What a night! You helped our 7 Candidate Teams, comprised of 15 local high school students, raise over $130,000 in just seven weeks to help find a cure for blood cancers which is absolutely incredible! Congratulations to all of our amazing fundraisers and thank you to our wonderful supporters! Your donations have fueled the fight to bring an end to blood cancers.

A LOOK INTO THE FUTURE

Do you know who our 2020 Student of the Year will be?

To nominate a student to participate in our 2019-2020 Students of the Year campaign,

visit https://studentsoftheyear.org/get-involved/become-candidate and click “Nominate or Apply”. If you have any questions or want to learn more, you can contact Roger Allen

roger.allen@lls.org

972-996-5915

IN THE SPOTLIGHT!

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Feel free to share this album on your social media and/or directly download the pictures to print. Don’t forget to use the hashtags, #SOY4LLS and #FightBloodCancer, because that’s exactly what we are doing!

WHAT DID YOU THINK?

Did you have a great time at the Grand Finale? What did you love about it? Do you have any suggestions for what we can do next season? Do you and/or your company want to get involved with LLS or Students of the Year on a sponsorship level?

Please share your thoughts, questions or feedback you may have about the event or campaign with: roger.allen@lls.org. 

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Thank you once again for supporting the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

And all of our incredible Students of the Year candidates! Thank you for making a difference in the lives of our patients and their families.

We look forward to celebrating with you again next year!

The 2019 Atlanta Students of the Year Campaign raised just under $1.2 Million in only seven weeks!

Congratulations to our 2019 Student of the Year WINNERS Alexa Levine and Jordan Upchurch!  They raised an unbelievable $193,815!  Amazing job Team CUREageous!

A big congratulations to Price Doherty, Stockton Vohs, and Team MAD Lion for securing the 2019 Students of the Year Runner Up and The Citizenship Award for Volunteerism!

Clara Miller took home the Citizenship Award for Community Involvement, and Team FoCo secured The Citizenship Award for Mission Awareness.

Our Top Fundraiser award winner teams each raised over $50,000!  Congratulations to:

• Team CUREageous
• Team MAD Lion
• Team Freshman Knights
• Team Cancer Crushers
• Team Friends for a Cure
• Team Corts Girls Curing Cancer
• Team FoCo Cure
• Team D.R.E.A.M

Not only are the Students of the Year candidates raisings funds to support The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, they are spreading awareness about the life saving mission!

Check out a few of our candidates who were featured in the local news:

- Team Hope (Lily Seeman & Cassie Trykoff) featured on Cleveland.com

- Team Sisters Saving Lives (Delaney Hill) featured in the Medina Gazette

- Team Rise Up for LLS (Claire Martin) featured on Live on Lakeside

- Team Brave Believers (Bre Magersupp) featured on Cleveland.com

Come celebrate the announcement of the amazing 2019 Students of the Year candidate teams from Honolulu who will be raising funds and awareness for blood cancer research. This event will introduce the 2019 SOY Candidates, the 2019 Honored Hero, and celebrate the beginning of a great and impactful campaign to come. 

Students of the Year is philanthropic competition to support blood cancer research among a group of motivated and dedicated high school students in Honolulu. The Grand Finale Celebration celebrates the end of a 7-week friendly fundraising competition and the announcement of the official 2019 Students of the Year Honolulu winner! 

Congratulations to Charlie Sun for being the top fundraising Team Member. Charlie organized a unique event for Team Hopeful Hearts. Congrats, Charlie!

Our 2019 Honored Hero is Skylar Brownlee!

Skylar was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia at the age of three. After an intense treatment regimen including chemotherapy, she is now a healthy and active seven year old in full remission!

Skylar's Story:

"Right after my dad died suddenly, I stopped walking. My mom thought I was sad, but then the fevers made my doctor think I had strep throat. After I still wasn't walking, blood tests said I had leukemia and I had to live in the hospital for a while. I had surgeries and a port and lots of pill medicines and medicines in my port and in my back that I went to sleep for. I felt very bad and my mom took care of me all the time. So for her birthday I rode a bike after not walking for months! I lost my hair but now it's back and I don't take medicine and I'm in school and  tumbling and ballet and I can do everything I want!"

We are so inspired by Skylar's courage in the face of cancer! She is a remarkably strong young lady. This is why we fight, and we know that beating cancer is in our blood.

Support Skylar and other patients like her with your fully tax deductible donation today, and join Skylar and our 2019 Student of the Year Candidates at the Grand Finale Gala on May 11th! Purchase gala tickets or donate at: https://events.lls.org/sc/greenville19/