ABC World News with Diane Sawyer was at THON filming all weekend. Tonight on the 'America Strong' segment from 6:30-7:00 p.m., they'll be unveiling the coverage for a national audience. They spent the weekend following one of the Four Diamonds families and shot some wonderful footage of the event throughout.
As it turns out, the app we were using maxes out at 110 dBA. The unified roar got to that easily, but because it was sustained, the app crashed, meaning we may have broken the 137.6 dBa world record for unified yell. We'll never really be sure, but it's better to believe, isn't it?
The CEO of Penn State Hershey Medical Center penned a letter of thanks to all those who helped THON raise a whopping $13,343,517.33 For The Kids. This brings the total donated to the Four Diamonds Fund since 1977 to more than $114 million.
There are obvious hashtags that go hand-in-hand with THON across Twitter, Facebook and Instgram -- #THON, #THON[insert year here] and #FTK are some big ones. So the Penn State IST Consulting Group tasked itself with recording the social media activity surrounding THON, and the results are both cool and expected.
That noise you hear is the gauntlet being thrown down from down south.
While the Bryce Jordan Center was filled to capacity and the THON total was being revealed on the opposite side of campus, the wrestling team was taking care of business at Rec Hall, the previous site of THON, as it took down Clarion, 43-3.