Hello World!
I am very excited about this opportunity to bring you Alex's Virtual Lemonade Stand! If you're hearing about this for the first time, Alex's Lemonade Stand is a non-profit organization helping doctors find a cure for kids with cancer. Alex Scott, the inspiring young girl who was diagnosed with pediatric cancer in 2000, began her mission to fight for a cure, "One cup at a time" through her corner lemonade stand. A simple idea you might be thinking? An impossible dream? An idea so small that a little girl could make a difference in the world?
Needless to say, Alex raised over $1,000,000 for cancer research before she passed at the age of 8 years old.
Alex's inspiration rippled through the community and all over the United States and beyond, raising over 9 million dollars as of November 2006.
Here at the Lower Merion School District, where Alex attended elementary school, and MAGPI at the University of Pennsylvania, we began a virtual lemonade stand project to help connect students in grade K to 12 with Alex's determinable story and create the awareness of kids with cancer.
To find out more about our project: Alex's Virtual Lemonade Stand, please visit:
http://www.magpi.net/programs/alexslemonade.html
http://www.alexslemonade.org/
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