After Communication Instructor Charlotte Elder is done teaching class today, she will be bombarded by dodge balls.

Students will throw dodge balls at her for a dollar at the Duck ‘N’ Dodge Tournament at 5 p.m. in Diddle Arena auxiliary gym.

Duck ‘N’ Dodge is a charity event that will help raise money for the Bowling Green Special Olympics, the Plano Elementary fund and the Mark Williams Scholarship fund, a scholarship for recreation majors, said Tournament Coordinator Tammie Stenger.

Elder said she hopes she can encourage other students to give back through her involvement in the tournament.

While Elder and five other professors are dodging balls, a dodgeball tournament will also take place.

The tournament is planned by the students in Recreation 306: Program Planning and Recreation. This is the fourth year for the tournament and eleven teams are signed up. Students can sign up for the single elimination round until 5 p.m.

About four years ago, Stenger suggested that students put on a recreation event for charity. It was right after the movie “Dodgeball” came out, so it was a popular idea and it has stuck ever since.

Stenger likes that the tournament gives students a chance to apply what they learn in the classroom.

Allison Dial, a sophomore from Franklin, Tenn., hopes to work with team-building type activities after college, so assisting in coordinating the tournament helped her in working with others.

Yet planning the tournament with 10 other people was challenging at times for Dial.

“I think it’s been a great experience and a growing experience for all of us in the class, just knowing where everybody fits in what their passion is in what we’re doing,” she said.

Reach Nina Bosken at diversions@chherald.com.