{"id":22802,"date":"2013-03-29T04:12:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T09:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=22802"},"modified":"2013-03-25T13:01:38","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T18:01:38","slug":"students-register-by-april-6-to-dance-at-rockethon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/03_29_2013\/students-register-by-april-6-to-dance-at-rockethon","title":{"rendered":"Students: Register by April 6 to dance at RockeTHON"},"content":{"rendered":"

The yearly philanthropic 13-hour bash formerly known as UT Dance Marathon got a makeover, which includes a new name.<\/p>\n

\"RockeTHON\"<\/a>Dubbed RockeTHON, this year\u2019s dance marathon will be held from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday, April 20, in the Student Recreation Center.<\/P><\/p>\n

The event is going to be more aggressively promoted through Facebook and Twitter. The goal is to have about 1,000 people compete and raise $100,000. <\/p>\n

Besides the name, the color scheme for RockeTHON has been changed from blue and gold to lime green, so it \u201cdoesn\u2019t get lost in the crowd,\u201d according to Price Murphy, RockeTHON director. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are currently on pace to beat last year\u2019s numbers,\u201d Murphy said. \u201cLast year we had about 625 students participate in the event and raised just about $70,000.\u201d<\/p>\n

All money raised is donated to the Children\u2019s Miracle Network, which disperses the proceeds locally to Mercy Children\u2019s Hospital. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are the largest student-run philanthropy on campus,\u201d Murphy said. \u201cSince 2001, we have raised nearly $500,000. That is pretty impressive for an organization that has been around for just over a decade.\u201d<\/p>\n

To make students realize the importance of the event, 23 families will share their miracle stories.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s activities will include live entertainment by local bands Halero and Clark and Danko. There also will be an obstacle course for teams composed of student organization members to compete for \u201cspirit points,\u201d and there will be special prizes for those who accrue the most points at the end of the night.<\/p>\n

And there will be a dance lesson each hour. <\/p>\n

\u201cBy the time the 13 hours are up, everyone will know the whole dance,\u201d Murphy said. \u201cAn instructor will be teaching probably over 700 people at a time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The theme of this year\u2019s RockeTHON will be \u201cAmerica in 13 hours,\u201d with sub-themes for different events: Wild West, military, rave and Hawaiian beach. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe more people we have there, the more awareness we can raise for the families,\u201d Murphy said. \u201cWhatever people can contribute is great.\u201d<\/p>\n

The deadline to register for RockeTHON is midnight Saturday, April 6.<\/p>\n

Students with inquiries can reach Murphy at price.murphy@rockets.utoledo.edu or check out Facebook.com\/RockeTHON<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just dance! Students need to register for RockeTHON by midnight Saturday, April 6. The dance marathon will take place Saturday, April 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":563,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}