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!

What a FABULOUS 2011 Project!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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

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!