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One small gamification aspect was incorporated into senior chemical engineering labs. "Bragging Points" were awarded for certain things that the students should be doing in classes anyway, such as arriving on time and following instructions for reports. Bragging Points were awarded only to teams to encourage students to hold their teammates accountable. Approximately 70 Bragging Points were available during the course. Twenty Bragging Points could be converted to course grade points as extra credit on either individual exam grades or formal reports. Extra credit on multiple exams or reports was allowed, one for each block of 20 Bragging Points. A display board in the lab control room let students see which team was doing the best in the points race. Students themselves noticed that the teams with students with reputations for earning good grades also had the most Bragging Points. Anecdotally, students were on time to classes and meetings more when they received Bragging Points that in earlier semesters without them, and the faculty felt greater pressure to be on time to class, too! An analysis of the correlation of grades with Bragging Points earned and compliance with course expectations will be presented in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]