Cocoa Beach Third-Graders Raised $4,200 for the Sea Turtle Hospital
A classroom project became a community fundraiser with handmade art, lemonade, and a lot of determined eight-year-olds.
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What made it work
- A specific local goal
- Small ways for neighbors to participate
- Photos and quotes that center the students
Claire Szewczyk
Claire has called Florida home for a decade, but her love of the Space Coast goes back further — to the beat-up Kennedy Space Center coffee table book she found in a thrift store when she was five. She writes about the people, places, and history that make Brevard County great, and those stories are where Brightside Brevard began.
