PJ Day at NHS Raises Funds and Awareness for CT Children’s Hospital

Science National Honor Society members at NHS make posters to raise awareness for the “PJ Day” fundraiser to benefit CT Children’s Hospital. Students at NHS raised $350 for the organization.

Mitchell Brooks, General Assignment Reporter
April 30, 2021

WOODBURY — The Science National Honor Society at Nonnewaug hosted a “PJ Day” fundraiser to benefit CT Children’s Hospital. Students at NHS had the option to wear pajamas to school, and donations were collected throughout the school day. All the proceeds from the fundraiser were donated to the Connecticut Children’s Hospital.

According to a statement from CT Children’s Hospital, “ PJ Day for the Kids is a statewide event that helps fund research and care for kids at Connecticut Children’s. {In previous years] over 360 schools and 180 businesses participated.”

April 9th, the day of the fundraiser, student members of the NHS Science National Honor society collected money before school and during the lunch waves. By the end of the day, $350.00 was collected.

NHS science teacher Shelly Stone, leader of Science National Honors Society, put the money and the request for the donation into the central office on April 9th. Then the check will be cut and sent to Connecticut Children’s Hospital.

Stone stated, “We wanted to raise awareness for the CT children’s hospital and support future research.”

More information on the CT Children’s Hospital “PJ Day” fundraiser can be found on the hospital’s website or via this video link.

Image Courtesy of CT Children’s Hospital

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Mitchell Brooks, Reporter

Mitchell Brooks is a general-assignment reporter for the NHS Chief Advocate. He is currently a senior at Nonnewaug and has not had any past experience in journalism. Mitchell hopes to inform all students of events and happenings at Nonnewaug that he may not have heard of previously in hopes of helping everyone feel included in these future events. He wants to recognize things that aren't noticed very much. Mitchell grew up in the woods of the little town of Bethlehem with his two parents and four siblings (with a very hectic house at times). Despite that, he has grown up very family-oriented, and has always been a very social person, spending almost all his time out with friends and away from home. Mitchell hopes to utilize these communication skills he's practiced throughout his life with many people in the business field, and hopes to help others as much as he can in the future.