ALEXANDRIA, VA – Alexandria public college college students taking part within the many actions supported by Move2Learn, an award-winning 501(c)(3) group, are used to leaping, dancing, and shifting. In any case, the aim of the group is to show college students find out how to acknowledge and handle stress, anxiousness, and different robust feelings utilizing motion.
On Thursday, October 19 on the George Washington Center College, nevertheless, Brooke Sydnor Curran (president and CEO of Move2Learn), college students, and attendees have been actually leaping for pleasure as Rita and Chris Foss, house owners of Ironistic, an Alexandria-based digital advertising and web site growth company, introduced Move2Learn with a $48,000 verify as its designated beneficiary of the 2023 RUN! GEEK! RUN! race.
“We’re so grateful to RUN! GEEK! RUN! for his or her perception within the Move2Learn imaginative and prescient to rework studying via motion and their belief in us as this 12 months’s beneficiary,” Curran stated. “We additionally recognize the entire superb race sponsors for serving to make this spectacular occasion occur, with a particular shout-out to The LizLuke Group and Rosemont Landscaping and Lawncare, each longtime Move2Learn sponsors as properly.”
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Since 2016, the annual RUN! GEEK! RUN! has raised over $180,000 for native charities, with this 12 months’s verify being the most important donation. “It’s a number of work,” admitted Rita Foss.” She then gestured to the dance troupe composed of a number of middle-school ladies and proudly added, “Because of this we do it.”
The power was palpable at Thursday’s celebration because the GW Prexie Line Dancers, a bunch of center college dancers underneath the path of George Washington Center College lecturers Michelle Cole, Tonya Taylor, and Nancy Avila, carried out a number of dances, together with one through which Rita Foss and Eugene, the RUN! GEEK! RUN! mascot participated.
Move2Learn stated that throughout the 2023-24 tutorial 12 months, it anticipates delivering 70 Move2Learn Energetic Seating Packages to profit greater than 1,750 Alexandria public college Ok-12 college students; managing 20 Out-of-College Time Packages, together with 10 returning packages and 10 new packages; and creating 5 further Move2Learn social and emotional classes for Ok-12 college students and lecturers.
College principal Jeanette Vinson stated that the cash would “play a vital function in enhancing the experiences of our college students and empowering them to discover the enjoyment of studying and the enjoyable of line dancing of their out-of-school time.”
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