Sixth-graders raise $500 for Mote

A sixth-grade class at Bradenton Christian School raised more than $500 to benefit Mote Marine Laboratory’s Turtle Hospital. 

After learning about turtle nesting season in Tracy Hodges’ social studies class on Earth Day, the class decided to hold a bake sale to benefit the hospital. 

“We want to make sure if a turtle is stranded or injured that the hospital will have money to take care of her,” sixth-grader Makenna Hermann said in a press release.

The students had the goal of raising $200 at the bake sale April 30 and raised more than double — $528.77.

“Every time someone walked by, the students would shout, ‘Save the turtles!’” Hodges said in the release. “They did a great job educating our community as well as raising money for Mote.”

The donation will be presented to Mote when staff members visit the school’s end-of-the-year awards ceremony May 18.