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Students' Fight against Hunger Brings Hope to Hungry Families

While students from St. Andrew's Episcopal School and St. Stephen's Episcopal School (photo left) may be competitive rivals, especially on the football field, when it comes to fighting hunger, the two are united. Giving life to an ongoing tradition, students from both schools have turned their competitive energies for five consecutive years into the Harvest Bowl, a yearly food drive which serves as the sustaining resource for El Buen's food pantry. This year, St. Andrew's Episcopal School and St. Stephen's Episcopal School raised more than 15 tons of food. 

The schools' Harvest Bowl, a student-run community service project which was conceived and initiated by St. Andrew's student Sara Taube in 2004 to take place during the schools' football season, has blossomed into an effort which supplies El Buen's food pantry with nine months' worth of food each year. 

"It is extremely gratifying to see students take the spirit of competition beyond the playing field to serve the greater Austin community and particularly the good works of El Buen Samaritano," said St. Andrew's Upper School Head Rich Mischinski. 

St. Andrew's was awarded the coveted Harvest Bowl traveling trophy for the fifth consecutive year in a halftime ceremony during the St. Andrew's-St. Stephen's football game at St. Stephen's Episcopal School on Friday, October 31.