Wellington Students Join Together To Fight Breast Cancer By Lauren Miró
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Photos Courtesy thinkPINKkids Wellington
(Above) Wellington High School’s thinkPINKkids officers Secretary Eliza Schlein, Vice President Ben Aqua, Treasurer Travis Michaud and President Lindsay Rosenthal at last May’s second annual 5K Walk to Win the Battle Against Breast Cancer. (Background) Students at Hidden Oaks Elementary School in Lake Worth tie up their fundraising effort for thinkPINKkids by creating a pink ribbon.
When a handful of Wellington students wanted to do something to fight breast cancer, they could have staged a single fundraiser, or perhaps join an event sponsored by another organization. Instead, they decided to start their own club. That group — thinkPINKkids Wellington — has since expanded to several area schools from its inception at Wellington High School. A student-run organization, thinkPINKkids helps to bring the community together through various events, planned and organized by students and parent volunteers. It promotes awareness and helps fund research to find a cure for the disease. Wellington High School senior Ben Aqua, the vice president of the club, and his mother Dr. Amy Aqua,
were inspired to bring the idea home while at a baseball tournament in Cooperstown, N.Y. “Some of the kids there had started their own club,” Amy Aqua recalled. “They were throwing out bracelets that said thinkPINKkids on them.” ThinkPINKkids was born as a way for kids to give WELLINGTON THE MAGAZINE • August 2010
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