Actually, We Can! Blue Balloon Challenge

Actually, We Can! Blue Balloon Challenge

Could you keep a balloon in the air all day, every day?

Actually, We Can! is a Brock Leaders Citizenship Society volunteer-led initiative aiming to start conversations about type 1 diabetes \(T1D\) during National Diabetes Awareness Month, which is the month of November. The Blue Balloon Challenge aims to make the invisible realities of living with T1D visible by having participants keep a blue balloon up in the air while trying to complete an everyday task like reading a page of a book, sending an email, or walking down a hallway. The challenge of multitasking in this way simulates the multitasking that a type 1 diabetic is doing every moment of every day to manage their healthcare while also fulfilling other roles, such as being a student.

Actually, We Can! will be taking place on Monday, November 16th, in the Thistle hallway from 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM. It will be right after World Diabetes Day, which is November 14th. The goals of the challenge are to raise awareness for T1D and start conversations about T1D mental health.

From

Monday, November 16, 2026 2:00 PM

to

4:00 PM EST

at

Brock University.