispanic Heritage Month.
A player shows off her game board. Loteria is similar to bingo, except that, instead of numbers, players must match pictures of everyday objects that are drawn by the caller (or “cantor”) from a deck of cards.
The “cantor” – software development & information management student Andrea Melendrez, of Harrisburg – calls out the next card.
Ingredients for chicken fajitas await a loteria winner.
Karissa M. Prosser, Student Engagement information desk assistant, and Ellen E. Buckley, campus recreation assistant, verify a winner’s matchups. Prosser is a business administration student from Mount Jewett. Buckley, of Binghamton, N.Y., is studying industrial design.
The lucky winner walks away with ingredients and the recipe for champurrado, a hot chocolate drink.
Prizes await.
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