Mayor Don Hahn spoke to the dancers on the THON stage to kick off the weekend well. As a former THON dancer, Hahn inspired all of the BJC and will be renaming State College the "City of THON" at 6 p.m. Friday.
The four donation stations this year are decorated as the most popular Pixar movies. Make your way to any of them if you want to make a donation for the kids.
Dancers are officially in the building, sections are starting to fill up with the various orgs, and now the THON countdown has ticked down to less than an hour.
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Women's soccer's Megan Schafer and football's Charlie Shuman are back for another 46 hours on the floor. They'll be joined by women's soccer's Sarafina Valenti, field hockey's Delani Higgins, and men's golf's Connor Raeman. There will also be two athlete dancers outside of SAAB -- football's Nick Scott and softball's Kristina Brackpool.
"We've really tried to bring the community together in new ways throughout the year. We've really tried to expand on our events and make sure that we are doing our best to be inclusive and bring everyone into the THON community."