Thursday, June 2, 2011

Panamerican School: Spring 2011

Panamerican School was equally excited to share their accomplishments. Panamerican School has proven itself as one of the best international schools in the game. They are incredibly excited about Balboa's accomplishments, telling Balboa club members, "Panama has strong student clubs that are making the difference! Keep up the good work Balboa." Eager to be nominated for the Outstanding International Club of the Year at ISCE in Beijing, Panamerican School has certainly gone above and beyond expectations.

Key Panamerican School leader Ana Isabel Correa shared a list of their hard work:


-$200.00 spent in the U-LEAD t-shirts. (First conference)
-An operation smile speech in our school. 8 9 and 10th graders attended and we got 78 new members for our student club.
-$120.00 at SANTOS restaurant. (Fundraising activity)
-$900.00 collected from Coco & Friends Concert. (Balboa gave us 250.00 from their sold tickets)
-$600.00 which will cover more than a half of the smile bags we are giving the children in the cleft lip and palate mission. This activity is being done in conjunction with the Balboa Academy High School.
-$862.00 for the gifts that we are going to give to the patients in the local mission.
-$200.00 for psychological toys that we are going to give in the local mission.
-$840.00 collected from theater ticket sales for Gala performance of the "Sound of Music".
-$200.00 collected from a Bake Sale which was done in the performance of the “Sound of Music”.
-$450.00 collected to cover all the kitchen stuff for the Local Mission Hostel.
-$50.00 for operation smile t-shirts.
-$50.00 collected from the sold operation smile tattoos.
-$600.00 from “What Makes You Smile” activity. (Operation Smile photo day at Panamerican School)
-$815.00 collected from the baby fair. (Operation Smile stand)
-We planned and ran our own U-Lead. (2nd conference in Panama this year)

$5637 collected and spent in Operation Smile :D

Wow! That's amazing Panamerican School. Keep up the good work. I know this is just the beginning. Those other international schools better watch out.

Balboa High School: Spring 2011

Balboa High School was one of the larger groups that attended our U-Lead Conference in March 2011. They are a newer club than the Panamerican School but showed major drive to become the best. By attending the conference, leaders of Balboa High School gained new tools to grow their new club.

Club president Conrad Frey shared their accomplishments with us at the beginning of June:

Balboa High School Operation Smile is proud to announce their accomplishments for their first two months as a Club:
• $1100.00 collected from theater ticket sales for Gala
performance of the "Sound of Music"
• $1000.00 to cover the 200 manuals that we will get printed
for speech therapy that children receive post-op.
• $250.00 which will cover ½ of the smiley bags we are giving
the children. This activity is being done in conjunction with
the Panamerican School.
• Awareness campaigns across all schools PK, Elem, Middle
& High school have been successful. In fact, 2 weeks ago the
MS dragon activities were related to Operation Smile.
• Fundraisers have been successful by raising over $2200
since the club’s creation only 2 months ago!
• Nominated for Best New Student Club of the Year (at the
ISCE leadership conference in Beijing)!


Way to go Balboa! Keep up the good work.