🌟 🎄 Our hearts are 𝑱𝑼𝑴𝑷𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝑭𝑶𝑹 𝑱𝑶𝒀! 🎄🌟

[A special note from our CEO Director, Hannah Allison]:

This weekend, our 26 Edwardsville CEO seniors poured their hearts, creativity, countless hours (and impressive snow shoveling skills) into bringing a family-friendly event to life — and yesterday, all of their hard work shined.

From designing activities and managing marketing to building partnerships and running operations, these students proved what’s possible when young people are trusted with real responsibility. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒏’𝒕 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕… 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒓𝒂𝒏 𝒂 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒅𝒂𝒚.

𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 — 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖. Despite record breaking November snow and a cold morning, you showed up with the kind of support that reminds us why this program thrives. Seeing families fill the space, kids smiling, and neighbors engaging with student-built experiences made the 14 hour day of snow shoveling and event organizing more than worth it.

Your attendance, encouragement, and generosity help fund not only this class business, but also the launch of each student’s individual venture in the spring. 𝒀𝒐𝒖’𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔, 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒓𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒖𝒓𝒔 — 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒇𝒆𝒍𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚.

✨ To our CEO students: we are so proud of your teamwork, leadership, professionalism, and grit.

✨ To our community: thank you for showing up, for donating, sponsoring, cheering them on, and helping us Jumpstart the Joy of this holiday season

Here’s to an amazing event… and to the incredible young people making it happen. ❤️

𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒖𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒔 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝑬𝑶 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒎 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒂𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒈 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒖𝒓𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒇𝒕 𝒈𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝒃𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒔! 𝑾𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒏'𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅.

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