We are just 'wowed' here at MAGPI. Many many thanks to all of the students and teachers that made our 2011 Project such a wonderful success! We couldn't have done it with out you.
From our fabulous VJ teams at Southern Lehigh Middle School and Fox Township Elementary, to our guest speakers and performers, to the original song created by Mr. Duane, to all of the lemonade stands you hosted, commercials you created and pie -in-the-face contests you held, ALL OF YOU MADE A DIFFERENCE.
The more than $15,000 that all of your raised will mean wonders for the kids battling pediatric cancer -- and gets us that much closer to a cure. You all are truly superheroes.
Here are the highlights of our 2011 program!
We're editing the final VC program and will post it as soon as it's ready!
Monday, May 23, 2011
Thursday, May 19, 2011
School Reports from Week Two!
Hopewell Junior High School
Hopewell sold 375 cups of lemonade at their 7th and 8th grade dance on Friday. They raised $375! Go Hopewell!
Robeson Elementary School
Despite cold and rainy weather, Robeson has sold 498 cups of lemonade -- raising $249 more this week. That's total. From their report: "Sales were brisk and we cured a lot of thirst!"
Fox Township Elementary
Fox Township has one more day to sell lemonade before they make their final tally on Thursday. They've raised $267.85 this week alone!
Southern Lehigh Middle School
SLMS students have been selling lemonade during 7th/8th grade lunches and their activity period… for a total of $86.24 so far!
Hallowell Elementary
Hallowell students reported 200 cups of lemonade sold this week -- adding an additional $518.19 to what they reported last week. What a great success!!
Old Forge School District
Old Forge held their one-day sale today and everyone bought lemonade and made very generous donations. All of theirfifth grade students worked very hard. They are very thankful to all of the students and staff who helped them make a difference for children fighting cancer! They reported raising $718.97 and selling more than 500 cups of lemonade!
Moreland Hills Elementary School
They last day of Moreland Hills' lemonade stand was exciting! By now, all got a chance to do various jobs at the stand-cashier, stirrer, pourer, etc. Once again, pink lemonade was the popular choice. Most students wanted ""a tall pink""! But today, the kindergartners were on a field trip so could not buy lemonade. Otherwise we would have more money! Students in our school were sad that the lemonade stand was done! In the afternoon, they counted money and raffled extra T-shirts we had designed! We made a total of $1536.69!
Valley View School
Valley View School sold lemonade last Friday during our afternoon recess. It was an absolutely beautiful day and the lemonade went down real smooth. They look forward to another day of sales this Friday -- and so far have sold 300 cups of lemonade and raised $150!
National Dali High School- Taiwan
National Dali High School- Taiwan is proud to make further collaborations with Princeton South Elementary School- Minnesota, adding up to $ 1535 of donations! We are mailing out bookmarks with calligraphy (of names translated into Chinese) along with round silk fans with Chinese painting! And we also sold many of our Taiwan specially-designed Lemonade T-shirts!:)
Delaware Valley High School
DVSD has reported that they raised more than $750!
So far that $12,316.11 worth of lemonade to help find a cure for pediatric cancer. You all are doing GREAT! Can't wait until tomorrow's wrap-up celebration!
Hopewell sold 375 cups of lemonade at their 7th and 8th grade dance on Friday. They raised $375! Go Hopewell!
Robeson Elementary School
Despite cold and rainy weather, Robeson has sold 498 cups of lemonade -- raising $249 more this week. That's total. From their report: "Sales were brisk and we cured a lot of thirst!"
Fox Township Elementary
Fox Township has one more day to sell lemonade before they make their final tally on Thursday. They've raised $267.85 this week alone!
Southern Lehigh Middle School
SLMS students have been selling lemonade during 7th/8th grade lunches and their activity period… for a total of $86.24 so far!
Hallowell Elementary
Hallowell students reported 200 cups of lemonade sold this week -- adding an additional $518.19 to what they reported last week. What a great success!!
Old Forge School District
Old Forge held their one-day sale today and everyone bought lemonade and made very generous donations. All of theirfifth grade students worked very hard. They are very thankful to all of the students and staff who helped them make a difference for children fighting cancer! They reported raising $718.97 and selling more than 500 cups of lemonade!
Moreland Hills Elementary School
They last day of Moreland Hills' lemonade stand was exciting! By now, all got a chance to do various jobs at the stand-cashier, stirrer, pourer, etc. Once again, pink lemonade was the popular choice. Most students wanted ""a tall pink""! But today, the kindergartners were on a field trip so could not buy lemonade. Otherwise we would have more money! Students in our school were sad that the lemonade stand was done! In the afternoon, they counted money and raffled extra T-shirts we had designed! We made a total of $1536.69!
Valley View School
Valley View School sold lemonade last Friday during our afternoon recess. It was an absolutely beautiful day and the lemonade went down real smooth. They look forward to another day of sales this Friday -- and so far have sold 300 cups of lemonade and raised $150!
National Dali High School- Taiwan
National Dali High School- Taiwan is proud to make further collaborations with Princeton South Elementary School- Minnesota, adding up to $ 1535 of donations! We are mailing out bookmarks with calligraphy (of names translated into Chinese) along with round silk fans with Chinese painting! And we also sold many of our Taiwan specially-designed Lemonade T-shirts!:)
Delaware Valley High School
DVSD has reported that they raised more than $750!
So far that $12,316.11 worth of lemonade to help find a cure for pediatric cancer. You all are doing GREAT! Can't wait until tomorrow's wrap-up celebration!
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
2011 Poster Contest Entries
We'll be announcing the winner of this year's poster contest at the celebration videoconference on Friday... but thought you might like to take a peek at the entries!
Sunday, May 15, 2011
School Reports from Week One!
Here's what schools are reporting from week one!
Fox Township Elementary
Fox Township Elementary has sold 476 cups of lemonade -- and 98% of their school population has participated in this program. LEMON-AZING. They've raised $598.91! They've also had a bake sale with ribbon cookies and their sour face contest is really raking in the pennies.
Hallowell Elementary
Third Grade students at Hallowell have sold 479 cups of lemonade -- and raised $780.05. Every student in the third grade has been involved in the project - - and students from Kindergarten through Fifth Grade supported their reject. There was a special ice cream raffle for those who donated on the first day and everyone raved about the lemonade. Special visitors have made donations too. One of their families even donated $100!
Robeson Elementary School
450 cups of lemonade have been sold by the Robeson elementary school team! Students are especially loving lemonade at recess -- and sales at their annual REC BBQ were definitely swift! They've raised $1305. From their daily report: "Alex is seeing to it that we have been having gorgeous weather for our lemonade sales. Thanks angel!"
Montana School for the Deaf and Blind
MSDB has reported 174 cups of lemonade sold -- for a total of $422 so far!
They held a lemonade stand on campus and asked for a donation instead of having a set price. They had pink lemonade and yellow lemonade, along with goodies that were made by students in their life skills classes and donated by staff members. It was a huge success for their school and the community. From their report: "It was awesome to see our students using the skills they have learned in the classroom in real life situation. We want to say thank you to the students, parents, our school, and our community. We would also like to thank Alex's Lemonade Stand for bringing this project and the idea of helping others to our school."
Spring Ford High School
We had two stands after school to accompany Soft Pretzel Tuesday -- and sold 315 cups of lemonade, raising $225. Students were standing in line in both locations! They were excited to see that students were also contributing money above and beyond the requested donation.
Moreland Hills Elementary
Moreland Hills Elementary sold our lemonade during our lunch periods near our cafeterias. They had pink and yellow lemonade and also sold lemonheads. They had 2 sizes of lemonade-a small for 50C and a tall for a dollar. It seems like pink lemonade was very popular. In fact by the time the 5th graders came to their stand, they! were out of pink lemonade. So they know what they have to make more of for tomorrow! They've raised $1043.34 so far -- and their goal is $2000!
National Dali High School
To fight pediatric cancer, National Dali High School-Taiwan has taken Alex’s Virtual Lemonade Stand Project not only community-wide but also international. National Dali High School organized international fundraising videoconferences with schools across the continent. Thanks to Region 13 Distance Learning in Texas, we were able to hold a multiple-site bidding with schools including Princeton South Elementary School & Princeton High School - Minnesota, Del Valle High School-Texas, Earlham High School- Iowa, and Nicaragua American School, Nicaragua. We’ve had great participations, including terrific Save-the-World Presentations by Princeton S. Elementary, outstanding Varsity Band Performances by Princeton High School, and fabulous Global Concern Presentations & Calligraphy Performances by National Dali High School, Taiwan ! They raised $1200!
Little Flower Family and Children’s Services
Our High School Lives Skills class, home economics class, and a 8th grade class sold lemonade and cookies around the school campus from their roving lemonade stand. They've sold 46 cups of lemonade and raised $83.25!
That's $5888.05 reported raised so far! Keep it up everyone!
Fox Township Elementary
Fox Township Elementary has sold 476 cups of lemonade -- and 98% of their school population has participated in this program. LEMON-AZING. They've raised $598.91! They've also had a bake sale with ribbon cookies and their sour face contest is really raking in the pennies.
Hallowell Elementary
Third Grade students at Hallowell have sold 479 cups of lemonade -- and raised $780.05. Every student in the third grade has been involved in the project - - and students from Kindergarten through Fifth Grade supported their reject. There was a special ice cream raffle for those who donated on the first day and everyone raved about the lemonade. Special visitors have made donations too. One of their families even donated $100!
Robeson Elementary School
450 cups of lemonade have been sold by the Robeson elementary school team! Students are especially loving lemonade at recess -- and sales at their annual REC BBQ were definitely swift! They've raised $1305. From their daily report: "Alex is seeing to it that we have been having gorgeous weather for our lemonade sales. Thanks angel!"
Montana School for the Deaf and Blind
MSDB has reported 174 cups of lemonade sold -- for a total of $422 so far!
They held a lemonade stand on campus and asked for a donation instead of having a set price. They had pink lemonade and yellow lemonade, along with goodies that were made by students in their life skills classes and donated by staff members. It was a huge success for their school and the community. From their report: "It was awesome to see our students using the skills they have learned in the classroom in real life situation. We want to say thank you to the students, parents, our school, and our community. We would also like to thank Alex's Lemonade Stand for bringing this project and the idea of helping others to our school."
Spring Ford High School
We had two stands after school to accompany Soft Pretzel Tuesday -- and sold 315 cups of lemonade, raising $225. Students were standing in line in both locations! They were excited to see that students were also contributing money above and beyond the requested donation.
Moreland Hills Elementary
Moreland Hills Elementary sold our lemonade during our lunch periods near our cafeterias. They had pink and yellow lemonade and also sold lemonheads. They had 2 sizes of lemonade-a small for 50C and a tall for a dollar. It seems like pink lemonade was very popular. In fact by the time the 5th graders came to their stand, they! were out of pink lemonade. So they know what they have to make more of for tomorrow! They've raised $1043.34 so far -- and their goal is $2000!
National Dali High School
To fight pediatric cancer, National Dali High School-Taiwan has taken Alex’s Virtual Lemonade Stand Project not only community-wide but also international. National Dali High School organized international fundraising videoconferences with schools across the continent. Thanks to Region 13 Distance Learning in Texas, we were able to hold a multiple-site bidding with schools including Princeton South Elementary School & Princeton High School - Minnesota, Del Valle High School-Texas, Earlham High School- Iowa, and Nicaragua American School, Nicaragua. We’ve had great participations, including terrific Save-the-World Presentations by Princeton S. Elementary, outstanding Varsity Band Performances by Princeton High School, and fabulous Global Concern Presentations & Calligraphy Performances by National Dali High School, Taiwan ! They raised $1200!
Little Flower Family and Children’s Services
Our High School Lives Skills class, home economics class, and a 8th grade class sold lemonade and cookies around the school campus from their roving lemonade stand. They've sold 46 cups of lemonade and raised $83.25!
That's $5888.05 reported raised so far! Keep it up everyone!
Thursday, May 12, 2011
National Dali High School & International Fundraising Videoconferences for AVLS 2011
To fight pediatric cancer, National Dali High School-Taiwan has taken Alex’s Virtual Lemonade Stand Project not only community-wide but also international. National Dali High School organized international fundraising videoconferences with schools across the continent. Thanks to Region 13 Distance Learning in Texas, we were able to hold a multiple-site bidding with schools including Princeton South Elementary School & Princeton High School -Minnesota, Del Valle High School-Texas, Earlham High School- Iowa, and Nicaragua American School, Nicaragua. We’ve had great participations, including terrific Save-the-World Presentations by Princeton S. Elementary, outstanding Varsity Band Performances by Princeton High School, and fabulous Global Concern Presentations & Calligraphy Performances by National Dali High School, Taiwan!Special thanks to our world class teachers: Mr. Michael Cunningham & Mrs. Cindy Brovold.
Written by lead teacher-Meimei Mary Shih & students of National Dali High School, Taiwan
Monday, May 09, 2011
What a FANTASTIC KICK OFF! These schools have GREAT Lemon Spirit!
Wow. Many thanks to all of the schools who joined us for the kick-off videoconference of the 2011 Alex's Virtual Lemonade Stand project! It was lemon-azing.Schools from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Montana, New Jersey and even as far as Taiwan showed off their lemon spirit. Our VJs from Fox Township Elementary School in Kersey, Pennsylvania showed us how EVERYONE can be a superhero, the lead singers of Milkshake gave a shout out to all of our participants, Liz Scott from Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation shared Alex and the Amazing Lemonade Stand, and Mikayala Andrews (ALSF Hero - - and one of ours too!) talked about her winning battle with childhood cancer.
Let's just say... everyone ROCKED.
Then came the spirit rally, where all schools had a chance to show us just how excited they were about the project. There were skits, songs, poems, dances, cheers, and whole lotta yellow. While everyone did a fantastic job, these schools nabbed lemon spirit awards this year:
- Fox Township Elementary
- National Dali High School
- Moreland Hills Elementary
- Phoenixville Area High School
- Fernwood Avenue Middle School
We also had a chance to view the 2011 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 Thursday, May 19, 2011 wins.
Don't forget to submit your poster contest entries by May 13th... and to report your daily lemonade sales through our online form. And upload your photos to our Picassa album!
Did you miss our kick off? Check out the archived webstream below!
Friday, May 06, 2011
Moreland Hills Elementary is READY for AVLS 2011!
Our friends at Moreland Hills Elementary have designed some fabulous posters and t-shirts for their Alex's Virtual Lemonade Stand 2011 Project! Here's what some of their students are saying:- We are making posters to put up around our school- Max
- We are working hard to get ready for our lemonade stand-Steve
- We have an awesome, awesome jingle-Abby
- We are happy that we're helping kids who have cancer-Elise
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Getting out the dye... but not for eggs!
Preparation for the virtual lemonade stand project has moved in to high gear! With Easter break on the horizon, teachers at Fox Township Elementary School thought it would be fun to break out the dye, but not for Easter eggs! Students and teachers got into the spirit by tie-dying t-shirts instead.Teachers had already decided to ask everyone to wear yellow for the kick-off on May 6th, but soon realized that yellow shirts are few and far between. Someone had the brilliant idea to tie-dye shirts with the students instead. We decided to use the color yellow to represent the lemonade theme and gray for brain cancer, in honor of our local inspiration for this event. Lucky for us, we have some resident tie-dying experts, as the kindergarten students learned about properties of fabric and tie-dying earlier in the year as part of a science module. We were also fortunate to have two high school students, Abby & Olivia, as our “traveling tie-dying team.” As part of a community service project, they volunteered to visit each classroom to assist in dying the shirts. To say everyone had fun would be an understatement! Students and teachers are excited about their work and can’t way to show off their lemonade inspired t-shirt creations at kickoff!
Post Contributed by Amanda Vollmer, Teacher at Fox Township Elementary.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Fox Township Students are Getting "Sour" for Alex's Lemonade!
The faculty and staff at Fox Township Elementary School are busily preparing for the upcoming Alex’s Virtual Lemonade Stand project. This cause is near and dear to our hearts, as we lost one of our kindergarten students to pediatric brain cancer this February. We will be wearing yellow in his honor at the May 6th kick-off event and just found out that we will be VJs for this event as well. How exciting!Although the project hasn’t officially been announced to students and families, we anticipate a positive reaction from the community. One of our school families has a lemonade stand that we will be using throughout our event, so that should add to the excitement. In addition to the video conferences, classrooms will be participating in the poster contest and the 5th graders will be using their Flip cams to create a commercial to submit. The teachers will get in on the act with a “Sour Face Contest.” We will take pictures of any teacher that wants to participate and they’ll be showing off their very best “Sour Face.” People will be able to vote for the best sour face by placing pennies in the container for their favorite face. We will then announce the winning teacher at the VC on the 20th.
The lemonade stand itself will be up and running during 4 different days for lunch here at school and also during our evening family book fair on May 10th. Student, parent, and teacher volunteers will be in charge of helping with the distribution and lemonade sales. Our hopes that are through this fundraising event we can raise both money and awareness for childhood cancers so that a cure will be found!
Post Contributed by Amanda Vollmer, Teacher at Fox Township Elementary.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Milkshake wants ALL Virtual Lemonade Stand Project Kids to know...
That they are SUPERHEROES.
Have you registered yet? More info about the 2011 Alex's Virtual Lemonade Stand Project -- including how to register -- can be found on the MAGPI website.
The Grammy-nominated band MILKSHAKE will have a special message for all project participants during our kick-off event on May 6th and have given use of their song Superhero for our 2011 project theme. Check it out!
Have you registered yet? More info about the 2011 Alex's Virtual Lemonade Stand Project -- including how to register -- can be found on the MAGPI website.
Thursday, January 06, 2011
Announcing Alex's Virtual Lemonade Stand 2011
When life gives you lemons... make lemonade! Inspired by the journey of Philadelphia-area hero Alex Scott, the Alex's Virtual Lemonade Stand Project celebrates the idea that just one kid can make a difference. Join schools from around the world to raise awareness and money for pediatric cancer research, all while participating in standards-based projects that make the process both inspiring and fun. It's all about kids helping kids - - and we want you to get involved! As part of this two week program, each participating school will hold their own lemonade stands to help raise funds for pediatric cancer. Schools can hold one big lemonade stand day or a series of lemonade stand events throughout the two weeks. They will be able to communicate and interact with one another through a project blog, student-created videos, poster contest and special videoconference events!
Alex's Lemonade Stand is a national organization with Greater Philadelphia roots. The organization grew out of the front yard lemonade stand started by Alexandra “Alex” Scott, a pediatric cancer patient. In 2000, at the age of four, Alex opened her first annual lemonade stand with high hopes of raising money for pediatric cancer causes. Every year thereafter, Alex held an annual lemonade stand in her Pennsylvania front yard and inspired others to donate money to her cause.
Project Timeline
- Online Registration Open: Now through April 15, 2011
- Make a Difference Commercials Due: May 3, 2011*
- Videoconference Testing: April 18 - 29, 2011
- Kick-Off Virtual Pep Rally: May 6, 2011 from 11:00 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT via videoconference
- Lemonade Stand Projects: May 6 - May 19, 2011
- Poster Competition Entries Due: May 13, 2011*
- Wrap-Up Celebration Videoconference: May 20, 2011 from 11:00 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT via videoconference
More information and registration can be found on MAGPI's website. Please note that registration closes on April 15th!
Hope you join us!
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