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Students Get Nearly 200 Commitments from Houston Voters through Phone Banks

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Simultaneous phone banks after school on Monday at Davis, Sharpstown, Chavez, Scarborough and Furr plus one earlier on Friday at the Sam Houston Math, Science & Technology Center (MSTC) resulted in 187 commitments from Houston voters promising to hit the polls on Election Day.

More than 100 students participated in the phone banks in collaboration with Mi Familia Vota, a national nonprofit organization geared to promote civic engagement.

“This was an excellent opportunity for our kids to contribute toward a good cause, one that will benefit everyone,” said Sharpstown High School Principal Rob Gasparello. “It is always good to work with the great folks from Mi Familia Vota. The students really enjoyed volunteering for this event.”

The students volunteered a couple of hours after school to call eligible voters in their communities to encourage them to vote on Tuesday and remind them to finish the ballot.

“We had great results across the board from students, teachers and staff,” said Will Hernandez, deputized volunteer for Mi Familia Vota. “Thank you to HISD for allowing us to collaborate on this project!”

Mi Familia Vota provided the students at each campus headsets and a computer program to help facilitate the phone bank, along with the list of contact numbers for voters in their surrounding areas.

Students from Davis High School previously participated on another phone bank with Mi Familia Vota on October 19 to promote civic engagement and placed over a thousand phone calls.

At Sam Houston MSTC, parents and students made hundreds of phone calls to Houston voters on November 2.

This entry was posted in 2012 bond, High Schools, Uncategorized and tagged Chavez High School, civic engagement, davis high school, early voting, Election Day, Elections 2012, Furr High School, HISD, HISD bond, Houston ISD, Mi Familia Vota, Sam Houston High School, Sam Houston MSTC, Scarborough High School, Sharpstown High School, voting on November 6, 2012 by HISD Communications.

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