Special Olympics North America has announced that 14 Indiana schools will receive national banner recognition for their efforts to engage students with and without intellectual disabilities in inclusive activities during the 2018-2019 school year.
At a special presentation yesterday, Casey’s General Stores leaders presented a check to Special Olympics Indiana in the amount of $139,436, representing the total raised by all Indiana Casey’s stores during a June “Round-up at the Register” fundraiser.
Accept the Challenge today and sign up your team of up to 20 for the 2019 Plane Pull Challenge, to be held Saturday, Aug. 3 at the Indianapolis International Airport.
Celebrating the Joy of Inclusion and 50 years of changing lives through the transformative power of sports, Special Olympics Indiana’s 50th Anniversary Summer Games will be held June 7-9 at Indiana State University and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
Champion level funding will help to cover costs associated with Special Olympics Indiana’s planned 50th anniversary activities and initiatives at the 2019 Indiana Summer Games.
Special Olympics’ work in schools, which would be impacted by recently proposed budget cuts, has been statistically proven to increase inclusion & improve whole school communities for millions of young people with & without intellectual disabilities.