Comet Chase Lap-a-thon

Friday March 14, 2025

General Event Info

The Comet Chase Lap-a-thon (Ladera’s annual jog-a-thon) will be on Friday, March 14 and is our school’s biggest fundraiser of the year! Comet Chase donations help pay for our Garden Teacher, Maker space & its specialist teacher, Music Specialist for the lower grades, and some Creation Rotation classes like Snapology & more! They also offset costs for Field trips for every grade level, pay for some Assemblies, and put on the fabulous Family Fun events like Movie Nights, Big Boo, Cupid BINGO, and so much more! Thats right, it's the PTA that pays for these wonderful programs that our kiddos have all come to know and love so we really need everyone's help to make it a super successful fundraiser and event.

Even better, because we run this event ourselves, 100% of the profits stay at our school to pay for the cool programs and specialist teachers as mentioned above. Every single student at STARS Academy benefits!

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Lap-a-thon T-shirt Info

WINNER of the T-shirt contest:

Nila from 5th Grade Mrs. Keatt's Class!!

*PLEASE NOTE: All students & staff will receive ONE FREE Lap-a-thon t-shirt.*

Anyone other families or volunteers wanting to purchase T-shirt(s) can do so here:

https://eastwind.printavo.com/merch/laderacomet

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Participation

** ALL students will participate in this event as long as the PTA receives their permission slip. EVERY child will also receive a popsicle after the race if they want one.**

Online permission slips;

English: https://forms.gle/96a7ZRWbYhuJ8fiD8

Spanish: https://forms.gle/JRZohR8cT4ktjkMh8

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Prizes - Individual, School-Based, Classroom-Based, & 'Day Of'

Individual: there are individual prizes students can earn depending on how much they are able to raise. A weekly report is pulled on Saturday evening, sorted on Sunday, and then delivered to classes every Monday during the course of our Comet Chase fundraising. Classroom delivery days will be: 2/10, 2/18, 2/24, 3/3, 3/10, & 3/17.

Winners of the top earner prizes (1st, 2nd, 3rd & top earning family) will be announced at the awards ceremony 3/14.

School -wide: there are also many school-wide prizes that ALL students get to experience (no matter if they are able to individually earn) based on funds raised school-wide. These are super fun activities and it is our hope that we are able to raiser enough money to ensure our students get to experience all the various fun school-wide prizes we have in store of them!

Classroom based: The different classes often also have prizes they can earn too based on class standings. Plus the top earning class from TK-2 & 3-5 get the highly coveted GOLDEN SHOE award!!

Day Of Awards: The top runners from every grade also get an award at the closing ceremony.

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Collecting Pledges (raising money)

Funds can be raised via cash or check using a paper pledge form

Funds can also be raised via online! This year we are continuing to use 99pledges. Families were sent a email on 2/7/25 with their admin page for each child. You can also locate a child's page via going to 99pledges.com/funds/laderastar1 and then inputting the childs name. There you can click to donate or click to share the page via email/social media. For more info about 99pledges, there is a quick start guide.

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Volunteering

We need volunteers from EACH class 'Day Of' to help with lap marking, popsicle distribution, and spraying hair! If you can help please contact your room parent to coordinate this.