Box tops raise 300 dollars for school

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  • By Senior Airman Veronica McMahon
  • 325th Fighter Wing Public Affairs
TYNDALL AIR FORCE, Fla. --  Three thousand box tops from various grocery and household products were dropped off to Tyndall Elementary raising roughly $300 for school materials through the Box Tops for Education project Feb. 12.

Each box top is worth a 10 cent donation toward the school, said Staff Sgt. Thomas J. Ryan, Det. 1 823rd Red Horse Squadron Fire Contingency Instructor and project point of contact. The box tops were collected in six months, and it was a joint effort by the AAFES Tyndall BX team and the Silver Flag Exercise Site team.

Libbie Pippin, Tyndall Elementary School principal, was there to collect the box tops.

"Community support is vital to what we do here on our campus," said Ms. Pippin. "It's so meaningful to us that people who might not even have children care enough about education and our future to enrich this program at our school."

Ms. Pippin said the students also bring in box tops from home, and gain incentives from the school.

"The program has provided some very important materials to our students especially with the budget cuts," said Ms. Pippin. "For example, it has helped with our two computer labs."

Box tops are on many products found in grocery stores and on school supplies, office supplies, paper products, waste bags and baby and child care products. An individual just has to cut out the box top, which reads 'Box Tops for Education' and drop them in the bin in the BX entrance.