Many students showed their artistic side while helping a good cause at the canned food creations competition Wednesday.
While cans were being loaded out of the cars, the students plotted their composition. Leadership Affairs, Honors College, Alpha Phi Alpha, Leadership House, POLO and SGA, Alpha Sigma Iota, and Admissions Ambassadors were just some of the organizations that participated. Alpha Delta Pi and Pi Kappa Delta’s design really engulfed the Buccaneer Round-Up theme of Homecoming.
“Were building a saloon approximately three-fourths the size of the one from the carnival,” said digital media senior Alex Johnston. “We are building a bar and we are going to be serving root beer out of it, it will be fun!”
Alpha Phi Omega and Lambda Chi Alpha teamed up along with Kappa Sigma and Alpha Xi Delta.
“We are building Bucky popping out of an amazing barrel with a lasso and a tumble weed,” said Delta interior design major Margaret Puglisi.
The judges are from Second Harvest, also where the teams can’s will be donated.
“The judging should start as soon as the people from Second Harvest get here and gradually as the teams finish their designs, that way they can take adequate enough time to choose the winners,” said the chair of this event and pre-med student Alisha Dotson. “There are two different awards; most first, second, and third place for most money collected, and also best creation and there is also a first through third place.”
Sigma Kappa and Sigma Phi Epsilon’s intricate design exhibited their dedication to this event and to winning.
“I think Sigma Kappa really enjoys Canned Food Creation because it’s a great way to show off our creativity and feeding people in need for the holidays,” said public relations senior Amber Keesecker. Canned Food Creations let students who don’t consider themselves artists to try their hand at this eccentric type of “sculpture.”
The winners, announced at skit night on Friday, were Sigma Kappa and Sigma Phi Epsilon.

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