During the past several months, we have been working with an extraordinary group of kids from Brenham High School student council. Each year, all of the student councils across the state vote to support a common, state-wide fundraising and community service project for the following school year. Our friends from Brenham chose Radio Lollipop as the central focus of a proposal that they presented for consideration as the state-wide project for all student councils in Texas. For the upcoming 2006-2007 school year, their proposal was accepted and they won!! Radio Lollipop and Texas Children’s Hospital will be the recipient of fundraising efforts from student councils throughout the state! Furthermore, their proposal included a community service portion that will also benefit not only TCH, but also encourage teenagers across the state to volunteer at their local children’s hospitals.
To give you an idea of how huge this project is, the Texas Association of Student Councils serves more than 1300 member schools in Texas. Any junior or senior high school, public, parochial or private, may become a member of this organization by paying the annual membership fee. This project will encourage approximately a half million teens across the state to become involved and to support other kids. Their goal is to raise enough money to fully fund Radio Lollipop for an entire year!
Just a few of the things that these amazing kids have proposed: There is a candy maker in Brenham that has given them a bid on making sugar-free lollipops with the Radio Lollipop logo on them. They have discussed the idea of selling Radio Lollipop lanyards and badge holders since so many high schools have ID requirements for their students. For smaller schools, they have discussed having glitter, glue, and material drives for our craft projects. They have discussed having prize drives for us. They have lists of ways for very large schools and very small schools alike to participate.
Radio Lollipoppers at Texas Childrens are very excited about this project and are very proud of this extraordinary group of young leaders.