Students Collect 600 Pairs of Shoes

During the month of February and part of the month of March, students and staff at Penta Career Center generously donated 600 pairs of shoes to Soles4Souls, a global not-for-profit institution that collects new and used shoes and then distributes them to people in need both in the United States and overseas. Soles4Souls is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Organized by Penta’s Student Leadership Team and the National Technical Honor Society, the drive involved a contest among the academic and career-technical classes. The class with the most shoes collected was treated to a pizza party. The winning class, with 195 pairs of shoes collected, was the Medical Technologies program and instructor Jill Heintz. On March 21, the 600 pairs of shoes were boxed and shipped to Soles4Souls.