GREEN BAY (NBC 26) — Local students have helped raise thousands of dollars for a Green Bay non-profit.
Green Bay Habitat for Humanity says the 5th-grade student planners of the Pi Day 5k committee at Leonardo Da Vinci School for Gifted Learners raised a grand total of $33,336.37 in the virtual 2021 race.
The 5k, held in the entire month of March, was held virtually with racers attending from all 50 states. The money raised goes to to Greater Green Bay Habitat for Humanity to support its Homeownership Program.
According to the non-profit, the students held their first-ever virtual race, conducted all meetings virtually on Zoom or Google, navigated how to successfully create, market, and execute a virtual race and online auction, and found alternative ways to distribute race materials to participants.
"Pi Day has really helped me grow as a person and got up the courage to make phone calls and emails to different people and it’s really helped me grow new skills that I never really had before," said Maria Cristescu, a Pi Day Member and student planner. "It’s really cool being on the Pi Day team and helping people, knowing that you’re helping somebody who doesn’t have as much as other people and needs help, by raising this money we’re helping a person in need and that’s really cool."
The students of the Pi Day committee stipulate that funds raised from the 5k race go to a family, helped by Habitat for Humanity, who has children that will be in the Green Bay public school system.
