With their "Rising Up" video posted on YouTube, students and staff at Jersey Avenue Elementary School's
THINK Together after-school program in are in the race for "Miles of Change." Jersey Elementary is located in Santa Fe Springs, CA.
Congrats to THINK Together Site Coordinator Diana Phetxoumphou for this outstanding effort!
Kids at Jersey's after-school program have collected more than 120,923 pennies as part of a Southern California effort that has
200+ schools attempting to collect nearly 8.5 million pennies in all in order to create a chain of pennies 100 miles long and set a new World Record. The kids plan to have their feat reconized in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Ms. Phetxoumphou has collected another 29,077 pennies through online contributions and in all the school has collected more than 1.75 miles of pennies!