Archive for April, 2016

Volunteers, sponsors, race starters and beneficiaries gathered Thursday evening at GCU Golf Course for the first-ever Run to Fight 2016 Superhero Awards Banquet. Debbie Accomazzo, GCU’s community outreach manager and the race director, gave a special thanks to the top fundraising teams for their continuing support of the GCU Foundation Run to Fight Children’s Cancer.

Photos by Jeannette Cruz GCU News Bureau The only thing better than the barbecue dinner Thursday night in the Lope House at Grand Canyon University Golf Course was the cause — the first Run to Fight 2016 Superhero Awards Banquet. And then there was the effect — checks for $42,000 were given to Phoenix Children’s Hospital and the Children’s Cancer Network. Race director Debbie Accomazzo was joined at the podium by this year’s honorary race starter, Emma Kerr, and her sister, Abby.          

This week’s edition of Antelope Intros features two creative and heartwarming individuals who strive to be peacemakers through faith, volunteer work and rescuing of furry friends.

The Canyon Challenge was so even Wednesday night, the five entrepreneurial teams that qualified for the finals all won prizes. First place in the judges’ voting went to Raffle Boss, followed by TailSpace and Near. But even though it didn’t make the judges’ top three, Own Wood won the online vote.

Three Canyon Challenge teams won prizes in the recent Arizona Collegiate Venture Competition, in which GCU participated for the first time. Storage Together was a Silver Level Winner and earned $3,500, and Near and TailSpace both were Copper Level Winners and won $1,500. The latter two are among the five finalists that will be competing in the Canyon Challenge.

Nearly three dozen dancers will bring the Spring Dance Concert, “Giving Voice,” to life in performances Friday and Saturday at Ethington Theatre. Tickets are still available for the energetic, beautiful moving symphony created by GCU’s talented dancers and their faculty choreographers.

GCU Center for Worship Arts students have produced “Canyon Worship 2016,” featuring 10 contemporary songs, eight of which represent original compositions.

It wasn’t just that the performances were so good Monday night in the Canyon Worship Songwriters Spring Showcase, it was that they were so varied. Students exhibited a variety of musical styles to a big crowd of peers, parents and University leaders, and the effect was palpable. “I was moved the whole night,” one parent said. “It was going through me, around me, coming out of me.”

In their final Speech and Debate Showcase of the 2015-16 academic year, students presented riveting, provocative topics that reminded the packed audience in the Colangelo College of Business why the three-year-old team has become a national success story. The speeches, performed two days before the team leaves for the National Forensics Association Championships at Ball State University in Indiana, made spectators laugh, cry and, in the end, applaud.

      Several faculty  members from GCU’s College of Science, Engineering and Technology were judges  at the Arizona Science and Engineering Fair (AzSEF) at the Phoenix Convention Center.