Students and staff collected 1,800 cans of donated food this year for those in need.
Social studies teacher Jamie Glinz and his students collected the most – over 800 cans – to win first place in the competition between seventh hour classes.
Second place was science teacher Fred Pellerito and his students, with more 500, and third was math teacher Nedesta Nwabueze and her students, with more than 200.
The winning class receives a pizza party with food from Hungry Howie’s, according to Andrew Green, who sponsors Southfield Student Congress (SSC).
This is the first year that the canned food drive was a group effort with Scholars Plus and National Honor Society members helping SSC collect cans.
The cans are going to 30 needy Southfield High School families along with a $30 gift certificate for a turkey or a ham for the holidays, said Green. The money came from $1,200 collected from two fund-raisers: the Students vs. Staff Volleyball Game and the Stop the Music fund-raiser held during Charity Week in November.