SYF students honor Sept. 11 anniversary with the sale of American flag pins

SYF students Lyndsay Konovalchik and 
James Grieves volunteered to sell American flag pins

Simon Youth Foundation students from the Simon Youth Peabody Learning Academy at the Northshore Mall outside of Boston, Mass., joined millions of Americans to remember the victims and heroes of 9/11 with the sale of flag pins at the mall's guest-services desk on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011, the 10-year anniversary of the U.S. terror attacks.

"We saw this opportunity as an important part of providing community service on behalf of Simon Youth Foundation and the Northshore Mall," says the academy's principal Seith Bedard. "Our students were proud to help people be able to express their patriotism and emotions regarding the 9/11 attacks."

The academy students and teachers chose to donate the proceeds of the flag pin sales to SYF in memory of the victims of 9/11. 

The flag pin sale proceeds will support SYF's major initiatives: Simon Youth Academies, which are alternative schools primarily located in 13 states that serve students who are at risk for dropping out of high school, and Simon Youth Scholarships, which target first-generation college students.