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A Texas High School Receives $10K From McDonald’s

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The #LovinSchoolSpiritContest‘s website read, “The McDonald’s Owners in the Austin area will donate $10,000 to the participating high school that receives the most tweeted hashtags from September 1, 2016 at 8 a.m. to November 13, 2016 at 11:59 p.m.” Over 40 high schools were in the running for $10,000, and Austin’s Akins High School took the prize home for being social media savvy.

Austin area McDonald’s locations are privately owned so they aimed to give back to their own community with the monetary gift. “We feel like education is very important to us. That’s why we have programs like scholarship programs, and English under the arches- where they teach English as a second language, and we also have high school diplomas to support education in the Austin-area and the us,” McDonald’s owner E. W. Ross told KXAN.

Akins High School is thrilled to have won the school spirit award, and students are certainly feeling the love. “Choose to live a life filled with gratitude. I PROMISE you’ll never regret it P.S. I’m grateful for y’all ,” Twitter user Susie Gielow wrote.

According to their Facebook page, Akins was founded in 2016 and has over 2,500 students, and their website states that the school “is ranked as one of the nation’s best high schools, according to U.S. News and World Report, and has been named by Austin Monthly as one of the top 40 high schools in Central Texas.”