Students support young patients
For the second year in a row, high school students at Northwest Christian Schools have delivered PICC Pal pillows, which go between a peripherally inserted central catheter line and the patient’s skin, to patients at Sacred Heart Children’s Hospital.
The school’s Future Business Leaders of America class also teamed with the Crusaders boys and girls basketball teams to raise money for gifts for teens undergoing long-term treatment at Sacred Heart.
Fundraising took place during halftime and included photos with Santa and pop-shot and bucket pass competitions during halftime. These gifts, and the PICC Pal pillows, were delivered Friday.
FBLA uses dodgeball to help
The Cheney High School Future Business Leaders of America club finished second in the Spokane Teachers Credit Union $100 Make a Difference contest, which gives local students $100 for a project and asks them to create a video showing how they used the money to make a difference in their community.
The Cheney FBLA club used the money to hold an after-school dodgeball tournament. Club Co-Presidents Ben Riddle and Sydney Zapf wrote the project application, and Riddle was in charge of setting up and running the tournament.
The tournament raised $797, which was donated to the March of Dimes.
For placing second, the club received a $1,500 prize from STCU. Odessa High School’s FBLA club won first place and $2,500 for its Toasty Tots project, and Lewiston Senior High School’s club won third place and $1,000 for its project, Flags for Aryanna.
To watch the Cheney FBLA club’s video and learn more about the other projects STCU sponsored, visit http://tinyurl.com/100dollarprojects.
SPS students get LEGO awards
Thirty-nine teams of Spokane Public Schools students received awards from the FIRST LEGO League Regional Competition, which took place earlier this month at Salk Middle School.
Awards were given in four categories: core values, robot design, robot performance and project design.
Winning teams that received awards on Dec. 10 are: The Brainiac Bears (Browne Elementary School, project: innovative solution); Tog Dogs (Moran Prairie Elementary School, project: presentation); Black Vipers (Woodridge Elementary School, core values: inspiration); Fruit Loops (Shaw Middle School, core values: gracious professionalism); Robotic Turtles (Woodridge, core values: teamwork award); Animals (Woodridge, judge’s award: unity award); and Arlibots (Arlington Elementary School, regional champions).
These teams, plus Harambes from Shaw, are moving on to the Eastern Washington State Competition, which will take place Jan. 21.
Winning teams that received awards on Dec. 11 are: Einstein Girls (Linwood Elementary School, core values: inspiration); IST #1 Programming Ponies (Institute of Science and Technology at North Central High School, core values: teamwork); Robo Dogs (Linwood, core values: gracious professionalism); Odyssey Robotics Club (Odyssey, robot design: mechanical design); Bryant Bobcats Blue (TEC, judge’s award: balance award); and The Right Droids (Moran Prairie Express, judge’s award: inventor’s award).
The Right Droids, Robo Dogs and Everything is Awesome, from Mullan Road Express, move on to the state competition.
Girl nets $500 for classroom
Trent Elementary School student Breyona Hutchison recently wrote a letter to Liberty Creek Financial asking for help with a Donors Choose project for Erin Peterson’s classroom.
Because of her strong writing skills, Liberty donated $250 to the classroom, which was matched by Tom’s of Maine for a total of $500.
Students, staff collect food
Students and staff at Ness Elementary School recently collected hundreds of pounds of food to donate to a local food bank.
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