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IPFW's Love Your Melon Ambassadors Join In Battle Against Pediatric Cancer

89.1 WBOI | By Julia Meek
Published November 18, 2016 at 6:48 PM EST
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IPFW's Love Your Melon Ambassadors are part of the over 11,000 member network, all dedicated to improving the lives of children battling cancer.
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Ambassadors with their young hero, Jet, enjoying a day with IPFW's Mastadons.
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Jet posing for the crowd with Don the Mastodon
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Taylor DePoy, an IPFW business major, is proud of Love Your Melon's online sales success.

"Love Your Melon"is an apparel brand dedicated to giving a hat to every child battling cancer in America, as well as financially supporting pediatric cancer research.

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To education major, Kailey Allen, it's a big honor to give a young cancer patient a few hours of fun and excitement.

Founded in 2012, as an Entrepreneurship class project by two students from the University of St. Thomasin St. Paul, Minnesota, it now enlists over 11,000 student ambassadors across the country, at 740 different colleges and universities, through its Campus Crew Program.

Earlier this week, WBOI's Julia Meek invited IPFW crew members Taylor DePoy and Kailey Allen into the studio, to discuss the benefits such a project affords the community, and the crew itself.

Learn more about IPFW's Love Your Melon Campus Crew on its Facebook page.
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Julia Meek
A Fort Wayne native, Julia is a radio host, graphic artist, and community volunteer, who has contributed to NIPR both on- and off-air for forty years. Besides being WBOI's arts & culture reporter, she currently co-produces and hosts Folktales and Meet the Music.
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