I raised just over $2,000, by getting local businesses to sponsor us by purchasing advertisements. And Then purchased 550 t-shirts for the students, volunteers, and staff participating with the money raised. A week before Color Games, however, there was a shooting in the next town over. A student who had graduated the previous spring had been killed, and the town was shocked. The funeral was scheduled on the same day as Color Games. My G-Mail inbox was overflowing with emails from teachers telling me that they would be attending the funeral and not the Color Games. I began to panic as the date crept closer, reaching out to friends to volunteer and fill the spots of these teachers.
In addition to the funeral, the forecast predicted rain all day long. Now we had to take all the planning for an outdoor event and move it all indoors with only a few days to spare. With the help of other Seeds from around the state, we crammed every event into the school: floor hockey in the hallway, corn hole in the library, and frisbees flying in the atrium. We even brought the largest event, a relay race with over seventy parts, inside the