Friday, May 22, 2015

Fantastic Wrap-Up Celebration and Way to Celebrate Our 2015 AVLS Project

WOW!! What an incredible and inspirational wrap-up celebration event yesterday! I am just in awe of all the wonderful work you and your kids put into your stands and your fundraising efforts! Each and every one of you made a difference by participating in this project and helping to increase awareness about childhood cancer and to raise desperately needed funds to help get closer to a cure!

First off - humongous thanks to our uber awesome and professional VJ team at Affiliated High School of Chung Hsing University!! You guys rocked it and were so incredible with your set changes and costumes and professional VJ'ing of our fast-paced celebration wrap-up event. Big thanks for all your hard work in making it all look and flow so beautifully! We are also grateful to you for bringing in your wonderful exotic guest performances, too! 

Our Amazing VJs in Taiwan at 11pm at night!! 
Big kudos to all our winning schools of the optional contests this year including:
Make A Difference Commercial Contest Winner: Affiliated High School of Chung Hsing University
Poster Contest Winner: Hinsdale Elementary (Hinsdale, NY) 
Lemonade Stand Flair Winner: Moreland HIlls Elementary (Pepper Pike, Ohio)

Apologies I could not get the photos of the posters to display during our wrap-up but they are posted below. Thank you to everyone who entered and participated in our optional contests this year!

Our Special Guest HERO Lily Adkins and Her Mom Trish
Building the Largest Cup of Lemonade for Lily's Grand Stand! 
If you missed a moment of our wrap-up celebration, you can always view the now archive at         Feel free to share this with parents, colleagues, administrators or in any follow-up posts you may do. 

Please - if you haven't already, please email me the final exact total amount of money raised by your school/stand so that I can include it in our final tally for the ALSF foundation. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns about how or where to send in your money raised.

Finally, we are over the moon excited that together we were able to raise over $8,000.00 dollars for the Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation! This desperately needed money is helping to bring the latest and most promising life-saving treatments to seriously ill children and to help fund leading-edge cancer research that will one day lead to a cure to end childhood cancers worldwide. To learn more about where the money we raise goes please see http://www.alexslemonade.org/how-your-donation-helps

Thank you all for all the incredible work and effort that you and your students put into this project. Together, we are making a difference... one cup at a time.


Hope to see all of you next year in 2016!!

Affiliated High School of Chung Hsing University Poster Contest Entry
Hinsdale Elementary (Hinsdale, NY) Poster Contest Entry 
Moreland Hills Elementary (Pepper Pike, OH) Lemonade Stand Flair Entry

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Week 1 Updates

We are getting some amazing reports after your first full week of fundraising and lemonade stands! You are all so amazing! Schools are doing an incredible job of making their lemonade stands exciting and creative and so fun!!

Moreland Hills Elementary students picked a sport theme "Kick Out Cancer!" for their stand this year!


Kinston High School had an awesome stand and got some fabulous press coverage too! You can read the full article here.

Hinsdale Elementary in Hinsdale NY exceeded their goal of $100 in their first day and so increased their goal to $400 and are still going strong! 

And Broadway Elementary School in Gladewater Texas (who unfortunately could not join us for the videoconference events this year) has done an amazing job and raised over $4,000 at their lemonade stand this year - INCREDIBLE!!! 

We cannot wait to hear all of our schools report out on Thursday May 21st at our Wrap-Up Celebration event! Won't you join us? 

Anyone anywhere in the world can join the wrap-up celebration simply by web browser using the new Blue Jeans Primetime interactive streaming tool. To view and participate in the live event simply go to: https://a2m.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/qo96233 Invite your friends and family to watch and join us as we raise money to help end childhood cancers worldwide! And you can follow along on twitter using hashtag #avls2015, too.