CT Students Send Jeopardy Host 1000 Cranes

POMFRET, CT — A group of from Pomfret Community School recently gifted Jeopardy host Alex Trebek with 1,000 origami cranes. The folding of 1,000 cranes in Japan is traditionally thought to represent good fortune, hope, and healing during challenging times. Trebek has been fighting stage-four pancreatic cancer.

The students sent the cranes in the summer and recently received a response on the show's website.

"Following Alex Trebek’s pancreatic cancer diagnosis, the students of Pomfret Community School in Pomfret Center, Connecticut, gifted him with 1,000 origami cranes. Alex and the entire Jeopardy! family find the same inspiration in the multiple strings of cranes now proudly flying in their new home on Stage 10."

One of the group of five students who sent the cranes is Emma Costa, a seventh-grader at Pomfret Community School, who told NBC CT she has been watching the show since she was 8 years old. Costa said that Trebek "brings joy to the learning aspect of almost everything."

When Costa and other students learned of Trebek's diagnosis, they were crushed. She later came up with the idea to send the origami cranes and asked her friends if they would help. It took months for the group to fold all 1,000.