Students from preschool to the 8th grade participated in this year’s Race for Education and helped raise $43,047 for our Annual Fund. Thank you to our Event Sponsors, Classroom Sponsors, and hundreds of other donors, our students and their families, and volunteers for making our 2022 Race for Education fundraiser a super success. Event Coordinator Christian Delacruz announced the results of the Race during chapels on December 1 and 2 and congratulated 5th grader August Palermo as the Student Grand Prize Winner and Olivia Leach’s second grade class for winning the Class Grand Prize.
“We are very thankful for the tremendous effort that our students made to reach out to family members, friends, and local businesses to ask them to donate to the Race,” Delacruz said. “We reached and exceeded our goal of $40,000 and we had 18 Event Sponsors, a record number of 38 Classroom Sponsors, and 250 Sneaker Sponsors, which helped put us over the top.” Delacruz said Event Sponsors donated $400, Classroom Sponsors donated $200, and any student who received a donation of $50 or more received a sneaker poster recognizing their donor.
A video capturing the Race highlights was shown during the chapels. CLICK HERE to view the video.
The Class Grand Prize Winner — Olivia Leach’s 2C class — raised $2,465 through gifts from sponsors of the 21 students in her class. The class will receive a pizza party or an ice cream party and the choice of an outing to either the Atlantic City Aquarium, Get Air Trampoline Park, or Storybook Land. Student Grand Prize Winner August Palermo raised $940 through gifts from his sponsors and will receive a season pass to Storybook Land in Egg Harbor Township or to Ocean City Water Park as his prize.
Two other classes were recognized for winning the top fundraising prize in their grade category. Jessica Samuels’ PK4B class won the Early Ed Class Prize for raising $1,005, the most among the seven Early Ed classes. Linda Stiteler’s 7th grade homeroom class won the Middle School Class Prize for raising $2,080, the most among the eight Middle School homerooms. Both winning classes will receive an ice-cream party as their prize.
Additional prizes and certificates were also awarded for individual student participation. Sixty-six students from kindergarten to the 8th grade who received three or more donations were awarded a Dress Down Day Pass. Over 70 certificates were given to one boy and one girl from each class (including some ties) who were the top runners on Race Day, completing the most laps in their class.
The student in each grade who excelled in their fundraising efforts and had the most sponsor donations (in some cases there was a tie) received a $10 Five Below Gift Card. The 13 top student fundraisers from each grade were:
• PreK2 – Eleyna Geisenhoffer
• PreK3 – Dustin Samuels
• PreK4 – Azaria Moonesar
• Kindergarten – Minna Ali
• 1st Grade – Felicity Macpherson
• 2nd Grade – Addison Rawlings
• 3rd Grade – Jackelyn Berges
• 4th Grade – Amabella Markert
• 5th Grade – August Palermo
• 6th Grade – Sophia Gomez
• 7th Grade – Liam Larkin
• 8th Grade – Justice Settles
