Brighton High School’s Pink Week, which ran Sept. 18-22, set a new fundraising record this year by collecting $70,250 for the Trinity Cancer Center in Brighton.
What began as an idea from Principal Gavin Johnson in 2012 has grown into a community-wide happening that has raised over $340,000 for the care of cancer patients in the community.
BHS Leadership students began planning this year’s event last spring, with the major work beginning the first week of the school year. Students organized events like the Pink Run and a powder pull flag football game, as well as other fundraising activities, from a bake sale to a car wash.
Businesses and individuals in the community also helped with donations. Even the BHS school store, The Paw, donated all proceeds from the sale of Pink Week shirts. The district’s elementary and middle schools pitched in, too, with various fundraising events, and pink was painted throughout the district.
Pink Week culminated at the Friday Night Pink Out Football game at which survivors were honored at halftime.
The Leadership class is an application-based, hand-on, project-based class that organizes a variety of community and school-wide events throughout the year, providing students with leadership experience and life skills. In addition to Pink Week, students in the class plan and orchestrate pep assemblies, the annual holiday assembly, Operating Christmas Wishes in conjunction with Yoga Strong Foundation, as well as the popular viral BHS Lip Dub.
