Students' hard work rewarded with trip
Posted on Wednesday, November 19, 2008
High school students are taking college classes and their hard work is rewarded with an educational trip at the end of the semester thanks to the initiative of Tim Pate, advanced placement biology teacher.
Pate began taking the AP science class students on trips and experienced the Grand Canyon the first year and Gulf Shores, Ala., last year. During the trip to Alabama, the students visited Fort Morgan and Dauphin Island Estuarium.
The May 2009 trip is still in the planning stage, Pate said, adding that fundraising is a daunting task when it involves from 25 to 30 students traveling more than 2, 000 miles.
Students are working together in the fundraising activities which have included 50 / 50 drawings at football games and a pancake breakfast at Applebee’s at which the students served breakfast. There will be 50 / 50 tickets sold at Pea Ridge home basketball games, as well.
An additional incentive to this basketball season’s fundraising is an end-of-season drawing for those who buy $ 5 worth of tickets. Supporters who buy $ 5 of 50 / 50 tickets will receive a gold ticket which is put in a separate pot to be drawn at the end of the season. The winner will receive $ 500.
The AP students are also hosting a winter ball at PRHS as a fundraiser.
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