Students Raise Money for Oglala Lakota College Scholarship

On Friday, March 30 and Saturday, April 1, two Tandem student groups ran fundraising sports events to support the Oglala Lakota College Scholarship that our Upper Schoolers help fund each year. These two events brought in $900, which, along with other funds raised during the year, will be put towards one student's annual tuition.

On Friday, senior Kalina Zizulka headed up the second annual Serve it Up! fundraising match, with the varsity girls volleyball team taking on a team of Upper School boys in a competitive matchup. The girls defeated the boys in four straight sets, and admissions fees and concessions sales raised almost $400 for the cause.

On Saturday, junior Harriet Caplin led the Tandem Fencing Club in hosting a competition-based fundraiser in the gym in which fencers collected pledges per touch. There were 22 fencers from Tandem, Renaissance, Buford, and the homeschool community to help raise over $500 during the day-long competition.

Our juniors spend a week in the Badlands of South Dakota each fall, experiencing the land and culture of the Oglala Sioux, visiting Pine Ridge Reservation and Wounded Knee, studying local geology, and grounding their year of American Studies through immersion in the heartland. After a visit to the Oglala Lakota campus, students several years ago decided to dedicate fundraising efforts each year to meet the needs of one area student.