Update: The students who were eligible have been invited to the Huskie Bowl on April 22 where they will be seated in the Yordon Terrace, in the north end zone, and food will be provided by NIU Athletics. Students will also receive two free football season tickets for the season following their graduation and $100 towards tuition for this semester, according to an email sent to Mission 6 candidates.

NIU Athletics will “reward” each student who attended all NIU home football games for the Mission 6 initiative.

The Mission 6 initiative debuted for the 2015 football season with the goal to have at least 6,000 NIU students at each of the Huskies’ six home football games. Students who attended every game and stayed for the whole game were eligible to win free tuition for the spring 2016 semester, according to the NIU Alumni Association website.

Because the attendance did not reach 6,000 students at each game, the 86 students who came to each home football game were not eligible for the tuition waiver, according to a Feb. 4 Northern Star article.

“After consultation with our director of Athletics, the decision was made to reward each individual student that attended all six home games during the 2015 NIU football season,” said Morris White, assistant athletic director for Marketing and Game Experience, in a Monday news release.

The exact nature of the reward will not be released until after the students are reached, White said.

White said he expects the students to be reached by the end of the week.

“We will continue to improve our communication with our students to ensure there is no confusion around our promotions moving forward,” White said in the news release. “At the end of the day, we are all on the same team and want to make every student’s experience, here at NIU, a memorable one.”