The Blood Drive is an event that occurs at Timber Creek throughout the school year. In order to participate students must be at least the age of sixteen. The big red buses are at school from 7:00 am until 2:30 pm are can be found outside of the gym, in effort to save millions of lives. The blood that the students donate goes to local hospitals in, Central Florida locations. That means that with the help of the student’s time and blood it is able to benefit the community.
During both A/B lunches people walk around campus and ask if students would like to donate blood. But, upon donation must have certain requirements. Students can sign up by writing their name, first period teacher, and age to sign up. Once the permission slip is taken care of there are still a couple more things to do before students can give blood. When students get to their scheduled appointment they must take their blood pressure and temperature. Then, students will make their way to the bus.
Once students get to the bus, they will fill out a survey with general questions about their health and habits, just to double check students could donate. Once all of that is done, the employees will find a vein to stick the needle in, once they do that, they will start to take blood. After, giving blood the students should feel excited about what they have done because their blood could save multiple people’s lives. Students will also be provided with will all sorts of food, beverages and snacks after donation.
