{"id":5720,"date":"2024-04-10T19:20:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T19:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=5720"},"modified":"2024-04-10T19:20:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T19:20:48","slug":"students-donate-thousands-of-items-during-can-castle-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/04\/10\/students-donate-thousands-of-items-during-can-castle-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Students donate thousands of items during Can Castle Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/academics\/academic-resources\/center-student-success\/office-of-civic-engagement\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROY&#8217;s Office of Civic Engagement<\/a> hosted its annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/academics\/academic-resources\/center-student-success\/office-of-civic-engagement\/can-castle.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Can Castle Contest<\/a> on the Tailgate Plaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the 13th year in a row, the Office of Civic Engagement challenged students to fight hunger in Pike County, one castle at a time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We use this as a way to  get students engaged in issues in our community&#8221; said Lauren Cochran, of the Office of Civic Engagement. &#8220;The food insecurity rate in Pike County is 20% and often food insecurity impacts youth in the community more than any other demographic.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/03\/04\/poverty-simulation-helps-students-understand-those-struggling-with-low-income\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>MORE:<\/strong> Poverty Simulation helps students understand those struggling with low income<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year&#8217;s contest saw seven teams raise nearly 6,000 donated items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Awards were given to three groups:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Best Castle Design: Newman Ministry <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Best Castle Design in the Greek Division: Alpha Gama Delta<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Most Items Collected: Chi Omega<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Items that were donated during the Can Castle Contest will be used to supply the Office of Civic Engagement&#8217;s Backpack for Kids program. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 TROY&#8217;s Office of Civic Engagement hosted its annual Can Castle Contest on the Tailgate Plaza.<\/p>\n<p>For the 13th year in a row, the Office of Civic Engagement challenged students to fight hunger in Pike County, one castle at a time. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We use this as a way to get students engaged&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2024\/04\/10\/students-donate-thousands-of-items-during-can-castle-contest\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":5743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[1482,1245],"topics":[17],"class_list":["post-5720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-can-castle-contest","tag-office-of-civic-engagement","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5720","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5720"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=5720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}