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Limeades for Learning: SONIC Giveaway

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My husband is a high school teacher, so any promotion that helps teachers, schools and students peaks my interest! SONIC is beginning a program called “Limeades for Learning” on August 31st which will provide grants to U.S. public school teachers to fund classroom projects by partnering with a wonderful organization called DonorsChoose.org, a National leading non-profit website which helps to fund projects requested by teachers.  This September, SONIC will donate more than a half million dollars to fund classroom materials and inspire learning.

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Teachers can register their projects at Limeades for Learning in order to become eligible for the grants from SONIC.  From August 31st through October 1st, each time you purchase a drink from SONIC, it will be specially marked with a unique code that will allow you to vote for your favorite teacher program at Limeades for Learning.  Each week for five weeks, the teacher projects with the most votes will receive funding!  And the giving doesn’t stop there!  Customers that are inspired by a particular teacher project will have the additional opportunity to donate their own money to that project.  From soccer balls to ESL materials, computers to microscopes, these teachers have a mission to teach or youth.  Help support these projects and purchase a SONIC drink today!

SONIC wants to inspire you all to become citizen philanthropists by rewarding TWO lucky Not-So-Blog readers with a $25 SONIC gift card and a $25 DonorsChoose.org giving card.  You will use the SONIC card for yourself and use the giving card to donate towards your favorite teacher project at Limeades for Learning!  It’s a win-win situation!

How to enter:

1. Visit Limeades for Learning and search the teacher projects.  Tell me to which project you would give your $25 giving card.

Additional entries:

1. Blog about this giveaway and link to The Not-So-Blog.

2. Follow me on Twitter (@BridgetteLA) and (@Sonicdrive_in) and Tweet this giveaway. Every time you tweet you get an additional entry! Unlimited! (You must have over 50 Twitter followers to qualify for unlimited entries!)

3. Subscribe to my blog.

4. Become a Fan of The Not-So-Blog on Facebook.

5. Favorite me in Technorati!

Contest ends at 11:59pm CST on September 30th. Prizes not claimed in 72 hours will be forfeited. Open to U.S. Residents only.

537 thoughts on “Limeades for Learning: SONIC Giveaway”

  2. I’d give my card to All I See Is a Pink Blob! It’d be a great gift! Thanks for the giveaway!

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  31. I’d give to the ABC, You Can Help Us Learn To Read! project. I’m all about helping kids develop a love of reading!

  33. I would vote for the Elementary Writers Workshop for the Critically Ill. 100 votes for this project so far, but it isn’t on the first page. There are several pages to look through.

  43. I would pick the “Dream Team Wants to Make a Better Playground” to donate to.

    Thanks for the chance to win!

  44. The Class Room Post Office gets my vote because I know
    how tough it is to have important papers here and there and then
    try to find something you need out of all the scatters.

  50. What a neat program. I would give to I Scream, You Scream, We all Scream When I Sing. I think music is important in schools.

    shannipooh (at) gmail (dot) com

  51. Sculpt and Paint the town Red! Not enough arts and crafts in schools today Being creative – what a joy!

  59. I would donate it to my classroom project that I am getting ready to enter since you informed me of this great opportunity! Thanks a bunch!!!!!

  73. “Just the Basics Ma’am (or Sir)” My son just started preschool and I know how desperate the situation is just getting basic supplies for these and other kids. You can’t do much without the basics

  76. I would give the card to the class that needs the basics I know that without these things kids can’t do anything if they don’t have their basic things

  81. I would give it to the Hands On Algebra. I remember in school I just had such a hard time with Algebra and it sounds like a wonderful project.

  84. I like the searching for knowledge. Dictionaries help provide not only the meaning of words, but also how to spell them. This is a skill that will help the child throughout their entire lives, not just a semester or year.

  85. I subscribe to your blog. Hey, I love the limeades at Sonic, especially the cherry limeade. This is an excellent program that Sonic is doing.

  116. I have a project on the site (Help Foster A Love For Learning!), but if I couldn’t use it towards my own project, I’d choose Horseback Riding With Special Needs Students.

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  125. I’d donate to Mrs. L’s Classroom – Shake Your Social Studies because that was my weakest subject in school.

  126. I would donate it to Mrs. G’s Classroom for Mad Scientist! I may have failed science when I was in school, but I really enjoyed it.

  155. My gift card would go to DANCE! Dancing: Absolutely Necessary for Children’s Education. It’s a shame that the program was eliminated after 20 years!! This is one way children use to express themself.

  157. There are so many good and worthy things needed by each of these entries. I will pick Mrs. A’s classroom with their need for math materials…

  177. Such a wonderful giveaway!

    I would support “It Is “Ruff” for Some Bulldogs to Make Art” in Missouri… an art therapy program for teens with special challenges. As an artist I know that the scissors, paints and crayons they need will help with their expression and help them feel good about themselves. I can’t think of anything better than that.

  183. I would give my gift card to the Patriot Perks Cafe project. I think it’s great that Mrs M want to help her autistic students learn how to be independent.

  225. I’d give to “Expanding the Reading Horizons of Special Needs Students”
    and I’d use my sonic card to buy drinks to get codes to vote for it!

    erauls(at)sbcglobal(dot)net

  234. GIve Kindergarteners the Chance To Read Along.

    If I could vote, I would vote for my favorite project, “Give Kindergarteners the Chance To Read Along”. This is my own project, of course! 🙂 It will fund books for my class of Kindergarteners.

    I don’t live near a Sonic, so I have very little chance to get votes. If I did, I would by Limeades every day, they are yummy!

    Thanks for giving those of us not near Sonics the chance to win a gift card.

    Donna Lacour

  237. I would give to “What’s a school library without shelves”. It is very important to every child’s education to have a library at their disposal. I would spend my sonic $25 card @ sonic to buy more drinks to donate to more schools. This is one of the best programs i’ve come across.

  263. I would give the $25 dollar gift card to a project called Showing Students Electricity. Science sometimes does not get the billing it really needs in schools. In order for students to succeed in our current world, they need to understand how things work.

  272. Share A Chair is the project I pick. Sometimes it’s difficult enough to stay focused at school, even when you have a comfortable place to sit. I can’t imagine how much more difficult it is when you are sitting in a chair that doesn’t fit you. It’s very important to not be distracted when you are trying to learn.

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  290. Love this program!! I’d vote for my project – Wildcat Book Attack! I’m trying to restart out book club for 2nd and 3rd graders. Kudos to Sonic for supporting education!

  306. Tick Tock– Beat the Timer is the project that I’m trying to get funded. It’s for an elementary school that has an extremely high population of children from families that are below poverty level. I commend this teacher for trying to get help for her students and am amazed that she is the only teacher in my town that has entered the Limeades for Learning program and as far as I can tell, I am the only one voting for her project.

  311. I would donate to “If You Could Only See…”. I think a digital projector is something that would get used every single day in a classroom.

  313. I would love it if some of you would use your votes to support my request, “Author, author! We want to be authors!” I teach two groups of special needs students who need these materials to help them develop their writing skills.

  314. I would support Reading for Success, literacy is one of the most important head starts in life I feel that we can give children

  320. I’d donate to the project “On a Roll in AP Physics” Cleveland Sch Sci & Med-Hay Hs.
    They just opened a Sonic near us and I’ve been dying to try them; there’s the perfect excuse to go and also do some good.

  346. I would vote for “News Alert: Bringing Real World News to Students in Fun Ways” because students need to know what is going on in the world around them. Many students are not going to pick up a newspaper and sit down and read it. This project seems to want to bring real news to the students of today in ways that they can understand and learn about it.

  355. I would use the $25 card to help fund my project!! Project title: is Hands on Learning for a Class of Active Boys. We need reading centers to keep little first graders involved!

  370. My husband is a teacher also- elementary, and I am a former special education teacher. We live on his teaching salary because our 11 year old daughter has a physical disability and uses a wheelchair, and I have to be home a lot for her. Our 15 year old son’s teacher has two projects listed so this is my favorite of her two. She is at Tara High School (Tara Trojans) in Baton Rouge, LA.

    The Trojan Book Bazaar!
    The best solution to my problem is providing the project supplies to my students. Help my students share their love of reading! Please help empower my students to create amazing presentations.
    The biggest warning former students give my current students: beware of Ms. Alfandre’s projects! Indeed, my projects are usually big, but they are also lots of fun and very educational. I teach 10th grade English in a public school in Louisiana and the majority of my students are low income and have a reading level somewhere between 4th grade and 8th grade. Many of my students have not read a complete novel–cover to cover–in their entire life. Many have only gone to a library when their teacher has taken them. …

    My students need a flip video camcorder, markers, poster boards, craft sticks and glue pens.
    —————————
    By the way, the kids and I love Sonic’s Happy Hour and I am addicted to Diet Cokes with regular cherry syrup- yes I know it’s extra calories, but like I said- I am addicted!

  383. I would give a $25 to the going buggy project because, I believe it is very important for kids to learn about nature!

  411. I’d donate to the “Close the Gender Gap- High-Interest Books for Boys!”. I have a 5 year old boy who has absolutely NO interest in reading. He says all the books are boring. I know he’s not alone. I think this is a great way to get boys more involved in reading!

  433. I would give my $$giftcard to the No Outsiders Here project. I think teaching 8th grade would be really difficult! I’m spending my codes on that one!

  468. The Limeades for Learning is so popular in our area that the Sonic’s have run out of votes on the Route 44 drinks. That must mean Sonic lovers are doing a great job of drinking limeades or other Route 44 drinks to support the program. I made a run to our local Sonic to pick up 7 Route 44 drinks for the teachers to learn how popular this has become in our area! THANKS SONIC!

  479. I would put my $25 toward funding “The Game is Afoot” The Miracle of Reading Mysteries. I grew up devouring mystery novels and I honestly believe it helped me to reach my potential of being a good student. (I graduated with honors.) Great giveaway!

  485. Please give the 25 dollar dontion to Mrs.P’s class in scottsville ky.Sh wants new cubbies and hthe ones she has is 35 ears old. She is a GREAT teach and really needs these cubbies.

  486. I would donate to “The Game is Afoot” The Miracle of Reading Mysteries, ever since I was a child, mysteries have been my choice. Even now, I can’t get enough!

  494. If lucky enough to be chosen, I would give my DonorsChoose card to Scenic Heights Elementary School in Pensacola, FL — “My physically challenged students need rugs to cushion their seating during indoor and outdoor group activities in our Special Education classroom.”

    Thank you for an inspiring giveaway!!

  522. I would support Expresso Yourself because it furthers student learning in reading and writing for older students.

  530. I love hamsters and rats are nifty and I’m autistic so I would most certainly donate to this!!!! :
    “Ms. B’s Classroom
    Sonic Votes Cast: 24

    Rats!!!!
    You can help my classroom of students with autism to learn to take care of another living animal. (Details)

    My classroom for students with autism needs a Critter Nation cage, cage accessories and food for a pair of rats that have been donated to them.”

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  536. i love limeades thats all i get when i go to sonic i like the pink and the blue ones they are the best ones i am so happy for sonic they should make millions of dollors for limeades i would vote for them eney day sonic you are the best

  537. I would give my $25 to the Super Science Simple Machines project. We need more “out-of-the-box” thinkers and that project will support thinking things through… Thanks!!

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