RoboCats get $5K from BP America

RoboCats get $5K from BP America

Girard

The high school robotics team received a boost in financial support after a commercial sponsor made a donation to the team at a pancake breakfast Sunday.

BP America presented a $5,000 check to the team, which brought its fund- raising total to $12,500.

The breakfast raised $3,500, while Millwood Incorporated in Hubbard donated $4,000 to the robotics team two weeks ago.

The Robocats are headed to St. Louis for the robotics world championships beginning Thursday .

Judy Barber, team adviser, said the community has shown a tremendous amount of support for the team, and it will help defer some of the trip’s cost.

“We have reached our financial goal,” said Barber. “Now we’re ready to go.”

Enactus students to give to food bank

YOUNGSTOWN

Students in Youngstown State University’s Williamson College of Business Administration student organization Enactus will present the Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley with 1,226 pounds of food and $150 in monetary donations at 9 a.m. Wednesday.

The presentation and reception will take place in the atrium of Williamson Hall on the YSU campus.

A team of Enactus students organized and executed the food drive during April as part of the Let’s Can Hunger initiative sponsored by the Campbell Soup Co.

Nonperishable food items and cash donations were collected from students, faculty and staff of WCBA.

“Considering Feeding America estimates that 39,000 children in our immediate area live in poverty and that 1 in 6 people in America do not know where their next meal will come from, it’s more important than ever to help our neighbors,” Project Leader Paige Rassega said.

Enactus teams across the nation have collectively raised more than 4.3 million pounds of food for food banks since Let’s Can Hunger’s inception in 2009.