On a chilly February morning in UCSC’s Quarry Plaza, we came together to raise awareness and some funds for the Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative, the pediatric cancer research arm of the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute. Staff members Ann Durbin and Katrina Learned were aided by two student members of the Treehouse team, 2nd year Preet Kaur and 3rd year, Stephanie Dittrich, who joined just in time to help organize this event. Steph and Preet met representatives from exciting organizations also involved in Giving Day 2018, including Engineers Without Borders and Sigma Mu Delta. Our collaborators from UCSC’s WiSE (Pauline Blaimont and Tori Klein) worked with us to carry out strawberry DNA extractions — always a hit!
At the end of the 24-hour period, we’d given out dozens of our new brochures, shared delicious cookies donated by the good folks at Pacific Cookie Company, made new friends from all over campus, and raised over $3000 in donations from 23 supporters. All the moneys raised support our mission: to promote sharing of the world’s genomic data, and harness that data to defeat every child’s cancer.
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