EDMOND — The Parent Teacher Organization at Centennial Elementary has been busily preparing for the school’s first social fundraising event.
Sheryl Higgins, PTA communications committee chairwoman for the event, said the Buffalo Bingo and Bidding Bonanza will be tonight at the school and will include silent and live auctions.
“We’re a brand new school and we have a fantastic building but we have so many needs. Education is important in Edmond. We want their experience to be all it can be,” Higgins said.
Jessica Franzyk, auction co-chairwoman, said this first social event is important because students at Centennial came from several different elementary schools and it will help form camaraderie among students and families.
“We’ve been promoting this since October,” she said.
Franzyk said they are expecting at least 450 people to attend the event.
One fun feature of the event is that students will get to buy tickets for $1 a piece to enter a drawing for a date with a teacher. Higgins said boxes will be set up for each principal, teacher and counselor so students can choose which teacher they want to try to win a date with.
Students can buy as many tickets as they want, Higgins said.
“One of the very popular ones (dates) is to go to a movie,” she said.
The fourth-grade teachers are teaming up to take all the winners of their dates out for ice cream.
“I believe they (dates) are going to be after school,” Higgins said.
She said people will be able to bid on a variety of items, including a package with two Southwest Airline tickets, four park hopper passes to Walt Disney World and a stay at Nickelodeon Family Suites. The auction also will include an 80-gigabyte classic Ipod that reads “Go Centennial Buffalo” on the back and themed baskets made by each class.
“We haven’t earmarked the money for anything yet,” Higgins said. “We have a lot of needs in the school right now.”
She said a few things they might use the money for include new books for the media center and a new Risograph, a high-speed digital printing system.
The event will start at 5:30 p.m., bingo and the silent auction will start at 6 p.m. and the live auction will start at 7:30 p.m.
FOR MORE information, visit http://www.edmond.k12.ok.us/Centennial/.
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