Middle Country Central School District’s Jericho Elementary School students recently participated in a Math-A-Thon competition sponsored by St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital to help raise money and increase awareness of the groundbreaking work done at the Memphis-based research hospital. The school’s first-grade through fifth-grade students completed grade-appropriate math tasks as the foundation of the fund-raising effort.
“It’s truly amazing to see what we can do as a community,” said Elena Baldwin, Principal of Jericho Elementary School. “Special thanks to Carolyn Raynoha who organizes and spearheads Math-A-Thon each year. Your dedication to your students and giving back to the community is admirable!”
This was the eighth year that the school has worked with St. Jude’s. This year, the students’ efforts resulted in $6,501 being raised for the hospital. Over the course of eight years, Jericho Elementary School students have raised $76,615.
“The students truly enjoy and look forward to the Math-A-Thon,” said Carolyn Raynoha, Jericho Elementary School’s fourth-grade teacher. “This program aligns with our Character Education efforts, and more specifically with this month’s theme word which is caring.”
The St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital is world-renowned for its work in treating and fighting childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Treatments developed at St. Jude’s have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20% to more than 80% since it opened over 50 years ago.
