BrocktonPostBROCKTON--Miracle Playground Equipment Company has announced the Kennedy School is the winner of its first-ever Miracle Playground Giveaway Contest and because of an overwhelming show of support, the Kennedy Elementary School will receive a brand-new $25,000 play structure that boasts monkey bars, three slides and a rock-climbing wall.
The Kennedy PTA is still raising funds to install a rubber surface to go underneath the play structure.
The school’s current playground consists of rusted swings and other equipment installed when the building opened in 1965 – equipment that is so unsafe and out-of-date that the children are not allowed to use it.
The Kennedy and more than 150 schools nationwide entered the Miracle Playground Equipment Company’s online contest. Playground Committee Chairs Jennifer Giannaros and Joanna Silverman submitted a picture of the current playground and a narrative of why the Kennedy is deserving of a new playground.
From November 1st to 21st, Kennedy parents and supporters encouraged all of their friends, family and coworkers to vote for the school as part of Miracle’s online voting process on Facebook.
Kennedy came in first in the online voting.
The second phase of the contest required the top 10 vote getters to submit a 3-10 minute video detailing their need and desire for a new playground. That’s when Kennedy 4th Grade Teacher Lauren Roche teamed up with Noube Rateau, Brockton Community Access’s Coordinator of Educational Access Programming, and set to work on the video, which featured the Kennedy Chorus, interviews with Rogan, teachers and parents, and vignettes from students explaining why they wanted a playground.
On December 1st, the school was notified it had won.
To watch the video that helped win the playground, please click on the link below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmYVEDGU2Zg
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