LHS student body watches as students accept $2000 award from Powerade for a video local students produced

The $2,000 prize, delivered in person during a school rally attended by the student body, was an award for a video the students shot last year. “The video was all about community engagement,” said Al Afaro, Coca Cola’s Business Development Manager for Schools and Education, who was in the school’s event center for the award presentation. “What we wanted was to see community engagement and have (them) tell us what they would do with the money to enhance the community.”

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Powerade offers this award to local schools every year. Lemoore entered its project late last year.

The students who helped create the video included Todd Johnson, Ethan Powers, Nicholas Leon, and Branden Kaiser. The four were present when Powerade’s Silvero Sanchez and Seth Holm handed over the check.

Bueller added that the message of the video was to tie into Powerade’s marketing message, “Just a Kid,” and that Lemoore students can accomplish anything. “We wanted to highlight some of the student success stories from our history and then show our current students and athletes,” he said. “We ended the video on the “who’s next” idea to show that next generation of students who will be at LHS and how we continue to prepare them for anything.”

Bueller said his students are going to enter again next year for the $10,000 grand prize.