UF will hold a "Festival of Life" and try to break a world record Dec. 3 to promote organ donation and awareness.
The festival is in honor of UF's Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Day and is hosted by Get Carded, a student organization dedicated to providing information about organ and tissue donation.
The festival will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and the green ribbon event will begin at 1 p.m.
Participants will attempt to create the world's largest human green ribbon as they stand on the Reitz Union North Lawn holding green balloons.
Florida Atlantic University holds the current record with 689 people.
About 300 people participated in last year's living green ribbon.
"I got to tell my story and help raise awareness about organ donation," said Elyssa Winston, community outreach chairwoman for Get Carded and a UF event management junior.
Winston received a kidney transplant from her father in January.
"Now that I have been given this amazing gift and second chance at life, I want to do all I can to help others get the same chance I did," she said.
