{"id":1640,"date":"2021-09-07T15:58:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T15:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2021-10-26T16:39:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T16:39:12","slug":"chi-omega-at-troy-university-holds-lip-sync-battle-to-benefit-make-a-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2021\/09\/07\/chi-omega-at-troy-university-holds-lip-sync-battle-to-benefit-make-a-wish\/","title":{"rendered":"Chi Omega at Troy University holds Lip Sync Battle to benefit Make-A-Wish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/troy.edu\">Troy University<\/a> student organizations helped Chi Omega sorority raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation by showing off their musical abilities without singing a note. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chi Omega held a Lip Sync Battle at the Janice Hawkins Park Amphitheater as a part of their Wish Week activities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wish Week is a week&#8217;s worth of activities designed to raise money for the sorority&#8217;s philanthropy project, Make-A-Wish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lip Sync Battle had the student groups dancing and miming to popular songs in choreographed on-stage routines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It was so exciting,&#8221; says participant Beth Williamson. &#8220;I was actually really nervous because I&#8217;ve never performed in front. I was never a dancer or anything so it was really fun. I&#8217;m really proud of my backup dancers.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Events like this help the sorority do their part to grant wishes to children at the local level. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an amazing organization and we&#8217;ve helped Make-A-Wish Alabama the last I don&#8217;t know how many years but we always are able to grant one wish for them,&#8221; says Chi Omega sister Maggie Rodopolous. &#8220;This past semester we were able to grant two wishes which was over 22 thousand dollars. So we did incredible this year and we&#8217;re hoping to meet or exceed that amount as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the full story watch Simon&#8217;s report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troy University student organizations helped Chi Omega sorority raise money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation by showing off their musical abilities without singing a note. <\/p>\n<p>Chi Omega held a Lip Sync Battle at the Janice Hawkins Park Amphitheater as a part of their Wish Week activities. <\/p>\n<p>Wish Week is a week&#8217;s worth of activities&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2021\/09\/07\/chi-omega-at-troy-university-holds-lip-sync-battle-to-benefit-make-a-wish\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":1642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[644,642,643,647,645,740],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-1640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-beth-williamson","tag-chi-omega","tag-maggie-rodopolous","tag-make-a-wish","tag-savana-griffin","tag-simon-schuessler"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}