AMSA Students raised more than $2,200 for UNICEF

Recently, the Advanced Math and Science Academy UNICEF Club raised more than $2,200 dollars to support the ongoing relief effort in Haiti, following that island nation’s devastating earthquake and subsequent cholera outbreak in 2010.

The club, founded last spring, is dedicated to helping causes sponsored by UNICEF, the children’s relief fund founded by the United Nations in 1946. The club wanted to help children left devastated by the disaster and searched for a novel way in which to raise money.

The solution was having students nominate teachers who would be duct-taped to a wall on the last day of school. Jars were placed in the lunchrooms for the top ten nominees and students and faculty “voted” by placing money into the jars.

Computer Science teachers, Patrick Cullinane (sticking to the wall on the right) and Math teacher Gene Pettinelli (sticking to the wall on the right) who received the most money were taped to a wall at Forekicks, the athletic facility adjacent to AMSA, to the amusement of students, faculty, and administration. The event proved so popular that $700 was pledged in a single day of tape purchasing.