Our story
Built from inside student government.
I built SGA Sync while serving as student government president at Framingham State, to fix the problems I ran into every week.
01 · Where it startedA skeleton crew and an empty ballot.
When I ran for president in 2025, the race was uncontested. Our SGA was a crew of seven. At one point we had no senators, and the vice president and secretary seats sat empty.
There was no website, and our posters spent their space listing election rules. In our 2025 election, 36 students voted.
At the American Student Government Association's conference in Orlando, one idea stuck with me: voter turnout is the best measure of student involvement. So that's where I started.
02 · What changedMake SGA easy to find, easy to join, and hard to miss.
- 01
Say what SGA actually does
Most students didn't know. Once we explained that SGA oversees the student activities fund that pays for events across campus, the case for getting involved made itself.
- 02
Recruit for strengths
I recruited from Model UN for parliamentary experience, from orientation, and from my own classes. The ask was always how we could serve each other, not recruiting for recruiting's sake.
- 03
Lower the barrier
I built our first website with everything needed to run and vote, and swapped rule-filled posters for simple QR codes.
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Be everywhere
Posters, lawn signs, classroom visits, stickers, table tents and campus screens. We added a fall election and turned Election Day into Election Week.
03 · What happened
votes in our spring election, roughly 10% of the student body.
members on our SGA team at its peak.
students running for senate in a single fall election.
Uncontested in 2025. In 2026, nearly every race had more than one candidate.
04 · The new problemGrowth broke our paperwork.
Administrators started coming to us about campus initiatives, capital projects and events. Students who didn't run asked when the next election was. It was the best kind of problem.
It was still a problem. A 15-minute onboarding turned into a binder for every new member: committee times, how business moves, all our documents. Our secretary was capturing every vote and every line of minutes as the room kept growing. And every graduation threatened to take what we'd learned with it.
So I built Sync.
05 · What's next
Every student government deserves a better handoff.
Sync started as a tool for my own SGA. Now I'm building it for any student government facing the same turnover, onboarding and record-keeping problems. If that sounds like yours, I'd love to talk.
Cesar Matos