“I got involved with Bikeathon because I wanted get involved with my community, especially my school community. Beyond the Bikeathon event itself, we do a lot of stuff leading up to the event to raise money and awareness. Every year we pick a different charity to support.”
“I really enjoy the sense of community and the mass participation. It’s very special—you don’t get that in every school where you have 1200 kids come out to support something—it’s something special to Strathcona High School.”
“This year the charity is the Jack Davis Hope Foundation. They are a local organization run by volunteers and they help families pay for the cost associated with caring for their ill children. It might be putting a wheelchair lift in their house or something like that. We had twenty-five charities apply to Scona and the leadership team narrowed it down to four and from there we did a school-wide vote and the Jack Davis Hope Foundation won the vote.”
