Hunter Kahn, a mechanical engineering student at Cornell University, donated several Nintendo Switch consoles and games to Children’s Minnesota Hospital in Minneapolis after paying out nearly $ 30,000 in GameStop inventory last Wednesday, he told CNN.
Kahn, who lives in Stillwater, Minnesota, said he participated in the purchase of GameStop shares to join the movement to prove ‘the big boys on Wall Street’ wrong. But, he said, a portion of his new fortune to help donate children to the hospital feels better than waking up with any monetary gain.
Kahn’s donations are valued at more than $ 2,000, the Children’s Minnesota Hospital said.
“We are so grateful for this generous donation that will help children in our hospitals bring joy, especially during these difficult times,” Jennifer Soderholm, president of the Children’s Minnesota Foundation, said in an email to CNN. “It’s inspiring to see how young people in our community choose to give back and pay it back in advance.”
His donations include: six Nintendo Switch Lites, two Nintendo Switches, multiplayer games and e-shop gift cards, and screen protectors and cases for the Switches.
According to the hospital, patients are already using the donations.
“There’s no group of people who earn more to receive a bunch of video games than some kids get hard on,” Kahn told CNN.
Kahn said he encourages others who benefit from the movement to use their luck to pay it off in advance.
“If we criticize these people on Wall Street and move the money from one side to the other, it would be pointless if we act exactly like these people we criticize,” he said.
He still sticks to the original 50 shares he bought at $ 30, and says he plans to use the rest of his earnings to pay off his college fees.