ISU managed to win two contests at once with their submission for this year’s Pink Glove Dance competition.

The video that Ames and ISU community health care providers produced not only won third place in the national competition, it also scored second place in a sub-contest hosted by School Health Corporation.

“In our video, we had two schools, ISU and Ames High School, which made us eligible for a separate division of the contest,” said Jason Mortvedt, digital communications specialist at Mary Greeley Medical Center.

Bryan Ball, Midwest territory manager of School Health Corporation, said that this sub-competition was a great way to give something back to the video contributors.

“ISU did an excellent job, they did an excellent job. Everything from start to finish was really well done,” Ball said. “You can tell that a lot of time and effort went into that.”

School Health Corporation awarded both Ames High School and Iowa State with $375 each.

Samantha Boyd, communications specialist at the student health center said that the money will be donated to Colleges Against Cancer.

“They are strongly associated with ISU and contributed to the video as well,” Boyd said. “They will give the money to the American Cancer Association.”

Fellows Elementary School Principal Carol Page accepted the other $375 on behalf of the nursing services of Ames High School.

“It’s wonderful. Public schools are always struggling with budgetary issues,” Page said. “Every little bit helps us.”

Both the Mary Greeley Medical Center and the McFarland Clinic helped produce the video. Mortvedt said that it was a great community effort that brought all the communities together.

“We even had people involved in the production of the video who underwent cancer treatment when we were shooting the video,” Mortvedt said. “They said that it was so fun and uplifting; it brought them pure joy.”

Mortvedt said during the competition, there were people whose family members were constantly voting for ISU’s video.

“We were up against some pretty big health system groups, so we are pretty happy about our ranking.”

Colleges Against Cancer was very surprised to learn that the $375 would be donated to them, said President Kelsey McCarty, senior in food science.

“We just did a small part for the Pink Glove Dance video and didn’t expect to get the money afterwards. That was really awesome and it helps the American Cancer Society so much,” McCarty said.

For Samantha Boyd, the video represents that the Ames community and the university work really well together.

“It’s good relationships like these, that make such projects so much easier and so successful,” Boyd said.