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One of the very recent projects I’m working on is with the 21^st Century Fund. We’re planning to create an incentive for Brookline High seniors to want to donate, no matter how small a donation, to benefit classmates in need of a college scholarship. Although we are a very wealthy town and school overall, there are still students who would benefit greatly from financial aid. Our idea is to use wristbands as a gift for those seniors who do choose to donate because they are very cost effective on our part, and they’re also something people would enjoy having- even if only a little bit. At this point in time, we’re sort of frozen in terms of going forwards because the actual opportunity for seniors to donate is a few months away, close to when graduation preparation begins. Lucky for us, school administrators realized how plausible and good of an idea this is, so we’re receiving much needed help and access to resources that would otherwise be unavailable to us. That in itself is amazing because it shows how students can work well and collaborate with faculty outside of the strictly academic atmosphere. As lucky as we are to have that, most other high schools aren’t nearly as blessed. This only gives us a stronger incentive to want to give back to our fabulous community. Among the awesome things the town has agreed to help us with is actually implementing the donation feature into the online store for when students need to check out their graduation gown and cap or what not. This feature makes it very easy to collect and manage the donations without having to do it old school- by hand. While I’m very new to this type of work, I’m also very excited to take part in it and very eager to see it all the way through.