Tampa 4th-Grader Always Willing To Help Others: FL Star Student

TAMPA, FL — Star Students are found in classrooms, on concert and theater stages and at debate lecterns, and out in the community doing good things to make life better for all of us.

Here at Patch, we've launched an initiative to help recognize Star Students, and we’re working to tell the stories of these outstanding kids to their neighbors.

This submission comes from Eleanore Schenck who nominated her grandson, Alexander, a fourth-grader in Tampa.

"My grandson, Alexander, is constantly doing local service projects to help people in the community and in his school," Schenck said. "Just recently, he held a bake sale to collect money for kids in school that couldn't afford field trips."

He, with help from his sister, Penelope, who's in the third grade, baked everything themselves and raised $400, which was donated to the school's field trip fund.

"He is a helper and a giving child," Schenck said. "He looks for ways to help others around him all the time and takes initiative to achieve these goals. He is an inspiration to me and I couldn't be more proud of him and his sister.

She envisions him going on to do great things to help others.

"He has love in his heart and began helping people as early on as an infant. He is and will be a star in the community as someone who will always be there to help anyone in need," she said.

Congratulations on your achievements, and all of our best wishes to you in the future, Alexander!

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