{"id":2343,"date":"2011-01-20T05:07:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T13:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/?p=2343"},"modified":"2011-01-19T22:03:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T06:03:27","slug":"help-a-catholic-school-win-50000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/help-a-catholic-school-win-50000","title":{"rendered":"Help a Catholic School Win $50,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2346\" title=\"Piqua Catholic School\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/piqua-300x123.png\" alt=\"Piqua Catholic School\" width=\"300\" height=\"123\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/piqua-300x123.png 300w, http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/piqua.png 314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>With Catholic Schools Week just around the corner, here is your chance to make a huge difference to one Catholic grade school.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piquacatholic.org\/\">Piqua Catholic School<\/a> in Piqua, Ohio is competing for a $50,000 prize from Pepsi. The school&#8217;s gym floor is over fifty years old, and if the school wins the money they plan on installing a new floor as well as initiating a before- and after-school fitness program and providing other equipment to make their school a safer place. To help them, simply text 104632 to 73774. You can vote up to three times per day. The ten schools receiving the most votes by January 31, 2011, each win $50,000. Right now, Piqua is in 5th place and they could use your vote! If you don&#8217;t use texting, head on over to their page and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.refresheverything.com\/piquacatholic\">vote via the web<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like a great cause. But don&#8217;t take my word for it. Let the students themselves tell you their story:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"450\" height=\"283\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v8UUgj45UnY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s what Piqua&#8217;s local TV station had to say about the contest:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"450\" height=\"367\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/azn1IdsHjec?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You could also help out by spreading the news to your friends on Facebook and Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Catholic Schools Week just around the corner, here is your chance to make a huge difference to one Catholic grade school.\u00a0 Piqua Catholic School in Piqua, Ohio is competing for a $50,000 prize from Pepsi. The school&#8217;s gym floor is over fifty years old, and if the school wins the money they plan on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/help-a-catholic-school-win-50000\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Help a Catholic School Win $50,000&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[90,28],"class_list":["post-2343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-catholic-schools-week","tag-schools"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prZ8V-BN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2350,"url":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/catholic-schools-week-2011-in-the-news","url_meta":{"origin":2343,"position":0},"title":"Catholic Schools Week 2011 in the News","author":"Deacon Nick","date":"January 24, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Catholic Schools Week officially begins next week on January 30, 2011, but some schools are so excited they just can't wait. 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