In support of Northwest Assistance Ministries (NAM), the International Business Academy (IBA), a Klein ISD magnet program open to schools from all attendance zones, collected canned food for the NAM Food Drive. The food drive was a vehicle for raising money for the program and for applying learning to a real life situation.
The project was created in the Algebra II IBA class where the students acted as a project management team. The students used algebraic functions to determine how much money could be raised from donors based on a canned food drive. Students sent letters to potential donors asking for a donation based on the number of cans raised. Once the information was determined, students were required to present the information for staff approval.
Once approved, students moved into the marketing/management phase. Students had to determine how to market this information to their peers, how to advertise to the school, and how long to collect cans. Students created a letter and brochure to send to 300 potential donors.
At the conclusion of the collection phase, students had collected 2,197 cans/non-perishable food items to donate to NAM.
