Madison is known for new traditions, one of our greatest traditions happened back in 2014 Haley Azbill had a idea that would impact many lives. She created Project Unify. Project Unify is a foundation of diversity, where different individuals valuing each other regardless of skin, intellect, talents, or years. This helped provide a great way for teachers to get involved with the students, parents to engage, and the student body to join together and become more of a whole while showing support for their peers, impacting them greatly.
In 2016 Jessica McPeek took over senior Haley Azbill position after Haley graduated. In 2017 Haley's younger sister Brittany organized another basketball game in which Fox 8 News attended for the second time since the start of the school’s participation. This years 2018 project unify leaders with be Rachel Collins and Emma Burkholder. Rachel Collins have been interested in getting the position since freshman year, she’s always wanted to be apart because she says that she love working with the students involved with this event. “This experience is so special to me,” says Collins.
Since the beginning of project unify the student body has helps supports the event, purchasing t-shirts and admission tickets. In the past years the girls have set up a spaghetti dinner to as a fundraiser for this special event, each ticket has been $10 and all donations went towards the Project Unify game. Rachel and Emma came up with a new idea this year, they set up a fashion show, girls from past years donated their dresses, and the models walked down the runway will girls bid on the dresses. They sold a total 22 dresses to the MHS girls. All bids on the dresses were put too this year's Project Unify.
This year the students will all wear yellow, for autism awareness. Rachel said they decided on yellow this year because it's a bright and very happy color. As they have not picked the day yet, they asked that some time in February for the basketball game to come out and watch our students during their time to shine.
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