Students at Myers-Wilkins Elementary School showed off T-shirts with the school's new logo on the last day of school in June. The T-shirts were made available to students thanks to a Leadership Duluth service project and generous donors.
Through an online campaign, members of Leadership Duluth's Class of 2017 raised money to commission a painting of the school's new wolf logo in the entrance of the school, and to purchase logo T-shirts for each student. The group chose to partner with Myers-Wilkins to help ignite students' sense of school spirit.
Myers-Wilkins Elementary School serves a particularly low income segment of the community where the free or reduced lunch rate-an indicator of low/moderate family income-is 80 percent. Many homeless families reside in shelters in or near the Hillside and their children attend Myers-Wilkins.
After meeting with Myers-Wilkins principal Elisa Maldonado, Leadership Duluth identified a need for students to have a greater sense of pride and attachment to their school, and to the school mascot. The team then reached out to local artist Mike Smisek of SEK Design to create a brand new logo for the Myers-Wilkins Wolves.
