Students in the Business Professionals of America (BPA) student organization at Eastland Career Center collected more than 60 pounds of pop can tabs to be donated to the local Ronald McDonald House.
October 12, 2023
From the Eastland Career Center
Students and staff from Eastland Career Center banded together to make a sizable donation to the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio. Through a campus-wide competition students in the BPA career-tech student organization collected more than 60 pounds of pop can tabs, which were donated to the Pull Tab Initiative.
Over a two-week span, students across all program labs at Eastland Career Center (Groveport) pulled together for a friendly competition that would simultaneously support the local charity. Students from the Business Professionals of America (BPA) student organization rounded up and weighed each lab’s collection of pop tabs to determine a winning program.
Students from the Aviation lab made the largest donation of tabs, weighing in at 20.76 pounds. This accounted for more than 30 percent of the total tabs collected. For their efforts, BPA celebrated with the Aviation students by treating them to a round of cupcakes.
The biggest winner was the Ronald McDonald House and the families that they serve. The Eastland Career Center chapter of BPA donated 68 pounds of pop tabs, which equates to roughly 68,000 tabs. Those tabs will be recycled in order to generate revenue used to help families with children receiving serious medical treatment.
Business Professionals of America (BPA) is the premier career and technical student organization for students pursuing careers in business management, information technology, finance, office administration, health administration, and other related career fields.
With 45,000 members in over 1,800 chapters across 25 states and Puerto Rico, as well as an international presence in China, Haiti, and Peru, BPA is an organization that supports business and information technology educators by offering co-curricular exercises based on national standards.
Eastland-Fairfield programs at Eastland Career Center affiliated with BPA include Interactive Media, Programming & Software Development, and Medical Office.
For more information about the Ronald McDonald House of Charities and the Pull Tab Initiative, click here or visit www.rmhcneo.org/ways-to-give/pull-tabs.
