Mattie wasn't quite on the news!

This is a really cool thing that happened towards the end of the school year in May. Mattie's friend Hannah came up with the great idea of collecting funds to send to help Japan with their earthquake/tsunami disaster. She and Mattie made encouraging announcements over the intercom and the kids at the school all collected change. The girls presented their plan at a PTO meeting and convinced the PTO to match their contribution funds (they were happy to). The Marie Hughes students raised almost exactly $500 in change, which Hannah's mom took Mattie off to the bank to have counted. Then a representative from the Red Cross came to the school to pick up the checks in person, and a reporter from Channel 4 News also came and interviewed the girls and recorded the lady from the Red Cross thanking them. Unfortunately the segment was never aired, but fortunately I'd also recorded most of it with my camera.  (We were bummed - we watched a ton of news that day and the next morning, and we didn't think there was anything in particular that was important enough to have bumped our girls!)

Here the girls are just as the reporter was getting set up to interview them. (Then I switched to movie mode, no photos.)



And here is the segment that I think I can fit on the blog. The lady from the Red Cross was very nice and appreciative - I think the whole thing left a very positive impression on the girls, hopefully other students too, and on the school as well.