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| Engineering students Nick MacMillan,聽 Michael Marchand, Kaylee Shannon, Lynsey Poushay, Adam Cameron and聽Erin Dwyer get聽ready for Pulling for the Kids.聽(Bruce Bottomley Photo) |
For 12 hours straight, Dal students are planning to pull a car around the parking lot at Sexton campus.
Crazy or brilliant? We鈥檙e veering on the side of brilliant since the unusual event raises thousands of dollars for charity.
鈥淚t鈥檚 kind of odd I know,鈥� says Kaylee Shannon, a recent engineering grad and one of the organizers of Pulling for the Kids. 鈥淏ut it鈥檚 fun and you don鈥檛 see many car pulls going on.鈥�
Pulling for the Kids is the Dal Eng鈥檚 major fundraiser. Last year, the undergraduate student society raised more than $8,000 for Camp Triumph, a summer camp for children ages 8 to 17 who are living in families affected by chronic illness or disability. This year, they鈥檙e hoping to raise $10,000 in support of the Halifax Regional Children鈥檚 Aid Foundation.
The event is scheduled to take place on Saturday, February 5 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Participants take turns pulling the cars (there鈥檚 two of them) around the parking lot at the corner of Queen Street and Spring Garden Road in teams for five for 15 minute shifts.
鈥淲e鈥檙e still looking for more participants,鈥� says Ms. Shannon. 鈥淵ou don鈥檛 have to be in engineering and you don鈥檛 necessarily have to be a student. We鈥檇 love staff or faculty to come out too.鈥�
Pulling for the Kids isn鈥檛 the society鈥檚 only fundraiser. Last term, students supported the Salvation Army鈥檚 Angel Tree Fund, CIBC Run for the Cure and the Movember campaign. In fact, society members just returned from the national conference for the Canadian Federation of Engineering Students where they were voted the most charitable engineering society.
鈥淭here鈥檚 great momentum among the students to help out,鈥� says Ms. Shannon.
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