"There's one girl from our group who is going to play the Simon part," John Curry, an organizer of the event, said. "She's going to be good at that. She won't say anything too offensive, but if it looks like someone can take some criticism, she'll lay it out."
Curry said only 10 people have signed up to compete so far.
"We really were shooting for a lot more than that," he said. "We're kind of hoping we can recruit people last minute."
Students who want to perform must pay a $5 donation, which will benefit the Centre County chapter of Big Brother/Big Sister, a teen mentoring program.
The event was organized by Donnie Horner's STS 497B class (Creativity, Innovation and Change), a component of the engineering leadership development minor. Explaining the title of the course, Horner said, "They learn about these concepts first, then they devise a way to measure creativity, innovation and change. Then the third phase of the course is [to] now go do it."
Students in the course must accomplish this task by organizing a service-based leadership project.
"Eventually it has to better the community somehow," Curry said.
As a result, all money made from the event will be donated to Big Brother/Big Sister. In fact, the way audience members vote for their favorite contestants is by donating money. The performer who earns the most donations wins.
Curry said he also hopes to recruit future mentors.
"We're going to have pamphlets there, and we'll probably throw in some ads for them," he said.
Time: 5 p.m.
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