Turner’s philanthropy, Invisible Children, had their campus wide screening of the “KONY 2012” movie. Turner also had a strong Relay for Life team made up of a total of 30 people and was one of the biggest teams at Relay. And finally Turner recognized people and events that occurred throughout the year by writing 5 award bids for RHA.

Turner's philanthropy, Invisible Children, hosted a highly successful screening of the film "KONY 2012". The Invisible Children committee was able to have a roadie team from Invisible children come to campus and talk about the recent events that Invisible Children have done. Many students from all over campus came to the Panorama Room at the University Center and were able to watch the most recent Invisible Children film. Everyone that came was encouraged to continue spreading the word about the war crimes committed by Joseph Kony. This event opened people’s eyes to the events that are happening in Central Africa and everyone was able to gain a better understanding of what Invisible Children stand for and the work that they do. It also motivated everyone in attendance to help out any way they can to spread the word about Kony so that he can be put to justice.

Turner had one of the biggest relay teams, filling up two whole teams. Since Turner's relay team was so big we were able to split up into different committees in order to tackle the three main tasks that needed to be completed. People from the relay team were able to choose from three committees; banner committee, cake committee, and camp site committee. Each committee was able to create excellent cakes, banner, and camp site for judging. Two residents from the relay team also organized a car wash to help raise money for the Turner team; the car wash ended up making $405! As a whole team Turner raised $1022 and made this year’s Relay for Life a giant success.

March is award bid time at UNC, and Turner Hall took on bids head on. There are a total of 7 bid categories and Turner wrote bids for 5 out of the 7 categories. A total of 8 people wrote/helped with the bid writing process with a number of residents that provided quotes for all of the bids. As a team Turner organized “bid parties” where everyone got together and worked on their bids and help give feedback on other bids when needed. The first bid party night ended up turning into a pizza party as well and made bid writing much more fun for everyone involved. Having these bid parties help people make high quality bids and also helped people bond with one another and create new friendships. Whether it was a quote for a bid or actually writing a bid many people from Turner had a part in the bid process.

In the month of March Turner was a bid presence on the UNC campus by hosting events and attending them as well. Residents of Turner were able to make even stronger bonds with each other than they had before and took advantage of leadership opportunities that were presented to them. The month of March helped show that Turner is one of the tightest communities on campus.

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