This month, students in Mrs. Meghan Boland’s Human Anatomy and Physiology class have been in charge of different fund raisers to raise awareness and money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). Muscular Dystrophy is a group of progressive muscle disorders caused by a gene defect that is characterized as irreversible wasting of skeletal muscles.
Boland had the idea to break her class up into groups that would come up with a unique fund raising idea and put it into action. Each group also researched a specific muscle disease and presented the information they discovered to the class. In addition to raising money for charity, the group that raised the most money at the end of the muscular dystrophy unit were permitted to create the study guide and other review material in place of taking the unit test.
“These fund raisers are for such a bigger cause than just raising the most money in our class. It’s a great opportunity to raise money to help save lives for people in need that suffer from muscular dystrophy,” Senior Hunter Bonzo said.
Not only were these fund raisers for a great cause, but many students and faculty got on board to participate and donate to this great cause.
The fund raisers for muscular dystrophy included an ice cream eating contest, pretzel sales, hoagie sales, a prom ticket raffle, donations to have teachers do something out of the ordinary as well as a chance to win Principal Timothy Dadich’s parking spot.
“I wanted to do the ice cream eating contest because I really like ice cream and the money was going to a good cause,” Freshman Lindsey Moldovan said.
In total the groups have raised $1,140.51 for the MDA. The group that raised the most money for the MDA were Seniors Kayla Angeline, Lexi Hancock, Sydney Kaercher and Caitlyn Sherrock. The group raised $650 with their hoagie fundraiser.
“We’re really glad we sold so many hoagies and could support [the fight against] muscular dystrophy,” Lexi Hancock said.