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Months after the final polling for Celebrate My Drive closed and State Farm announced their national winners, RBHS is still deliberating on how to spend the $25,000 allotted to the school, after the 10 percent of the money dedicated solely to promoting safe driving is subtracted, as mandated by State Farm’ contest.
A committee comprised of RBHS students and teachers, and spearheaded by principal Dr. Jen Mast and student activities director David Bones has narrowed the list of potential projects to spend the money on. Following a meeting in late March prior to Spring Break, the committee moved closer to finalizing a decision on the most appropriate way to use the funds.
“Overall I would say it’s going well,” senior and committee member Jack Shimpf said. “We started by creating guidelines for ourselves on how we wanted to spend the money, created a long list of possibilities and narrowed it down from there.”
The committee, wanting to reach as many students as possible with the funds shot down ideas that streamlined the money to a couple specific student groups such as athletics or student council. Finding a way to spend the funds to reach a majority of the RBHS student population was a struggle but the committee is now conteplating the expansion of seating and portable charging stations throughout the school for students and faculty.
“I know that we were met with a lot of really great ideas from students and faculty, but I feel like those two options give us the most bang for our buck,” RBHS art teacher Abby Trescott said, “and also allow us to reach all of the student population and not just a portion of the school.”
Noticing the amount of students who sit on the floor during lunch as they headed to one of their many meetings, the committee brainstormed ideas on how to utilize the funds from Celebrate My Drive to purchase more furniture for students to use not only during lunch but also to work at during classes or AUT.
“One of our goals was to try and make it noticed by as many students as possible,” Shimpf said, “and I think we are achieving that goal.”
With the end of the year quickly approaching and multiple other events that students, teachers and administrators alike must participate and plan, it is speculative if the money will be used by the end of the year. The committee wanted to see that the seniors who participated in the voting got to see the money come to fruition.
“With how busy things get at the end of the year,” Shimpf said, “I would guess that at the latest students will begin seeing the product of the money the first day of the next school year.”
By Brayden Parker
Months after the final polling for Celebrate My Drive closed and State Farm announced their national winners, RBHS is still deliberating on how to spend the $25,000 allotted to the school, after the 10 percent of the money dedicated solely to promoting safe driving is subtracted, as mandated by State Farm’ contest.
A committee comprised of RBHS students and teachers, and spearheaded by principal Dr. Jen Mast and student activities director David Bones has narrowed the list of potential projects to spend the money on. Following a meeting in late March prior to Spring Break, the committee moved closer to finalizing a decision on the most appropriate way to use the funds.
“Overall I would say it’s going well,” senior and committee member Jack Shimpf said. “We started by creating guidelines for ourselves on how we wanted to spend the money, created a long list of possibilities and narrowed it down from there.”
The committee, wanting to reach as many students as possible with the funds shot down ideas that streamlined the money to a couple specific student groups such as athletics or student council. Finding a way to spend the funds to reach a majority of the RBHS student population was a struggle but the committee is now conteplating the expansion of seating and portable charging stations throughout the school for students and faculty.
“I know that we were met with a lot of really great ideas from students and faculty, but I feel like those two options give us the most bang for our buck,” RBHS art teacher Abby Trescott said, “and also allow us to reach all of the student population and not just a portion of the school.”
Noticing the amount of students who sit on the floor during lunch as they headed to one of their many meetings, the committee brainstormed ideas on how to utilize the funds from Celebrate My Drive to purchase more furniture for students to use not only during lunch but also to work at during classes or AUT.
“One of our goals was to try and make it noticed by as many students as possible,” Shimpf said, “and I think we are achieving that goal.”
With the end of the year quickly approaching and multiple other events that students, teachers and administrators alike must participate and plan, it is speculative if the money will be used by the end of the year. The committee wanted to see that the seniors who participated in the voting got to see the money come to fruition.
“With how busy things get at the end of the year,” Shimpf said, “I would guess that at the latest students will begin seeing the product of the money the first day of the next school year.”
By Brayden Parker
