After three long months of daily votes and support from various communities throughout the nation, Sierra Academy was announced the winners for two Pepsi Refresheverything Grants—25K for Sierra Academy’s Life Skills and Transition Program, and 5K for Dr. Sharon Criger, DPT’s “Strong Minds=Strong Bodies”. The grants will be used to expand both programs in order to enrich the quality of life and education for our students.  The 25K will be used to acquire more equipment and computers, assisted devices, and even an additional school van in order to provide the necessary tools and resources for students to transition into the real world. The 5K will be used to acquire new exercise equipment such as medicine balls, weights, recumbent bikes, and an elliptical in order to promote students’ physical and cognitive readiness to achieve success. Also, Pepsi had chosen our school to be used in their NBC news piece!  They filmed both programs in action on September 8, 2010 and the final cut is expected to air in a couple of weeks during NBC’s Morning News segment.  You can follow the programs progress on our Pepsi blogs that will be up in running in no time at: www.refresheverything.com/sierralifeskills and www.refresheverything.com/strongmindstrongbody, so stay tuned!

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Sierra Academy Pepsi Refresh Everything

Pepsi Refresh Project Video
Pepsi Refresh Video