Kids Making a Difference: Alex's Lemon Drop Blog

Check out Alex's LemonDrop Blog! This is all about kids making a difference. Talk about authentic learning, this is it! Be sure to visit the blog and share your support and encouragement.

This blog accompanies the Alex's Virtual Lemonade Stand Project -- an Internet2 video conference project for grades K-12. This project is inspired by Alex Scott's heroic desire to do for others even as she battled cancer herself. At the time of her death at age 8 she had raised over $900,000 for pediatric cancer research. Since then the Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation has raised more than $10 million for childhood cancer research. Alex attended Penn Wynne Elementary School in the Lower Merion School District (LMSD), and students and teachers at Penn Wynne initiated the virtual lemonade stand video conference last year and are hosting again this year for an even bigger project!

The theme of this videoconference project is "Kids helping kids make a difference" in conjunction with Global Youth Services Day. Each participating school will host a lemonade stand to raise funds for cancer research as well as participating in a variety of other educational activities. The schools will collaborate with each through the Alex's LemonDrop blog and hold a kick-off spirit rally video conference and a closing project collage video conference event.

Just announced today, newly-elected Congressman Joe Sestak (PA, 7th Congressional District) will speak with participating students in the closing videoconference from the Internet2 Corporate Offices in Washington, D.C.