SHS Students Make A Difference With Senior Projects
By Kim Towns, Senior Project Coordinator, Superior High School
Slam Dunk for Cancer Fundraising Event at SHS
Superior High School students completing their senior project have raised awareness and money and provided assistance to various organizations in our community. Those students who follow the expectations of Service Learning experience the greatest level of success. Our seniors have been doing this since the inception of the program.
This school year is no exception and, in fact is quite a banner year. Starting the very first week of school, the senior project of two of our students raised $4004 to send four veterans to Washington, D.C. Then a “Tackle Cancer” football game and fundraising events brought in $6647.65 for breast cancer.
These were followed by two senior projects in February at a basketball game, “Slam Dunk for Cancer” which raised $5627 for breast cancer. In January a “Pack the Pool” swim meet/fund raiser netted $1477 for Parkinson’s Disease aid.
Red the Rink Fundraiser for Heart Disease at SHS
The “Red the Rink” Spartan hockey game (also in February) raised just over $4750 for heart disease. If we add in the Service Learning projects of the summer ($350 for SMS Health and Wellness fund, $1407 to the Kidney Foundation, and $1695 to the efforts to stop human trafficking), the total raised by SHS students is staggering.
Because of student effort, and community response and assistance, the students completing a senior project and learning to network, organize, work together, plan, plan and then plan even more, have attempted to change the things they can with more than $25,000 raised this year alone!
Despite finding this work very difficult, they all said in the end it was both worth doing, and that they would do it again. So we have not only a serious contribution to the needs of society, but also young people who recognize the right thing to do, serve one another even when it is not easy or timely, but because it is, simply, good to do.
How can we not be anything but proud of our students at Superior High School?
