Boosterthon comes back to Mt Laurel

In April 12, Mt Laurel Elementary will host one of the school’s largest annual fundraisers, the Boosterthon Fun Run.

Boosterthon promotes character, leadership, a good attitude, learning and fitness. Each day during the week-long pledge drive, members from the Boosterthon team will be at MLES to pump up students, as well as teach them about American heroes such as Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison, Glen Cunnigham and Amelia Earhart.

This year’s Boosterthon theme is “Highway USA: On the Road to Good Choices.” In conjunction, MLES’s school wide theme is “21st Century School.”

During this fundraiser, which begins April 2 with the students receiving pledges for laps they will run, Mt Laurel hopes to raise $50,000. Proceeds will be used to purchase technology such as iPads, Nooks and new laptops to complete the school’s rolling laptop library.

With this new technology, students will be able to stay in their classrooms and take assessments, hook up their tablet to the Smartboard for presentations and even upload textbooks and apps.

Parents, relatives and friends are encouraged to come out April 12 and support students as they run to help make Mt Laurel a “21st Century School.”

If you or someone you know, would like to make a donation to the MLES Boosterthon Fun Run 2013, contact Nancy Higginbotham at nancyhig@gmail.com.