Second-grade student Max puts a box of mac and cheese into a pallet.
Students seal the bags of mac and cheese and place labels on them.
Seventh-grade student Khloe weighs the macaroni on a scale
Second-grade student Renee, left, pours macaroni into a funnel as 2nd-grade teacher Jill May and 5th-grade student Daniel look on.
CLARKS SUMMIT — All of the students from preschool through 12th from Summit Christian Academy pitched in to participate in a mac-and-cheese pack-a-thon.
They worked like a well-oiled machine in an assembly line. Some of the students packed the macaroni in bags through a funnel. Some of them weighed the bags, which needed to be six pounds a piece. They placed labels on each bags. Thirty-two bags went into each box. About 55 boxes went into pallets. More than 950 poundsd of mac-and-cheese were packed into one or two pallets.
The mac-and-cheese was picked up by the Commission on Economic Opportunity, affiliated with the Henry & Jeanette Weinberg Food Bank, who delivered the food to distribution centers, food pantries and schools. The mac-and-cheese was made by nonprofit organization, Meals of Hope.
This is the first time Summit Christian Academy was involved in the meal pack-a-thon since the pandemic. They haven’t been involved in it since 2019.
“We were really grateful that they completed this project again, and provided us with the macaroni and cheese,” said Mary Ellen Spellman, food bank director of Commission on Economic Opportunity (CEO).
