A Teens in the Driver Seat Campaign at Wake Forest High School, part of a national effort to promote safe driving, has the Wake Forest Key Club in first place in the country to win $1,500 for the school to use to improve safe driving.
Lily Olmo, the Key Club president, said she founded the local effort. “I have about 15 committee members who have helped me with our success. The Fall Focus Campaign for this year was seatbelt safety. This was a nine-week program that we decided to take on.
“We did a pre-survey and saw that only 85 percent of our students were wearing seatbelts when in the car. Then, we completed three weeks of campaigns, which included pledging stations, Red Ribbon Week, and hanging up hundreds of posters and flyers. After these three weeks, we completed out survey again and now 97 percent of students are wearing their seatbelt. We are now first in the country to win $1,500 dollars for our school to use toward safe driving improvements.”
