Can Castles Contest Kicks off Greek Week Events

Delta Gamma and Kappa Sigma planning their can castle design
Photo by: Lianna Cabrera

All of this year's exciting and competitive 2011 Greek Week events are off and running. And as always it will be a week filled with great events that will bring out lots of spirit from all of the different teams. The first event, which took place today from 11-2pm at Beach Circle, was the can castles war.

Can castle building requires each team to either buy or donate as many cans as they possibly can and create a design based on their team superhero or about greek week itself. Whoever can collect the most cans and have the most creative designs will win greek week points for their team. Each team is given about 2 hours to create whatever design they want, and then the greek week committee along with the greek advisor Caitlin Roberts will decide the winners. One greek member, Kirsten Ratliff of Alpha Phi said, "Can castles are always my favorite because you can get creative and really get to know your greek week team better". After the judging is over, all of the cans are donated to a local rescue mission.

Alpha Phi member Kirsten Ratliff guarding cans for her team
Photo By: Lianna Cabrera

The event had a great turn out and numerous bags and boxes full of canned food. But nothing compared to the car loads of cans that were brought in by Delta Gamma and Kappa Sigma, who ultimately ended up winning the competition. Greek week committee member Becca Bowdey said, "It was an extremely successful day for all the greek week teams, and we're excited to see this kind of participation continue". Overall, the event brought out a large majority of the greek community and they were able to donate over 3000 cans.