{"id":3537,"date":"2022-04-27T06:50:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T02:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=3537"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:46:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:46:54","slug":"evening-walkathon-draws-crowd-of-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2022\/04\/27\/evening-walkathon-draws-crowd-of-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Walkathon draws crowd of 60"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Haidy Abdelazim<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 American University of Sharjah faculty and staff members participated in the Get Active for Education #25for25 Initiative, Walkathon, sponsored by Crescent Petroleum and Emaar on Wednesday, April 20.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Walkathon began at 9 p.m. from the Sports Pavilion building where around 60 faculty and staff members took part in walking a total distance of 3km.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Comfortable or activewear attire was advised for apparel with appropriate shoes for walking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students also participated in this event, as they were stationed throughout the route to help coordinate the Walkathon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEveryone was happy, the event was really helpful and motivating for people to walk together,\u201d said AUS student Nadine Wehbe. \u201cI had so much fun being a part of this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Participants were welcome to attend the final matches of the 7&#215;7 football tournament taking place at the Sports Pavilion after the Walkathon ended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A water station was provided throughout the route, and fruit snacks were provided at the end of the Walkathon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Haidy Abdelazim UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 American University of Sharjah faculty and staff members participated in the Get Active for Education #25for25 Initiative, Walkathon, sponsored by Crescent Petroleum and Emaar on Wednesday, April 20.&nbsp; The Walkathon began at 9 p.m. from the Sports Pavilion building where around 60 faculty and staff members took part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,35,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-3537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-aus","9":"tag-clubs","10":"tag-community"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}