Holy moly, did the fundraiser work! Come Friday, we went around to each school and collected the jugs of money. For the intermediate we asked who the individual winner was, which happened to be Mr. Nicholson. We kept each schools' jugs separate so we could get a clear winner. We got to the bank and they took the money to count. They deposited the money and gave us a check. The check was for $2,124.65! We surpassed our goal by over $1000. Brandywine did their own fundraiser and gave us a check for $160. The high school didn't produce any money, but we chalk that up to lack of communication. The high schoolers didn't seem to know what the jugs were for.
As for the pizzas, Mr. Hercamp said the school corporation would be able to pay for all of the pizzas. Mama Nita's even gave them a discount. We ordered 2 cheese and 2 pepperoni pizzas for each class. It totaled about 40 pizzas. We had the help off some friends in study hall that could deliver the pizzas for us. They picked up all except for one class's pizzas the week after the fundraiser ended and took them to each school. The one class had to wait till next week in order to have their party. We did not provide drinks and plates to the school. Totals of each school New Palestine Elementary - $406.32 Sugar Creek Elementary - $581.55 Brandywine - $160 New Palestine Intermediate - $493.66 New Palestine Junior High - $483.12 New Palestine High School - $0
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Finally, the week has come to put our project into action. We had a plan to just give the pizza party to one class for each elementary school, but all of the group has sports to attend to so we are going with the winning grade for each school. Brandywine has their own fundraiser, so they will the money they made on their own to us. For both the intermediate and junior high schools, we have the school produce one classroom in the entire school as the winner. The junior high school has their own incentive and doesn't need a pizza party. The intermediate weighed each classrooms total which is very flawed, but they insisted on doing it. The high school has jugs in lunch for each grade level. The class with highest amount of cash will earn points towards spirit week. We will pick up all of the jugs Friday and take them to the First Merchant Bank off of 52 for them to count. All we can do now is sit and wait for all of the money to be collected.
We were very ambitions in our aspirations for pitch day. We explained throughly what Imagination Library was in our Powerpoint. Along with a Powerpoint we made one sheets to help paraphrase what the Powerpoint was about. With the great success from the year before we thought we'd raise the bar a bit and try to go for $1000 this year. We made it a week long. The dates were September 17-21. This also happened to be the week of homecoming. Megan, Grace, and I decided that we would give water jugs as containers to hold the coins. We would give one jug for each grade in that particular school. At the end of the week we would pick up the jugs and take them to First Merchant Bank. The day itself had the mixed atmosphere of nerves and excitement. We finally got to present our idea that we worked so hard in coming up with. There was about 10 administrators in the room. We had to give each of them a one sheet of our presentation. When we were finally called up to the front of the room, we relaxed ourselves and had a great presentation. We spoke loud and clear and the feeling of nerves went away. We got through and got some great feedback from the administrators. It all began when I got invited to join the Y-Give foundation for Hancock County. We had to do a fundraiser for Imagination Library, so Mr. Large and I decided that it would be best to do both projects as one fundraiser. I got together with Mrs. Young, Megan Jolly, and Grace Twyford, to gets ideas on the project that would become Penny Wars. The main goal was to raise $1000 dollars to give to the Imagination Library. This organization helps to give families with new kids, books to read so that they are able to become literate. It sends books to kids that are registered from when they are first born till they turn 5 years old. Currently they have over 1 million kids enrolled into the program. For more information about Imagination Library use this link:
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