Hacker students break record during metal drive

Students from Shelly Rose's fourth hour team building class at Hacker Middle School pose with Grimace, the McDonald's mascot, following a ceremony April 28 at the school. Students with the team building classes organized a two-month effort to collect more than 3,000 pounds of scrap metal, including more than 930 pounds in aluminum cans. Money raised from this scrap metal went to the Ronald McDonald House in Boise. Photo by Brian S. Orban

Students from Hacker Middle School broke two goals, then shattered a previous year's record, during a scrap metal drive that ended Friday.

Organized by the school's team building classes, the project took in an assortment of recyclable material, including iron, tin, metal pipes and aluminum cans.

Students set an initial goal of 500 pounds and quickly broke that make, said Principal Nikki Cruser as she spoke to students at a ceremony April 28 in the school gymnasium. They set a second goal of 900 pounds and easily surpassed that one before breaking last year's 1,805-pound tally.

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