Gavin Strout and Macie Willits Receive the Sandite Spirit Award

Board of Education Member Mike Mullins presented seventh grade students Gavin Strout and Macie Willits with the Sandite Spirit Award at tonight's board of education meeting. Clyde Boyd Middle School Teachers Coy Caviness and Shauna Bush nominated the students for going above and beyond during their fall community service project, the Sand Springs Fraternal Order of Police's annual Shop with a Cop.

Teachers presented their class with the service project and both Strout and Willits ran with it, giving and raising above and beyond the expected amount. 

Caviness said of the students, "They were doing something for someone else, not knowing who it would impact. And it goes directly back to student in Sand Springs."

The program works, when teachers and school counselors nominate students for the program, and, at the event, each family paired up with a Sand Springs Police officer, and they get to shop for their family. Students collected $8,125! Donations sponsored over 162 children in Sand Springs! Caviness added, "We are taking care of our own."