Ahead of the Memorial Day Weekend, more than 125 students from across the District joined together at Abington Senior High School on Friday, May 25, 2018, for the annual Abington Community Taskforce (ACT) Teen Forum. Participants spanned grades six through 12, and included representatives from all nine ASD schools. Together, the students worked on a variety of service projects to benefit the ASD school community, as well as its surrounding neighbors.
Among some of the projects completed were the planting of gardens in front of the High School, as well as in the rear courtyard, and the design of a mural for the world language wing. Most notably, however, is that a food drive that the teens organized throughout the month of May, in partnership with the ACT Kid Forum, yielded a donation of more than 4,300 food items, collected across all nine school buildings. The teens sorted and organized the donations – which included non-perishable foods and baby care items – into boxes and delivered them to three area non-profit organizations via school buses. Beneficiary organizations included New Life Food Cupboard, Interfaith Food Alliance and Aid for Friends.