Renaissance's Math-A-Thon Will Benefit St. Jude

At Renaissance Middle School, students from grades 6 through 8 are showing off their math skills in order to help children with cancer. Indeed, the students are participating in the Math‐A‐Thon, America’s largest education-based fundraiser and a supplemental math education program to assist St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

According to participants, it costs $1.6 million a day to operate St. Jude, and public donations provide more than 70 percent of the funding. In the Renaissance spirit, students will be participating in the 50th Math‐A‐Thon, helping to make it possible for St. Jude to treat patients regardless of a family’s ability to pay.

Students can gather pledges or donate money into coin jars located in each homeroom. No amount is too small! If you would like to sponsor a child or need further information, please contact Deborah Grasso, math teacher at Renaissance, at dgrasso@montclair.k12.nj.us.

"If people outside of the Renaissance community would like to help out by sponsoring a child, please have them contact me and I will assign them to one of the children," Grasso said. "Checks can be sent to the school made payable to St. Jude Children's Hospital with the child's name in the memo section.

"I will cross reference it with my list to make sure the children receive credit toward the prizes," she said.

For more information about the Math-A-Thon go here.