Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Thank you all for an INCREDIBLE Kick Off today! What an amazing job you all did showing us your lemon spirit! Many thanks to all of the schools who joined us for the kick-off videoconference of the 2012 Alex's Virtual Lemonade Stand project! It was lemon-tastic!

Schools from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Alabama, Montana, New Jersey and even as far as Taiwan showed off their lemon spirit. Our VJs from Mrs. Quartullo's 2nd grade class at Crooked Billet Elementary did an AMAZING job VJ'ing our 2012 kick off event! We got to meet Liz Scott, Alex's mom, from Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation who told us about her daughter Alex and read from Alex and The Amazing Lemonade Stand. We also got to hear a special message from Lily Adkins, and amazing local ALSF Hero - - and one of ours too! And OF COURSE we got to see everyone's excitement and enthusiasm for raising money to fund pediatric cancer research and end childhood cancers worldwide!

In our spirit rally ALL schools had a chance to show us just how excited they were about the project. There were skits, songs, poems, dances, cheers, and lemons galore. All the schools were amazing but Liz Scott and the MAGPI judges have decided the following schools ultimately are our 2012 Spirit Award winners!

Moreland Hills Elementary School
National Dali High School
Montana School for the Deaf

We also had a chance to view the 2012 MAKE A DIFFERENCE COMMERCIAL CONTEST entries. Click here to view and vote for your favorites. The video with the most 'likes' by midnight (EDT) on May 20, 2012 wins. So share the links to your favorite video to everyone you know and get them to vote before the contest ends. Speaking of contests, your poster contest entries are due May 17th. We CAN"T WAIT to see your creativity and lemon spirit shine in these posters!

Finally, don't forget to report your daily lemonade sales through our online form. Send us photos , videos, stories and anything else you'd like to share about all your hard work and lemon spirit!

Did you miss our kick off? Check out the archived webstream below!

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