Leap For Kids

"Thousands of people flocked to Ocean Beach Saturday to participate in the annual Sand Castle Competition sponsored by Leap, a nonprofit organization committed to providing elementary school kids with access to the arts. Twenty-four teams — composed of architects, engineers, contractors and students at elementary schools — had four hours, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., to compete to build the most impressive sand castle. This year’s theme was “Sand Francisco,” and castles depicted iconic San Francisco landmarks such as AT&T Park, the Golden Gate Bridge and the Transamerica building."

Along side helping schools each year with McCarthy Heart Hat, McCarthy also deals with a fundraiser group called Leap For Kids. This fundraiser each year is a giant sand castle contest, where construction companies from all over the bay area team up with an elementary school and build a giant sand castle. each year there is a specific theme, the last contest's theme was "San Francisco". The schools know about the themes ahead of time and plan out what to build at school using clay models. eventually all of the ideas get narrowed down to one and that one is used as the basis for the castle that they will build. Our project this year was to construct the wharf/pier. Eventually that clay model came to life as a large sand castle. Our castle had the pier with  a crab and sea lion on top of it, and anchor hanging off of the side, and a sea lion on the side sticking its head out of the water. All throughout this event there is a large raffle going on. My sister won the lowest prize of sees' candies and i won two tickets to Great America. it's such a fun event! And even though we didn't come in first the kids still enjoyed themselves on the beach.