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Students: Let the Mayhem Begin!
2015-2016 Pull Tab Mayhem
How It Works
The Pull Tab program raises valuable funds and awareness for Ronald McDonald House
Charities of the Rio Grande Valley. Money is raised through recycling the tabs. This
program helps pay for families and children to stay at the House while their child is
receiving medical treatment at the hospital. Your support helps ensure that these families will continue to have a
place to rest, relax, and recover together. Thank you!
 Save Pull Tabs! Have students, faculty and staff collect pull tabs throughout the school year. Pull tabs can
be found on soda, soup, vegetable, tuna, and pet food cans. You will be supplied with an educational packet
to integrate into lesson plans that teaches students about the benefits of recycling and giving back. The
contest will conclude on Friday, April 8, 2016.
 Share the Knowledge. Many schools have each classroom collect and store pull tabs. You can best
determine how to distribute materials and collect tabs. Past school winners have instituted contests within
their own school between grades for a school-related prize (extra recess, pizza party, etc.). To help get your
contest started, you will be provided with the following materials:
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Letter to teachers
Letter to parents
Pull Tab Mayhem education packet and lesson plan
 Register: In order to participate in the contest, you must complete a Pull Tab Contest Registration Form
and return to Clara Aguilar (email, fax and address information listed below) no later than September 11,
2015. The groups that register will then receive information and details about the pull tab drop off day,
location and time.
 Storage and Delivery: You or a school representative must deliver pull tabs to participating recycling
center, Ronald McDonald in Harlingen, or the Ronald McDonald Family Room no later than April 8, 2016.
 Celebrate! The winner will be determined by the group that has the most pounds of tabs per person. The
winner will receive:
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A school assembly with Ronald McDonald
Possession of the Pull Tab Traveling Trophy for one year
Questions?
Contact Clara Aguilar at [email protected] or call (956) 412-7200 for more information regarding Pull Tab
Mayhem.
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