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Who Won the Car for Perfect Attendance, Senior Year, 2nd Semester?
More than 200 high school graudates were eligible to enter a contest to win a car for perfect second-semester, senior-year attendance in an event presented by the Hillsborough County School District and sponsored by Toyota of Tampa Bay.
For Brenna McPhee, perfect attendance paid off in a big way when the Armwood High School graduate took home a brand new 2012 Scion XD car from Toyoto of Tampa Bay on June 16.
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McPhee was one of the more than 200 graduating seniors from the Hillsborough County School District this year who registered perfect attendance for the second semester of their senior years.
School officials said that made them eligible for a chance to select one of 10 keys from a fishbowl, with the hopes of taking home a car.
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Only one key fit in the ignition of the 2012 Scion XD and that key was in the hands of 17-year-old McPhee, who has plans to study biology at Florida Gulf Coast University in the fall, according to school officials.
McPhee's was the seventh name to be called out by Hillsborough County School Board member Candy Olson. At the time she reportedly was seated among hundreds of eligible graduates and parents, who filled a set of bleachers on the Toyota of Tampa Bay car lot on Fletcher Avenue.
School officials said the event is "an incentive for students to faithfully attend school."
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