OLS student and Purdue alums game to raise $11K for Child's Play charity

Brian Brinegar, OLS student, recently coordinated a 57-hour video gaming marathon, which raised more than $11,000 for Child’s Play charity. The charity provides toys and games for children’s hospitals around the world, including Riley Hospital in Indianapolis.

Among the other participants were John Groth, Purdue alumnus and network administrator for TCN, and Purdue alumnus Dan May.

“Three of us played all the major Super Mario Brothers video games and broadcasted the event live over the Internet from Friday, June 27 in the afternoon and ended sometime Monday around 12:30 am,” said Groth. “On average, we had 2,000 or more people watching the feed at any time and over 600 donors to the charity.”

Donors were linked from the Super Mario Marathon Web site --www.mariomarathon.com -- directly to the Child's Play charity, www.childsplaycharity.org.

“We are exhausted from the event, but very grateful for the overwhelming response from the online and gaming community and their generous donations to Child's Play,” said Groth. “We also had lots of support from our friends and family, including our supervisors at work since we needed a day off to catch up on sleep.”

Links:
www.mariomarathon.co