CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WAND) - The second year of the "We Give Blood" competition is well underway on Big Ten Conference campuses throughout the country. The competition pits all the schools in the conference against each other to find out who can donate the most blood.

The University of Illinois is currently in sixth place in the standings. You can find a live leaderboard by clicking here .

The competition is a partnership between Abbott and the Big Ten, with the winning school awarded $1 million to use for community or student health. The goal of the drive is to get more young people to donate.

"Those first-time blood donors that come out, they make that donation, they make it a part of what they do, it just becomes part of the routine," said Jayce Eustice of the Red Cross. The Red Cross

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