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Shack-a-Thon 2010 is On; Six Management Clubs on College’s Team

Online donations for the college’s team can be made at NC State’s Habitat for Humanity website through Oct. 1. Select the Donate button in the left column of the website, and type in College of Management when the option for the team name pops up on the second page of the online donation form. Donations are also being accepted in Nelson Hall and at the college’s shack – No. 13 on the Brickyard.

Participating clubs this year are: Peer Leaders, Student Ambassadors, Alpha Kappa Psi, Accounting Society, Hamilton Scholars, and NABA, the National Association of Black Accountants. More than 20 students from the clubs worked together Sunday, Sept. 19, to build their ‘home on the Brickyard’ for the week of Sept. 20-25.

The annual event offers plenty of opportunities for ‘lessons learned,’ including the value of good citizenship. That one came on Sunday, when two members of the college’s team – James Robinson and Chris Casey, both College of Management Student Ambassadors – and their ‘construction mentors’ from Rufty Homes helped a nearby team that was struggling with the construction of their shack. “That team made a contribution of $50 to our account for helping them out,” said Alex Penny, one of the team’s organizers.

Members now are taking turns living in their shack 24/7, Monday through Friday, and will be tearing down the structure on Saturday, Sept. 25. Fundraising, however, continues through Oct. 1.

Team members are panhandling at the college’s shack throughout the week, and have a few activities lined up to draw people to their structure. Additional activities are scheduled for Nelson Hall for those who can’t get to the Brickyard. Following is their schedule.

  • COM panhandlers taking donations – Management Shack on the Brickyard
  • Resume Review – Tues & Wed, 10 am – 2 pm – at the Brickyard Shack
  • Bake Sale every day, as long as supplies last, at the Brickyard Shack
  • Bake sale – Tues & Wed, 10 am – 3 pm, Nelson Hall
  • Sleeping bag fundraiser – Mon & Thurs, 10 am – 3 pm, Nelson Hall

Online donations are being set up at the Habitat for Humanity website and will be available later this week. This story will be updated when the online donation option is available. Watch the digital bulletin boards in Nelson Hall for the daily tally toward the team’s fundraising goal.

This is the 20th year for the NC State Shack-a-Thon – and the second year that the college has had a team in the competitive fundraiser. In 2009, the college raised 1,710, earning third place. A total of $17,585.75 was raised by the 16 NC State teams in the competitive event.

The team’s third-place finish in 2009 earned for them the supply of lumber needed to construct this year’s structure. Jon Rufty, member of the College of Management Advisory Board, and several of his Rufty Homes crew members were on site Sunday morning, Sept. 19, to help more than a dozen of the college’s students get off to a good start on the construction of their shack, but the students did the building and painting. By mid-afternoon, they were putting on the finishing touches, and members were back at the structure early Monday morning.

Shack-a-Thon’s history at NC State:

Shack-a-thon was started with one shack on NC State’s Brickyard in 1991 and has occurred every year since, as NC State’s Habitat for Humanity’s annual fall fundraiser.

The event brings out not only Habitat for Humanity club members but many student organizations from college across campus. They take over the Brickyard, building shacks that the students live, sleep, and study in for an entire week. Each group raises money by collecting from people walking through the brickyard or ‘panhandling’ elsewhere.

The Shack-a-thon concludes with a Whack-a-thon, when the shacks are dismantled, on Saturday, Sept. 25.

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Members of the college’s Shack-a-Thon team gathered for a photo on Wednesday afternoon, marking the half-way point in the fundraiser.

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Final Tally – College’s (2009) Shack-a-Thon Team Makes Top Four