Two Pima Butte students raise $1,428 by selling cookie dough

Cookie Monster would be proud of two students at Pima Butte Elementary School who sold a total of $1,428 worth of cookie dough in a recent fundraiser sponsored by the Pima Butte PTO.

Tyla Miller, a third grader in Jamie Hale’s class, sold 52 boxes of the Pleasantville Farms pre-portioned frozen cookie dough. Tyla said, when asked where she sold all those boxes, “To my family and friends, and I went up and down the street in my neighborhood.”

Tyla Miller, a third grader, sold 52 boxes of cookie dough. She had the highest number of sales of any student at Pima Butte Elementary School.

Kindergarten student Michael Gloria, Jr., had the second highest number of cookie dough sales–50 boxes.

A kindergarten student, Michael Gloria, Jr., sold 50 boxes. Michael is a student in Sarah Graham’s class; that class led the K-2 group in sales with 131 boxes.

Rebecca Mott’s students, with 155 boxes, had the highest total sales at the school and in grades 3-5.

Both Tyla and Michael received a $25 gift card to Target from the PTO. One of Michael’s kindergarten classmates exclaimed, “And it’s not even Christmas yet!”

PTO Treasurer Ellen Hauck presents Tyla Miller with her Target gift card for being the top cookie dough sales person during Pima Butte’s fundraiser.

Melody Hunzaker, president of the Pima Butte PTO, presents Michael Gloria, Jr. a gift card for his cookie dough sales.

Tyla and Michael will each receive about 20 prizes from the cookie dough company’s awards program. Their prizes include such items as: glow in the dark slime, a pump rocket, a money pencil, a light up fan, light up glass and light up pen. The big prizes were a light up drink dispenser, soda drinking hat, ultimate audio air chair and a neon CD holder.

“I can’t wait for my water dispenser,” explained Tyla, demonstrating its size with her hands. “It just sits on your table. No more getting up at night and getting a glass of water.” Tyla’s fourth grade brother hoped to win the audio air chair, but she took most of the sales, so, she said, “I told him we’d share the chair.”

Asked what prize he wanted the most, Michael replied, “All of them.”

Cookie dough sales brought in a total of $19,532, and Pima Butte Elementary’s profit was $9,766. “Those monies will be used to purchase a die cut machine and supplies to enable teachers to create quality, enduring, custom learning aids,” according to Darlene Gaudette, PTO reporter. “Additionally, funds will help purchase greatly needed picnic tables for the children,” she said.

PTO-sponsored events and projects have raised a total of $30,462.56 this year to enrich the educational experience for students at Pima Butte Elementary School.