Bluffton elementary students generated over $3,000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society as a Christmas project this month.

The grand total collected was $3,172.44.

According to Christine McCafferty, reading intervention tutor, elementary students collected change for three weeks in November and December.

The project was titled “Pennies for Patients."

Money was collected by grade level. The winning grade, in this case Kindergarteners, won a pizza party.

Here are amounts collected by each grade level.
Kindergarten- $995.38
1st Grade- $471.46
2nd Grade- $670.73
3rd Grade- $489.56
4th Grade- $354.51
5th Grade- $190.80

McCafferty said that at the conclusion of the project students took coins to First National Bank to run through the coin counter.