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Astronomical Fun(draiser) for Cancer Society, Wed. March 17, 2010!
The SFU Student Astronomy Club hosted an Astronomical Fun(daiser) to benefit the Canadian Cancer Society's
Relay for Life!
The SFU Student Astronomy Club President, Ciara Morgan-Feir, pledged that if $1,700 could be raised at this St. Patrick's Day event, then she would shave all 18 inches of hair off her head! This was all part of SFU's annual fundraising drive to benefit the Canadian Cancer Society's Relay for Life!
Ciara and her co-organizer Alanna Shuh put on a great event, and all of us who helped out are extraordinarily grateful to our roughly 50 guests, who contributed a total of $833.19 to this worthy cause!
Many thanks to our speakers, Craig Breckenridge of Dynamics Structures and the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Vancouver Centre, and Mark Eburne, also of the Vancouver Centre. We'd like to thank our sponsors for this event: the Simon Fraser Student Society, the SFU physics department, the office of the SFU Dean of Science, the Vancouver Telescope Centre, and astro-photographer James Black. Special thanks to our dedicated volunteers Carolyn Kierans, Grace Min, Julian Monks, Leigh Cummings, Ramin Nazarali, Shelby Aylen, and Yiwei Zhang.
With her other fundraising activities, Ciara brought in a total of $1033.19! That was a tremendous effort, Ciara, congratulations! She even shaved off most of her hair at the main SFU Relay for Life event on Friday March 19 (and was joined by Julian Monks, who went totally bald in a show of support).
To raise funds at tonight's event, we asked for admission donations of $3 per person (to a maximum of $10/family). Pizza and a drink were also on-sale, at $2/serving (with all proceeds of the pizza dinner also going to the Relay for Life). We also held a $1 raffle for prize drawings. Leigh Cummings was very adept at passing around a bucket during the fundraising rush before we began the formal program.
Here was the program for this evening:
- 5:30PM-6:00PM: Pizza dinner is served ($2/slice, including a drink).
- 6:00PM-7:00PM: Two special guest lectures: "ROLLER COASTERS and TELESCOPES", and "LIGHT POLLUTION".
- 7:00PM-7:15PM: $1 raffle with great prizes, and a presentation of telescopes earned by young families.
- 7:15PM-9:15PM: Screening of a Hollywood science fiction blockbuster from spring 2009.
- 9:15PM-???: PUB NIGHT at the Highland pub to wrap it all up - for those of a suitable age, of course ;)!
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Starry-eyed
@ SFU since Nov. 2007
