Pelahatchie High School Beta to Nationals 2024

PHS Beta needs your help to raise funds to attend the National Beta Convention in Savannah, GA. Students will have to pay for rental cars, gas, convention fees, and hotel fees. To be eligible to compete at the national level, we have to place in the top five in at least one competition at the State Beta Convention. Our Living Lit Betas have done just that for the past six years, with the last two years placing as Champions! Yet, never in these six years have we competed at Nationals because the costs have been too prohibitive. This year, our scene is the best we have ever created, and we firmly believe that we can place in the top five at the National Beta Convention, but we cannot compete without your financial help.

Living Lit competition is like a still shot from a novel, play, or poem--except students set the scene instead of wax figures. We take great care to build the set and pride ourselves in making much of the set and costumes instead of buying them. This year, we chose a scene from the novel The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien. So many Betas, teachers, students, and parents helped to create this set and costumes: it truly took a Tribe to bring home our Champion plaque.

We now ask that--in addition to our Tribe, who will help yet again with the myriad fundraisers going on at school--our entire community will come together to raise the necessary funds to get our Betas to Savannah, GA, so that they can finally compete at the national level. No donation is too small, and we thank you in advance for your generosity.