Eisenhower Students Strive to Improve World, Meet Justin Bieber
Hard working middle schoolers have raised thousands of dollars for projects that bolster education and improve the environment.
The chance to meet pop star Justin Bieber would be enough to motivate most tweens, but students at the Eisenhower Middle School are driving initiatives in support of worthy causes in which they believe. Seventh grades in Bill Holzapfel’s class recently entered — and won — a contest for 50 Nook readers through a fundraiser for Pencils of Promise. The class raised a total of $1,200 in December and chose to donate it to Pencils of Promise, which builds schools in developing countries. Barnes & Noble matched their monetary effort and gave them the Nooks as the top donor of that particular week. “We have spoken often about the lack of funding for education in the developing world,” explained Holzapfel. “But a lot of what made this charity …
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