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CommunityAuburn High seniors Pearl Simmons and A.K. Jackson started Touchdowns for Diabetes. Neighbors can pledge money for each touchdown or interception, and the gifts stay with a local diabetes center.
Verified · The Observer (Opelika)
CommunityKingsford Middle School set out to raise $500 for the Lake Antoine playground and finished with more than $8,000. With other gifts, the campaign passed its $40,000 goal.
Verified · WLUC TV6
CommunityAlly Financial volunteers worked with students at Neinas Dual Language Learning Academy to redo the community garden, pack hundreds of snack packs, and make over the teachers' lounge.
Verified · CBS Detroit
CommunityFree Guitars for Kids is set to give 14 students at enCircle's Minnick School a guitar, a gig bag, a tuner, and a strap, plus online lessons. The giveaway had not happened yet when the story was published.
Verified · WDBJ7
CommunityErik Chavarria of Hobbs CTECH won $75,000 from Harbor Freight Tools for Schools: $50,000 for his construction program and $25,000 for him.
Verified · 96.3 KKOB
CommunityChilaka Ugobi of Our Redeemer's Christian School, a two-time state spelling bee champion, competes Oct. 14 for the national title and a $100,000 education savings plan. His topic is adult mental-health access.
Verified · KFYR-TV
CommunityCrews hauled out more than 600 tons of debris and refurbished about 40 rooms in under eight weeks. Students marked the return with an oli, hula, a lei for the school, and a run through welcome banners.
Verified · Hawaii News Now
CommunityBradshaw, Iaeger, Coalfield, and Southside K-8 received centers with 3D printers, robots, and circuit kits from the Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation and TC Energy, the first in the state.
Verified · WVVA
HeroesSt. Xavier senior Wyatt Anderson fractured his spine last November. On Sunday he ran the Chicago Marathon with his brother in 3:56:28, and the two raised more than $22,000 for the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.
Verified · WLKY
CommunityUniversity of Kentucky engineering students adapted a ball cannon for 16-year-old Sam Roberts, who has 4H leukodystrophy. His first passes flew while friends cheered, and he will use it with teammates this fall.
Verified · Kentucky Today
CommunityFranklin Alternative School staff and students trained three times a week, and 30 of them finished Moxie's Memorial 5K for the nonprofit that provided Luna.
Verified · Sun Journal
CommunityAurora Public Schools, the Community College of Aurora, and UCHealth are building a magnet school with nursing, imaging, and respiratory-therapy pathways. It opens in August 2027.
Verified · CBS Colorado
CommunityAhead of their Oct. 3 game, Cougs Care and TCU supporters gathered about 650 books plus cash and supplies for Literacy United, which teaches children who struggle with reading.
Verified · Fort Worth Report
CommunityNearly 100 high school robotics students from nine schools, led by Barstow's FRC Team 1939, modified seven toy cars at Variety KC's Go Baby Go build so toddlers with mobility challenges can drive and play.
Verified · KMBC 9
CommunityCASA Encore's dance and banner competition funds volunteer advocates for children in foster care in three north Mississippi counties. Alpha Omicron Pi won for a third year.
Verified · The Daily Mississippian
CommunityMilo, wiliwili, a Moreton Bay fig, and other trees went in at Halewikio Place, the first step toward Ke Ola O ʻAiea ʻOhana Park, with a $34,000 urban-forestry grant.
Verified · Hawaii News Now
CommunitySalt Lake City Public Lands, University of Utah volunteers, and a corrections greenhouse program are replanting the Bonneville Fire foothills to hold the slopes.
Verified · KSL
HeroesLeah Weber, 10, won an Idaho Lottery contest at a University of Idaho game and donated all of it to Fernan STEM Academy for school lunch.
Verified · Coeur d'Alene Press
HeroesJacob Cyprys, who turns 12 on October 11, has raised $1,780 for the HoBOOken 5K and is asking neighbors for $12 each.
Verified · News 12 New Jersey
CommunityMakenna Sandoval and Lilly Prindle of Troop 16336 earned the Silver Award with a native-plant garden at Prince Gallitzin State Park. Each girl put in more than 50 hours.
Verified · Altoona Mirror
ScienceThe district is one of three in the country named a NASA HUNCH Center of Excellence. Students design hardware for the space station and Artemis, and some of their work has already flown.
Verified · CBS Colorado
CommunityThe new Salida School Days program covers mountain access for Salida School District students in the 2026-27 season. Half-day beginner lessons will cost $49.
Verified · Unofficial Networks
CommunityOklahoma State's Construction Management Society built a purple-and-white playhouse in Perkins for Alaina Hammer, who has finished her last round of chemo.
Verified · News On 6
CommunityThe team took the title at Iowa State among 30 district qualifiers. Dayne Chittick won the individual contest, and the top five Iowa schools go on to nationals in Oklahoma.
Verified · KCII Radio