Signed up 60 businesses to put meters in shops and restaurants
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- During a press conference Monday, members of Doherty High School's DECA program announced the launch of Miracle Meters.
DECA is an association of marketing students.
Originally started by former council member Jerry Heimlicher, the meters are a way for people in the community to help the homeless.
"The purpose is you can place them in a business or store, and with your loose change after you purchase an item or have some in your pocket you just slip it in the meter, and at the end of the year after they have all been filled up hopefully we will have a lot of money," DECA member Marcus Anderson said.
Doherty DECA took on the project last year. A marketing-based club, the students went out and spoke with business owners about Miracle Meters. Their goa: get as many to sign on as possible.
"We came downtown and just hit business to business telling them about what Miracle Meters was," DECA president Alex Wendt said.
In total, the students spent more than 600 hours on the project and were able to sign up around 60 businesses. They said the experience was priceless.
"It fit into our curriculum. We are a marketing class so business skills, talking to business owners and things like that really help us for our role play and state competitions which will then help us in life and the future," Anderson said.
The students said it was nice to know they were doing a community service project.
In the future they plan on soliciting more businesses to come on board and place a meter in their shops or restaurants.
The meters were painted by the Smokebrush Gallery and Palmer and Tesla high schools.
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