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Paula Dugan, FCCLA Advisor :: CAT-Pickering FCCLA/PHX.YOB Phoenixville, PA :: 2008
Ball For Students…Aid for Friends
On January 24th, 2008 nearly 90 students from the Center for Arts and Technology Pickering Campus danced across the midnight-blue star-studded dance floor at the Kimberton Arts Building, Kimberton, PA. The annual Winter Ball sponsored by the Family Career Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) chapter and student council members, helps to beat the winter dull-drums. However this year the students added an extra touch to the affair by helping to defray dance tickets cost when students brought in canned goods in support of the Souper Bowl of Caring
Campaign. The campaign held prior to the Football Super Bowl is a youth led initiative to fight hunger & poverty in local communities across the country. Just imagine if even half of the estimated 130 million people who watch the big game gave one dollar to help those in need. While sponsors will pay millions for seconds of advertising, the staff and students at CAT-Pickering are using their shop talents to make a difference. Students from the graphics arts shop took and displayed photos of the magical winter ball and FCCLA will download the photos creating a Winter Ball memoir to sell to attendees for $1 and 1 canned good, representing just how much ONE can make a difference. Family Career Community Leaders of America’s goal is to make a difference to families, while exploring careers and making differences in their community. Leadership skills are developed at state and national conferences for which students raise funds to attend.
Making a difference on a local level, FCCLA students prepared meals from the Winter Ball leftovers and donated to AID FOR FRIENDS, Philadelphia PA. The meals of meatballs, pasta, garlic bread, fried chicken, veggies and cheese sauce with baked peaches were packaged in aluminum foil individual food trays and delivered to the local AID FOR FRIENDS adjacent to St. Ann’s Parish, Phoenixville Pa. These meals are then distributed to isolated or homebound elderly across the five county Greater Philadelphia Area. AID FOR FRIENDS volunteers deliver the free meals along with making friendly visits.
The entire school gets in on the Winter Ball fever as staff donate evening gowns, suits and ties, the Cosmetology shop do up-dos, manicures and make-up, Auto Body puts the finishing midnight blue touches on star studded pillars complete with carpentry made lighting stands. Childcare students along with student council members utilize their laptop technology to organize the event from ticket sales to winter prince and princess nominations. Students are already planning the 2009 Winter Ball Mardi Gras theme…just maybe their focus on hunger and poverty awareness campaign can reach and help those affected in the home of the real Mardi gras next year. One thing is for sure, one student, one shop, one school at a time, ONE can make a difference. For more information on the Souper Bowl of Caring campaign go to www.souperbowl.org or contact any FCCLA member at CAT-Pickering c/o paulad@cciu.org. The staff and students will continue the canned goods collection and dollar donations throughout this week leading up to the Super Bowl.
Participant Stories
Jacqueline Pickens :: Alcott Elementary School Houston, TX :: 2010
This is my first year to participate in this great fundraising event to help the hungry. This fun activity involves our students and staff donating non-perishable food items starting January 19th-February 5th. All donations will go to the Houston Food Bank. The fun part involves a contest between teams and a celebration at the end. We have seven teams participating and every Friday we do a count to see who is in the lead. Last Friday was our first count and all our teams are doing great. When we first started the fundraiser I said to myself, “I hope we raise at least 1,000 non-perishable food items. That would be great!!”
Our total count as of last Friday was 1,180 non-perishable food items, and we still have two more Fridays to collect. I cannot wait to see how many more non-perishable food items we will collect. It gives me pleasure to see everyone coming together students and staff for a great cause. I look forward to seeing what our total will be.
Sincerely,
Jacqueline Pickens
Alcott Elementary School
Houston, Texas
Susan West :: Loganville Elementary Jr. Beta Loganville, GA :: 2010
To raise money for Haiti, our elementary Jr. Beta Club sold jeans stickers to all the faculty and staff at school. In addition, all students are being encouraged to bring in their loose change. Fish tanks are set up by grade level and the grade that brings in the most money wins an extra recess. Our efforts will also be combined with another school's elementary Jr. Beta Club in our cluster.
8th grade :: St. Thomas School Ft. Thomas, KY :: 2010
This year we are holding the "Baby Bowl". Our kickoff date was January 22, Day of Prayer and Penance for Life. Our goal is to collect 100 yards of baby food. Along the way there will be prizes for the school.
When we reached:
25 yards- SUGAR BABIES!!
50 yards- pep rally with baby obstacle course
75 yards- football shirt day
100 yards (TOUCHDOWN!!) Bowling
Right now we are out 93 yards...with one more school day to go before the Super Bowl!!
Owen-Withee High School Student Council :: Owen-Withee High School Owen, WI :: 2010
Our Food Drive was a competition with a neighboring small school. The winner receives a "soup can" and suckers for the student body. This year we lost. Thorp had 1205 items while we had 689. During half-time of the girls basketball game, we turned over the can and the suckers to Thorp. Last year we won 1345 vs 931. This is a great competition that benefits our own communities (food stays in each community).
Johanna Vega :: Greenfield School Milwaukee, WI :: 2010
The Student Council Members of Greenfield School decided to have a food drive and to donate the food that they collected to the Hunger Task Force. The Hunger Task Force reported that we donated 2,975 lbs. of non-perishable food items. We just want to thank all the students, parents and staff that helped make this possible.
Liz Liljestrom-MVHS Community Liaison :: Monte Vista High School Friday Night Live Club and One.Org Club Spring Valley, CA :: 2010
This year we expanded our efforts. Our theme was Hearts and Soles for Haiti.
We collected spare change from parents as they exited our parking lot. We collected $1,000.65 during our week-long effort. We also held an outreach luncheon where students were able to purchase burritos, rolled tacos, wings n things, pizza and ice cream cones. Our local restaurants know us well, so they donate food at cost and will wait until after our event to get paid. When the advisor from our One.Org Club went to pay Sarita's Taco Shop for the food purchased, Sarita, the owner would not except payment. She donated back the cost of all the food! Thanks to MVHS parents, students, Wings n Things, Little Caesars, and especially Sarita's for giving back and paying it forward!
Alison Beazley :: The Winston School Dallas, TX :: 2010
Year Two of the Souper Bowl of Caring is the Best Yet!
Year two of hosting the Souper Bowl of Caring Kick-off event was bigger and better than we could imagine! Hosting a tailgate party in our gym for students, parents and local dignitaries proved fun and exciting for us all. Students in Lower and Middle School helped to provide signs to promote hunger relief while Upper School students created and managed booths to bring light to some of the hunger related issues faced by our community. Upper School Art Academy students showed off their skills of pottery and woodworking by creating unique bowls for the Empty Bowls project, another important fundraising opportunity for the North Texas Food Bank. All of the major television stations came to interview dignitaries and students and share the news of the program to the community. Notables included Drew Pearson, former Dallas Cowboy wide receiver and presidents of both the North Texas and Tarrant Area Food Banks. The Dallas Cowboy’s mascot, Rowdy, helped to entertain the crowd along with The Winston School cheerleaders and our band debuted the new school fight song. Local grocery stores provided lunch for all who attended including hot dogs, drinks, chips and cookies. Prizes, games and food were enjoyed by all.
Families at Winston again showed great compassion by donating over a ton of food for the North Texas Food Bank. In total, The Winston School donated almost 2,250 pounds of food and $500 which will provide over 10,000 meals to needy North Texans. The community at The Winston School continues to show they care! Congratulations on a job well done!
Kay Parrott :: Cherry Valley Elementary Newark, OH :: 2010
This was our first year, and as the Student Council Advisor and also a physical education teacher, we decided to hold a soup can collection contest! And what better way to do than to hold a boys versus girls contest. We set up a football carpet in our main entryway, and placed hockey goals at each end so as to catch any cans that fell. Each morning for an entire week, council members met students at the door to collect cans. On Friday, all cans were counted and boxed up for delivery to our local food pantry. After collecting 1,992 cans for the week, our totals were only off by 32 cans! Wow! What a contest! And the winners were, THE BOYS! Of course there are more boys in our building but not by much. The winners were served an ice cream sundae on Friday by our Student Council, and then because of a bad snow storm, all were sent home for the day! Check out our can collection!
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"During the week of our collection, we had a family whose house burned. We decided that since we were all so affected by this event to donate 100 cans to the family in need." (more) Ms. Lewis, Nichols JH - StuCo in Arlington, TX
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