A member of Purdue Sigma Chi reached out to us with one of the coolest projects we’ve seen.

He explained that a team of the guys will honor Xavier Somerville who passed away in 2012 with The Xavier Project. Here’s the description from the website:

September 3rd, 2012 we all tragically lost a son, brother, and a best friend to an accident. With the love he had for life, and the joy he shared with people, Xavier has made such an impact on us all, and we want to take this opportunity to honor him and pay forward all he has done for us. We have been trying to figure out a fitting way to do so, and this is how we came up with The Xavier Project. Our plan is for our team of four to travel the country in a RV over the summer of 2015, to all different college cities. We have a mapped out route planned that includes stopping at 14 colleges, ranging from Eugene, Oregon, to Gainesville, Florida. At each stop, we will spend the first of the five days, going around interviewing those we meet along the way, asking them one question, “If you had one week to impact the rest of someone’s life, what would you do?” This is the basis behind the entire project, us helping people we meet along the way make an impact on someone, or a group of people’s lives. We will come together at night after the first day to discuss and decide whom we think we could help create the greatest impact. The following four days will then be spent carrying out the plan of helping the selected individual make an impact. We plan on recording our journey and turning it into a documentary as a tribute to the impact Xavier has had on our lives. On top of that, we will have a blog and social media campaign leading up to, and during our travels, so people can follow our story all summer long. We strongly feel that this project will shed positive light to the life lived by our pledge brother, Xavier Somerville, and it is something he would be proud of. We hope that you agree, and would be interested in helping us begin this journey.