USCHS juniors raise $41,658 to fight cancer
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Upper St. Clair High School juniors Dylan Childs and Peter Markovitz along with their team, Team Panthers Kicking Cancer, raised $41,658 as part of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) 2025 Student Visionaries of the Year program.
Student Visionaries of the Year is a seven-week fundraising challenge where high school student leaders raise money and awareness for the fight against blood cancers. Students utilize their personal networks to solicit donations, ask businesses for support and rally the community to support them and the cause.
“This year, 17 high school candidate teams came together to raise over $552,944 towards our mission,” Erica Gribbin, campaign development manager at LLS, said. “This is truly an elite group of students. We count ourselves lucky to have had Dylan and Peter as a part of this campaign to represent Upper St. Clair!”
This year’s campaign kicked off on Feb. 7, 2025, and culminated at the Grand Finale Gala, on March 28. The funds raised benefit the LLS mission: to find a cure for leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and to improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
Dylan and Peter are active within the Upper St. Clair High School community. Both serve as Junior Mentors and Natural Helpers. They are members of Student Council and compete on the boys’ soccer team.
- USCHS