WOW! Congratulations to all of you for TRULY AMAZING job raising money and awareness for Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation these past two weeks!! Bravo!!!

And what an awesome celebration VC event to end our time together for the 2012 project! If you missed it (or if you want to share it with parents and administrators) you can watch the archived video of today's celebration videoconference at: http://video.magpi.net/videos/video/434/

I want to give a very special thanks to our student VJs at National Dali HIgh School who did such an incredible job VJing today!! You guys were fantastic!! Aslo many special thanks to Jenny, the student musician from Taiwan who performed the Chinese pipa so beautifully for a global viewing audience today as a special live tribute to our childhood cancer hero Cameron and to his and all the families worldwide whose lives are impacted directly by your fundraising efforts!!

And many special thanks to our childhood cancer hero Cameron (and his mom Jennifer and dad Chip, too!) for taking the time to come in and share his story with our schools!

Together you all raised over $13,000 to help fund critical research in pediatric cancer which will save lives of other children like Cameron who we heard from in our celebration VC, Lily who you heard from in our kick-off event and of course, Alex's whose beautiful message of hope lives on in each of you through your efforts in this project.

As best as we could capture it, here are the total amount of money raised from our participating schools:
Crooked Billet $ 920.17
Fernwood Middle School $ 900
Hallowell Elementary $ 1,256.39
Kinston High School $ 500
KD Markley Elementary $ 1,325
Montana School for the Deaf and Blind $800
Moreland Hills Elementary $2,168.25
National Dali HIgh School $1,531
Sara W. Starkweather Elementary $1,000
Southern Lehigh Middle School $ 500
Southern Lehigh Intermediate School $550
W.H.Council $616.80

That is more than $13,000 raised to help save lives and end childhood cancer -- INCREDIBLE!

If you haven't sent me your total raised yet please do so we can provide a final total to the Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation. Please used the envelopes sent to you in your lemonade stand supplies packages to return any money raised to the Foundation within the next two weeks. If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

Some final kudos and congratulations to ALL our winners:

Winners of the Poster Contest:
Crooked Billet Elementary (Elementary/Middle School Category)
National Dali High School (High School Category)
Honorable Mentions to Hallowell and WH Council Elementary


Winner of the Make A Difference Commercial Contest:
Moreland Hills Elementary

But you are ALL winners and heroes to me!! Thank you so much everyone for all that you do! See you in 2013!!

Wow everyone! The Celebration Wrap-Up Videoconference is almost here! I just had to take a quick minute to share this amazing TV news clip of our team from Kinston North Carolina who were featured as a "School Star" on Channel WNCT-TV 9. Incredible!! Congrats to Kinston for a great stand and being selected as your local "School Stars"!!

2012 Poster Contest Entries Now Online

Here are the poster contest entries for our 2012 project! Thank you to everyone who submitted a poster! Our judges at the University of Pennsylvania are reviewing this based on the rubric viewable online. The winners will be announced during our Celebration VC tomorrow!

Poster entries from WH Council

Poster Entry from Moreland Hill Elementary

Poster Entry from Hallowell Elementary

Poster Entries from Crooked Billet Elementary

Poster Entry from National Dali High School

(Note: If you submitted a poster and it's not displayed here please contact me asap and I'll make sure it gets on the blog and is considered in the judging.)

Check out our team of students at Schuylkill Elementary working hard on their posters! Schuylkill is holding their very own Alex's Lemonade Day today Friday May 18th at 2:15pm! They're shooting for 100% participation for lemons! Good luck guys! You can do it! We can't wait to hear about it next week in our celebration VC!

Crooked Billet update

We have 3 days left in our lemonade sale.  We have about $435.00 so far!  We've had people fill out a lemon for each donation and are having a drawing for prizes on our last day of sale, which is also field day!  Good luck to all schools.  We are also emailing several poster contest entries to Jennifer today.

May 15, 2012

Mrs. Monday Davis' 1st Grade Class at W H Council is excited about running our lemonade stand this week. We will be officially selling lemonade Thursday and Friday this week at the end of each school day. What a refreshing way to relax at the end of a busy school day! Our school is currently preparing for our end of the quarter testing next week. Students have designed posters to promote our upcoming lemonade event and have placed them all around the school grounds. First 25 students to purchase a cool glass of lemonade will earn a student-designed bracelet to commemorate our united stand against cancer. Our class is thrilled to finally have the opportunity to run our own business as a culminating activity for our IB economics unit of study. More importantly though, this will serve as part of the healing process for a student in our class who had lost her mother to cancer this spring. Our class hopes to COOL ALL CANCER!

Congrats to Schuylkill Elementary

Daily Activity Report - Friday May 11, 2012

Let's get a "woo-hoo" for Schuylkill Elementary who is shooting for 100% participation goal for lemons at Schuylkill Elementary! In honor of Alex's leadership and as part of their Alex's Lemonade project, we are creating lemon, leadership posters for each homeroom. Each student has to earn a lemon by doing an act of leadership. On May 18, Schuylkill is having an Alex's Lemonade Day. Students must donate $1 to wear a crazy hat or crazy hair. Our home and school association donated the lemonade for the day so we will all share some lemonade "extra sweet and icy cold" in honor of Alex. Congrats to Schuylkill Elementary for their outstanding work so far!

Just Getting Started with Lemonade Stand

Crooked Billet is selling after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays and during lunch/recess on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays for 2 weeks.  Today was our first recess sale, and we sold out of regular and sugar free lemonade!  We have made almost $200.00 in our first 2 days of sale.  The kids are totally jazzed about working their "shift" at the stand.  Our goal is to reach $1,000.00!  Good luck to all the other schools...I will try to post some pictures of our stand soon.

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!

Our kick-off event is almost here! We're so excited to hold our opening event and spirit rally on Tuesday May 8th. Join us by watching the LIVE WEBSTREAM at http://video.magpi.net/ at 11 am EDT. You can send in your questions via twitter using hashtag #AlexsLemonade. Here's a sneak peak at our student VJ team from Crooked Billet rehearsing for the big event tomorrow!

New to Alex's stand:2012

Hi there everyone. My name is Ms. Anderson (mamaruth) and I have gathered a team to try this out for the first time ever. We are excited to be a part of this experience this year. My team of juniors are gearing up and ready to go.
We hope to make a difference and contribute to this worthy cause.
Thank you Magpi for all you do to make such events take place. Our hat is off to you too!
Go get 'em everyone. And good luck to all the 2012 teams!
mamaruth

Announcing our 2012 Schools

We're thrilled to announce the schools participating in the 2012 Alex's Virtual Lemonade Stand project. This year's schools are:

Kinston School, North Carolina
Moreland Hills Elementary, Ohio
Southern Lehigh Middle School, Pennsylvania
East Stroudsburg High School - South, Pennsylvania
National Dali High School, Taiwan
Schuylkill Elementary School, Pennsylvania
New Castle County Vocational Technical School District, Delaware
Egg Harbor Township - Fernwood Middle School, New Jersey
Crooked Billet Elementary School, Pennsylvania
Craig Hill Elementary School, Pennsylvania
Sarah W. Starkweather Elementary School, Pennsylvania
Southern Lehigh Intermediate School, Pennsylvania
W. H. Council School, Alabama

Welcome to all our 2012 participants! We can't wait to work with you to help you develop your lemonade stands and related projects and help raise money to help end childhood cancers worldwide!

First Time Participants in Alex's Lemonade Stand

Hi!  My name is Michelle Quartullo and I teach 2nd grade at Crooked Billet Elementary.  My class is participating in the program for the first time.  I would love to hear any advice from experienced schools to help us get the most out of it and ways to raise as much money as we can!  I'm also not sure what to prepare for the first video conference.  If anyone could share what is expected for the kickoff, I would appreciate it!  Looking forward to helping out.

Announcing Alex's Virtual Lemonade Stand 2012 - Registration Closes April 13th

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 13, 2012

Make a Difference Commercials Due: May 1, 2012*
Videoconference Testing: April 16 - 27, 2012
Kick-Off Virtual Pep Rally: May 8, 2012 from 11:00 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT via videoconference

Lemonade Stand Projects: May 8 - May 22, 2012
Poster Competition Entries Due: May 17, 2012*
Wrap-Up Celebration Videoconference: May 22, 2012 from 11:00 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT via videoconference
Requirements for participation? All you need is a H.323 videoconference gear.

More information and registration can be found on MAGPI's website. Please note that registration closes on April 13th!

Hope you join us!