Last night (and today) was the 12-hour ASUC-sponsored Dance Marathon at Cal (http://dancemarathon.berkeley.edu). The event raised money for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Students registered and solicited donations. They were given a number of raffle tickets based on their level of donations, and there were prize drawings throughout the 8pm Friday to 8am Saturday event. I’m not sure of the final amount of money the event raised, but I know it was well over double what they earned last year.

The Scholar’s Workstation was one of the sponsors of the event and my fellow Apple Campus Reps and I put on a photo shoot in order to support their efforts. We set up a white backdrop and lights, took photos of students in front of them, and then edited the photos there on Macs with Adobe Creative Suite 3 in order to create silhouette photo souveniers. All of them included a custom background image that picked up the “World Tour” theme of the Dance Marathon and included a link to our website.

Everyone seemed to like the photos and we were able to talk with quite a few people as they watched us creating them on the Macs. It was a great way to show off a neat thing that Apple computers can do as well as how well the new Creative Suite runs on them.

I took some pictures at the event and I’ve posted them in my photos section. Here’s a link to my Dance Marathon Photos. All of the silouhettes we created are posted online as well.

I think my favorite is the one of Oski:

This afternoon the Nike+ van came to the RSF at Berkeley. It contains a bunch of Nike shoes as well as iPods and sport kits for people to try out. The Apple Campus Reps promoted this on Facebook and with flyers. We had a pretty good turnout and quite a few people who were walking by to go to the RSF stopped and checked out the product.

We were giving away a bunch of t-shirts that Nike sent us. They were designed so that people could write their “Power Song” on them (a “power song” is something that you listen to in order to get you over the hump of a tough part of your workout). The only problem with the shirts was that they were all red — “Stanford red” — and I thought they wouldn’t be that popular. I was wrong, people seemed to really like them.

The Nike + iPod Sport Kit is a really neat product, Apple’s Nike + iPod Website