Relay For Life- Wednesday Night Kickoff

Even though Pace’s Relay For Life is still months away, students are already kicking off its celebrations.

This past Thursday, students gathered in the Willcox Multipurpose Room for the Relay For Life 2017 Kickoff event. From 9:00 p.m. until about 10:15 p.m., students learned about the event that will be held on Friday, April 21st, 2017 in the Goldstein Fitness Center.

Sitting around tables filled with different board games (to go along with the 2017 Relay For Life “Game” theme), students listened to different people telling them about the event and how they can participate in it. This included hearing one Pace student who is a cancer survivor tell her story, and watching different videos about where the money raised from the event goes to. Provided with different pastas and desserts, attendees also took part in an activity to decide on the goal of how much money to raise at the event, ultimately deciding on $50,000.

Kickoff, put on by Colleges Against Cancer, was put on to encourage students to sign up for the event and get other people to as well. Relay For Life is an event put on every year all over the world to raise money for the American Cancer Society. For 12 hours, students, faculty members, administrators, survivors, and community members come together to walk around the track, participate in events, and most importantly, raise money to fight cancer.

Before they left, attendees also placed sticky notes on tape that formed the word “hope” on the wall, leaving uplifting messages about why they participate in Relay.