Dayton Daily News: Wright State and Dayton will be bustling with Big Hoopla events

Wright State University’s growing partnership with the Big Hoopla was highlighted in a Dayton Daily News article about the events surrounding the NCAA First Four.

Wright State will help kickoff the First Four when it hosts the Hoopla 4 Miler and the Big Hoopla’s STEM Challenge on Sunday, March 16.

More than 200 people have registered for the annual road race, its highest registration ever since its inception in 2012, organizers told the Dayton Daily News.

Wright State will also host the 2025 Big Hoopla STEM Challenge for students in kindergarten through eighth grade on Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. in the Student Union.

Students can register for the STEM Challenge at daytonhoopla.com/hoopla-stem-challenge.

Wright State University will award full in-state tuition scholarships to 12 students who participate in the Big Hoopla STEM Challenge. Eight will be basketball shootout winners: a male and female student in each grade division (K–2, 3–4, 5–6, and 7–8). Four additional winners will be randomly selected through a raffle.

Students must complete 80% of the STEM passport to be eligible for a Wright State scholarship.

The STEM Challenge, which started with 250 people in 2014, continues to grow each year and event organizers have changed venues to accommodate that growth. By Monday afternoon, nearly 800 students had registered for this year’s STEM Challenge.

“With the scholarships, it gets a lot more attention,” Slaybaugh told the Dayton Daily News. “We’re actually going to close registration at 1,500.”

Read the article at daytondailynews.com.