{"id":284,"date":"2018-02-25T21:49:50","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2018\/02\/25\/2018225qthon-exceeds-fundraising-goal-by-15000-dollars\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:48:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:48:35","slug":"2018225qthon-exceeds-fundraising-goal-by-15000-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2018\/02\/25\/2018225qthon-exceeds-fundraising-goal-by-15000-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"QTHON exceeds goal, raises more than $265k"},"content":{"rendered":"<div\n        class=\"\n          image-block-outer-wrapper\n          layout-caption-below\n          design-layout-inline\n          \n          \n          \n        \"\n        data-test=\"image-block-inline-outer-wrapper\"\n    ><\/p>\n<figure\n            class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \"\n            style=\"max-width:1024.0px;\"\n        ><\/p>\n<div\n              \n                style=\"padding-bottom:75.0%;\"\n              \n              class=\"\n                image-block-wrapper\n                \n          \n        \n                has-aspect-ratio\n              \"\n              data-animation-role=\"image\"\n              \n  data-animation-override\n\n          ><br \/>\n            <noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_7506.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7506.JPG\" \/><\/noscript><img class=\"thumb-image\" data-src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_7506.jpg\" data-image=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_7506.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"1024x768\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" alt=\"IMG_7506.JPG\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"5a93303b53450a1796108308\" data-type=\"image\" \/>\n          <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p><strong>By Mary Rose Bevins<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>About 1,500 Quinnipiac University students waited Saturday night for 21 cards to be flipped over to reveal how much money they had raised for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.connecticutchildrens.org\/\">Connecticut Children&#8217;s Medical Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A \u201cLet\u2019s go, QTHON!\u201d chant starts as organizers turned over each card.<\/p>\n<p>When the cards had been flipped, the numbers revealed $265,431.79.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd erupted into cheers, chants and tears as QTHON surpassed its fundraising goal by more than $15,000, establishing a new high in the eighth year of the event at Quinnipiac.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s something so special about holding one of those cards. It was a rush of emotions,\u201d QTHON recruitment director Alex Ford said.<\/p>\n<p>The QTHON management committee and student organization committees worked through the school year to put on the 10-hour dance event that took place in the Quinnipiac University Recreation Center Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Athletics teams, greek organizations and clubs like Alpha Delta Pi, Quinnipiac Student Nurses and IceCats created teams to dance for the entirety of the event and also hosted a \u201cmiracle child,\u201d or, a specific child who benefited from the money raised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do (this) for my future patients and to make sure another kid doesn\u2019t see the inside of a hospital room,\u201d Ford said.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Clarke, a senior public relations major, said, \u201cThis is a way to give kids a voice and raise money for a good cause.\u201d<\/p>\n<div\n        class=\"\n          image-block-outer-wrapper\n          layout-caption-below\n          design-layout-inline\n          \n          \n          \n        \"\n        data-test=\"image-block-inline-outer-wrapper\"\n    ><\/p>\n<figure\n            class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \"\n            style=\"max-width:768.0px;\"\n        ><\/p>\n<div\n              \n                style=\"padding-bottom:91.14582824707031%;\"\n              \n              class=\"\n                image-block-wrapper\n                \n          \n        \n                has-aspect-ratio\n              \"\n              data-animation-role=\"image\"\n              \n  data-animation-override\n\n          ><br \/>\n            <noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_7505.jpg\" alt=\"Miracle child Emma singing Taylor Swift's: &quot;Look What You Made Me Do&quot;\" \/><\/noscript><img class=\"thumb-image\" data-src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_7505.jpg\" data-image=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_7505.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"768x700\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" alt=\"Miracle child Emma singing Taylor Swift's: &quot;Look What You Made Me Do&quot;\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"5a932e5171c10b0d6549329d\" data-type=\"image\" \/>\n          <\/div><figcaption class=\"image-caption-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-caption\">\n<p>Miracle child Emma singing Taylor Swift&#8217;s: &#8220;Look What You Made Me Do&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Each participant was responsible for achieving a personal fundraising goal.<\/p>\n<p>Some got creative with ways of receiving donations, like fundraising committee member Megan McCarthy, who took her personal fundraising to another level by using Venmo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI Venmo-requested friends, family and my ex to donate to QTHON throughout the week and night,\u201d McCarthy said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so proud of all of the people who worked so hard to make this goal achievable. It makes me so incredibly happy that we were raise that much for the kids,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Various activities took place through the 10 hours to keep the energy up.<\/p>\n<p>Decked out from head to toe and wearing neon pink shirts were members of the morale committee.<\/p>\n<p>Every hour on the hour they performed a 10-minute routine &#8212; rehearsed months prior.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew I wanted to be a role model and have more of an impact on this event, so I applied for (the morale committee) and never looked back,\u201d Melissa Podias said.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the day, organizers went on stage and asked participants to take out their phones and ask family and friends to donate through apps. That effort raised about $7,000 in one hour.<\/p>\n<p>Fundraising co-chair Katie Stokarski said, \u201cI was very nervous about us reaching our goal. A quarter of million dollars is a huge goal for a school our size, but the push we had at night of made us reach our goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other activities during the long day included a game of knockout and a game of HQ Trivia QTHON version. There were also different theme hours that included Disney, holiday and throwback Thursday themes in which participants dressed up.<\/p>\n<div\n        class=\"\n          image-block-outer-wrapper\n          layout-caption-below\n          design-layout-inline\n          \n          \n          \n        \"\n        data-test=\"image-block-inline-outer-wrapper\"\n    ><\/p>\n<figure\n            class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \"\n            style=\"max-width:768.0px;\"\n        ><\/p>\n<div\n              \n                style=\"padding-bottom:133.33334350585938%;\"\n              \n              class=\"\n                image-block-wrapper\n                \n          \n        \n                has-aspect-ratio\n              \"\n              data-animation-role=\"image\"\n              \n  data-animation-override\n\n          ><br \/>\n            <noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_7504.jpg\" alt=\"Morale dancer Erin Schirra dressed as Moana for Disney Hour\" \/><\/noscript><img class=\"thumb-image\" data-src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_7504.jpg\" data-image=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_7504.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"768x1024\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" alt=\"Morale dancer Erin Schirra dressed as Moana for Disney Hour\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"5a932d33ec212d9451e5763b\" data-type=\"image\" \/>\n          <\/div><figcaption class=\"image-caption-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-caption\">\n<p>Morale dancer Erin Schirra dressed as Moana for Disney Hour<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThrowback hour was definitely my favorite because it reminded me of my childhood,\u201d QTHON participant Jess Ciccarella said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quinnipiac hosted its eighth annual QTHON on Feb. 24. 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