Over the past few years, CHS has held a fundraising event called “Minivictorthon,” or “MVT.” MVT is an event with fun games like extreme volleyball, and other events held to help fun raise money for the Mott’s Children hospital. MVT has been changing to ensure that people participate in the fundraising event. These changes bring the question of what will happen to MVT in the future?
“MVT is a fundraiser from U of M, and it's for Mott’s Children,” sophomore Eden Bourland said. “We have to try to figure out what's going to get a lot of people to come in, what's going to raise us the most money, how we can keep people's attention, and not let them get super bored during the event.”
The student council has expressed the importance of MVT because it’s a fundraiser for a children’s hospital. Because MVT is a fundraiser, it makes MVT different from other school events such as sporting events.
“Like a basketball game, when you're paying to get into the event, all of the money that you're paying to get to the event goes directly towards Mott’s Children's Hospital, which is different from any other sporting events here,” sophomore Landry Cook said.
The difference between other school events and MVT is that while school events take the money that they earn in that event to fund for the school while MVT uses the money that they earn in that event to fund for Children’s Mott hospital.
“We work within the school district. We have a bunch of committees on Student Council, community outreach, and district outreach, and just like the actual event itself,” Cook said.
Although they have outreach, they still want to push more people to go to MVT for fundraising. Student council members talk about what they are going to change to get people to attend MVT.
“I think we're gonna start reaching out more to the community and businesses to try to get them to help out more, because it's for a really good cause,” Bourland said.
The main change this year was to entice people to come to MVT because of extreme volleyball happening at a different time than other years before.
“Originally, extreme volleyball was scheduled a couple weeks before Minivictorthon as its own event, like it has in the past, but this year, with conflicts with getting extreme volleyball, we decided to do it right before Minivictorthon, almost to get more people there. More people showed up due to extreme volleyball, but more people left afterwards. We didn't keep the crowd around,” senior Kaydee Absher said.
