Campaign Wiz Honored At VT

Talented Virginia Tech senior and honors student Christine George isn't your typical graduating student. Nope, she's more the atypical kind.

The kind that, besides spearheading a super-successful AfricaBike fundraiser campaign over the last few months, was recently awarded the 2008 Outstanding Senior in the College of Science for the 2007-2008 academic year http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/story.php?relyear=2008&itemno=285.

The purpose of the award is to recognize outstanding student performance in each college of the university. Students are selected on the basis of their quality credit average (3.4 or higher on a 4.0 scale) and outstanding performance in several or all of the following areas: academic achievement, extracurricular activities, leadership positions and contributions of service to the university and/or community. She also reeled in the USA Today’s All-USA College Academic First Team, among numerous other awards and scholarships.

As for her commitment to Kona's Biketown Africa program: Impressive. Christine has raised more than $8,000 through donations and events associated with her fundraising campaign, with sights set on breaking her goal of $10K.

Check her updated progress here.

In other news, generous Biketown and Adopt-a-bike donations keep pouring in. Most recently, the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas sent a kind gesture of $2,500. One of the school's bike enthusiastic faculty members read about the program in the Dec 07 issue of Bicycling magazine and the wheels started turning immediately. Thanks!