KNIGHT-THON 2015
Mark your Calendars…
Hospital Tour
There will be a hospital tour
at Arnold Palmer Hospital for
Children on Thursday,
October 9th at 9:45am. If you
are interested in attending,
please email Stefanie
Scalish at
[email protected].
If you can’t make it to this
one, no worries! There will be
plenty more opportunities to
go on a hospital tour
throughout the year. We
highly recommend you go on
one. Nothing grows your
passion for being FTK like
seeing directly where our
funds are going!
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Bucketing Day
The next Bucketing Day will
be Thursday, October 16th.
You can have two people
per team at each shift:
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10am-12pm
12pm-2pm
Please email Stefanie
Scalish at
[email protected]
by October 14th to sign up!
Date Auction
Our annual Date Auction
will take place on
November 12th at Burger U,
right on campus! Each
organization will put
together a date package to
auction off. In addition, all
food and drinks sold during
the event will be a partial
proceeds for Knight-Thon!
Come eat food, have fun,
and bid on some awesome
dates! It’s all FTK!
On October 29th, we will
officially be only 150 days
away from Knight-Thon
2015! To earn your team 8
points, enter the banner
competition by October 24th
at 5pm.
GREEK/RSO
SHOUT OUT!
THETA CHI
Congratulations to Theta Chi for
being the fraternity with the
most points. With 92 people,
they are also the team with the
most dancers registered on
Donor Drive!
Great job to their team captain,
Ryan Whittington! Way to keep
your team motivated! Keep up
the great work, guys!
PRE MED AMSA
150 Days until KnightThon!
MIRACLE CHILD OF THE MONTH:
Emma was born with multiple congenital
heart defects, the first is called
Transposition of the Great Vessels, she
also had a ventricular septal defect and
pulmonary atresia. TGV means that
Emma’s pulmonary artery and aorta were
switched; Emma’s heart was circulating
oxygen-depleted blood throughout her
body causing her to look blue. Sweet
little Emma underwent four open-heart
surgeries at the Heart Center at Arnold
Palmer Hospital for Children. Today she
is a healthy, happy nine-year-old!
Each year, Children’s Miracle Network
Hospitals chooses one remarkable
miracle child to represent each state
during what is called Champion Week.
These Champion Children have faced
October 2014
Date Auction 2013
Countdown to Knight-Thon
The big day is in 170 days!
Emma
severe medical challenges, yet have
17 million kids treated every
had the courage and perseverance to
year at Children’s Miracle
continue to fight back, against all odds. Network Hospitals.
In 2012 Emma served as the state’s
ambassador for Children’s Miracle
Network Hospitals. As a 2012
Champion Child, Emma went to Walt
Disney World for the Children’s Miracle
Network Hospitals National
Celebration. While there, she met other
Champion Children from around the
U.S. and Canada who have also faced
medical challenges. In addition, Emma
and her family traveled to Washington
D.C. with the Champions where they
met President Obama, met with
Congressmen, conducted media
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interviews, and raised awareness for
the
Pre Med AMSA is the team with
the most points thus far!
Congratulations to team
captain Francesca Castro for
being an incredible leader for
your team. Their goal is to place
1st in the RSO category this
year. We love your
determination!
FUNDRAISING
IDEAS
Send an email straight from
your Donor Drive account!
You don’t even have to write
the email yourself. Donor
Drive has a template that is
ready to send to all friends
and family. All it takes is
gathering some email
addresses, and then the
click of a button!
And we can keep track of
every email sent! Each email
sent through Donor Drive
will earn your team 6 points!
DANCER NEWS
Thank you for coming to
4Rivers 4the Kids
Knight-Thon is expanding
to local schools!
Over 300 people signed in to
our partial proceeds at
4Rivers on Monday, October
6th! All day long, people were
lining up at the door to get
their delicious brisket and
pulled pork sandwiches.
This year, Knight-Thon is
expanding our Mini Dance
Marathon Program! A Mini
Dance Marathon is a DM that
is hosted by a high school,
and the money raised all
goes into our final total. Last
year, we had one Mini DM at
Melbourne Central Catholic
HS, and it raised over
$11,500!
What Knight-Thon event
would be complete without
our Miracle Kids? Everyone
got to see some adorable
faces running around, and
decorating cupcakes!
The fun didn’t stop there! An
intense cornhole competition
commenced at 6pm.
Congratulations to the
winners, Phi Delta Theta!
We are also looking for
elementary, middle, and high
schools to host small-scale
fundraisers as well. Anything
from a partial proceeds, to a
Miracle Jeans Day, or even a
carnival!
If you have any contacts at
local schools, or know a
school that may be
interested, please contact
our Mini DM Director, Julia
Hanusa, at
[email protected].
Dancer Spotlight
HAILLE HARDISON
Haille is the team captain for
Zeta Tau Alpha. When we
asked why she is FTK, she
said, “I have an internship at
the Heart Center doing
research for Pediatric
Congenital Heart Disease.
Seeing the children and
knowing I can make a
difference in their lives is
truly amazing.” And her
favorite part of Knight-Thon
is meeting the miracle
children and hearing their
stories.
Keep up with the amazing
work, Haille. It is absolutely
inspiring that you get to work
with our miracle children
every day at your internship.
If you see Haille around
campus, give her a high-5 for
being such a hard worker.
Don’t stop motivating your
team to be as FTK as
possible! You go, girl!
WHO’S IN THE
LEAD?
Greek
Alpha Epsilon Phi
1,064
Theta Chi
758
Pi Beta Phi
744
Beta Theta Pi
672
Alpha Xi Delta
478
RSOs
Pre Med AMSA
318
Phi Delta Epsilon
274
Honor’s Congress
224
Office & Departments
Volunteer UCF
146
LEAD Scholars
108
Campus Activities Board
36
Our Leadership Team and
Miracle Kids at 4Rivers!
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For more information about this
newsletter, contact Kelly Lippman at
[email protected]
OUR MISSION
The mission of Knight-Thon, the University of Central
Florida’s Dance Marathon, is to educate, inspire, and
unite our campus and community to provide ongoing
support for Greater Orlando Children’s Miracle Network
Hospitals. Through our efforts, we will forever stand for
the families we are privileged to serve.
For The Kids We Are.