Pennies for Patients
Every single year for 15 years, Poly’s Student Commission has held a big spring project called Pennies for Patients. In this project, boxes are given to all classrooms for donations with all the funds going toward the Leukemia Lymphoma Society. Posters with kids diagnosed with cancer are also displayed in order for the students to put a face to the disease. Although the classroom with the most funds gets a pizza party, the big picture is that the funds are going toward people who have been affected by leukemia. For different students and faculty of Long Beach Poly, it means a lot more to them because they personally know people who have been diagnosed with cancer. With a goal of raising $3,500 dollars, the school is sure to make a big contribution towards the Leukemia Lymphoma Society.
“Personally, I feel that this is a great way to help others who are [suffering from] leukemia,” said sophomore Katherine Khiev.
As the head of the Pennies for Patients project, Khiev has very high hopes for the funds that will be donated this year.
St. Baldricks
Freshman Max Magilnick has made a commitment to raise awareness and funds for childhood cancer, shaving his head every year on March 12 to raise money for an organization called St. Baldrick’s Foundation. All around the world, every single day, this organization shaves people’s hair in an attempt to raise money and awareness to shave childhood cancer off the face of the Earth.
“When I was in 5th grade, my sister got cancer, and I didn’t know what to do. So I tried to find anything that I could and I found St. Baldrick’s,” said Magilnick.
Ever since the age of 10, Magilnick has been passionately finding a way to help his sister and doing whatever he can to eliminate childhood cancer. With the support of family, friends, and even more people from Poly, the impact could even be far greater than that.
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