In response to new FCPS regulations prohibiting bake sales on school grounds before 2:40 p.m., National Art Honor Society has entered into a collaboration with the orchestra to hold sales during concerts.
NAHS president, senior Ladan Karim-Nejad, and vice president, junior Samantha Van Heest, hope to use concert bake sales to raise money around the new regulations.
“We have a big memory project coming up and we need to raise a lot of money for it,” Van Heest said.
The memory project is a relatively new charity idea in which NAHS receives pictures of orphans in the Phillipines, Mexico, and Haiti and sends back painted portraits of the children. To keep this project running, NAHS needs to get funded past the $60 students must pay for art supplies because portraits cost $15 to send out.
“Due to bake sale fundraising becoming far more difficult and unrealistic, we needed to find new ways to earn money for our future projects,” Van Heest said.
Since there will be overcrowding during this upcoming winter concert, NAHS must wait to hold bake sales until the spring concert season.
“One of the biggest cons of fundraising is the regulations; we are not allowed to sell from midnight to 2:40 p.m. However, with the fundraiser we will be able to reach out and do more projects with more money,” Karim-Nejad said.
Both presidents of NAHS believe that the fundraiser will benefit the club and its members, including their sponsor, art teacher Nicole Walter. NAHS is also preparing for its induction ceremony on December 11 and for a large project it will be doing.