Relay for Life had its jam-packed Kickoff Week last week that was full of awesome activities! Events ranging from giving out free cake to dorm performances by UVA’s finest a cappella groups were all designed to promote Relay For Life at UVA. Wednesday, Relay gave out free birthday cake to serve as a yummy reminder as to why we Relay. While this was going on, we were “Combatting Cancer” by giving out free Campus Cookies at the South Lawn. There was also a Lemongrass Night where students brought in Relay flyers and got $2 off of their favorite Thai and Vietnamese food. To end Wednesday, there were great dorm performances by AVP, Virginia Belles, and the New Dominions at both Old and New Dorms.
trivia questions on the American Cancer Society and free lollipops at Clark were given out to help students remember those who had fought cancer in the past. In the South Lawn, we had a really cool event where had students write about why the Relay in the form of “I Relay for…” and they would get yummy Splendora’s gelato. We gave out more food also as later in the day we gave out free Jimmy John’s at Clark! Relay also took over O-Hill that night with our “Take a Bite out of Cancer” Night! It was cool because students could pick up ribbon supporting specific types of cancer they wanted to support against like breast cancer and leukemia and they put the on their backpacks to show support!
On our last day, Friday, we had students pledge on what they would do to fight cancer! This got a lot of interaction with students and made them realize that they could do a lot in this fight. And we finished Kickoff Week with a late night bake sale at Beta Bridge selling late night snacks.
Kickoff Week was a great success as over $1,750 was raised between canning, the late night bake sale, and online donations. 73 new participants were registered and 6 new teams were also created! Congrats to Relay Exec for doing a fantastic job in promoting Relay at UVA and pushing towards our goal of $113,000!
RelayLove,
Relay For Life at UVA
