School Events

Many of the local schools participate in a variety of fund-raisers for The Four Diamonds Fund at Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital. The most popular events are school mini-THONS, which replicate Penn State’s Dance Marathon on a smaller scale. There are even elementary school children participating in one-hour mini-THONS. If your school would like to organize a fund-raiser or learn more about how to plan an organize a Four Diamonds mini-THON to benefit our pediatric oncology patients at Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital, please contact the Four Diamonds office at 717-531-6086.

2010-2011 Four Diamonds Mini-thons

Thank you to all the schools that participated in Four Diamonds mini-thons during 2009-2010!  Four Diamonds mini-thons raised more than $975,000!

  • Annville-Cleona Middle School & High School
  • Avon Grove Area Senior High School
  • Big Spring High School
  • Bishop McDevitt High School
  • Boyertown Area High School
  • Cedar Crest Middle School
  • Central Dauphin High School
  • Chambersburg High School
  • Cheltenham High School
  • Conewago Valley Intermediate School
  • Cumberland Valley High School
  • Dauphin County 4-H Teen Council
  • Dallas High School
  • Dover Area High School
  • Eastern York High School
  • Easton Area Middle School
  • Ephrata High School/Garden Spot High School/Cocalico High School
  • Garnet Valley High School
  • Governor Mifflin High School
  • Hamilton Heights Elementary School
  • Hanover High School
  • Hempfield High School
  • Hershey High School
  • Huntingdon Area Senior High School
  • Jim Thorpe High School
  • Kennard-Dale High School
  • Kittaning Senior High School
  • Lake Lehman High School
  • Lampeter-Strasburg High School
  • Lancaster Catholic High School
  • Littlestown High School
  • Lower Dauphin High School
  • Lower Moreland High School
  • Manheim Central High School
  • Manheim Township High School
  • Mechanicsburg High School
  • Mechanicsburg Middle School
  • Northampton HIgh School
  • Northern High School
  • Northside Elementary School
  • Palmyra High School
  • Park Forest Middle School
  • Red Lion High School
  • Scranton High School
  • Simon Butler Elementary School - 6th Grade
  • Southern Middle School
  • South Western High School
  • Springfield High School
  • Spring Grove Middle School
  • Susquehanna Township High School
  • Susquenita High School
  • Trinity High School
  • Tunkhannock Area Middle School
  • Upper Dauphin High School
  • Waynesboro Area High School
  • Westmont Hilltop High School
  • Woodlyne School

 Do you know of a school interested in starting a Four Diamonds mini-thon?  Contact Linda Barry, Four Diamonds Assistant Director, at 717-531-1317 or by email at lbarry@psu.edu, to help you get started.