WALK-A-THON | Welcome

Friday March 28, 2025

Help us with our biggest fundraiser of the year!

Please click here to donate directly via PayPal!

We're incredibly proud that the Nimitz PTA can sponsor our art program for all Nimitz students. Additionally, the PTA funds technology, our multicultural festival, assemblies, library books, and teacher & classroom supplies. Nimitz PTA wants to make sure we can continue to offer these programs, in addition to fun social and family events for our community.

Walk-A-Thon Goals:

Raise $25,000

Walk/run a combined total of 3,500 laps

Participation Prize Opportunities

Each class will have a 30-min walk/run time-slot during the school day
- After each class's walk-a-thon slot, Nimitz PTA is providing all students with an Otter Pop to show that they are out of this world!
Students can also choose to walk/run during their lunch time
Students can earn lanyard beads for each lap and a special bead for every 5 laps they walk/run!
If we hit the school goal of 3,500 laps, the whole school will get a dance party!

Fundraising Prize Opportunities

For every $20 raised, your name is entered into a raffle drawing. Available raffle prizes include:
- A family scavenger hunt from Let's Roam San Jose
- A family pass to the Bay Area Discovery Museum
- A 3-month family season pass to Curiodyssey
- General Admission to the Tech Interactive
- Admission to the Lawrence Hall of Science
- Mansion Tour at the Winchester Mystery House
- Family Boarding Pass to the USS Hornet Museum
- Passes to Hiller Aviation Museum
- Passes to a San Jose Giants game
- A player autographed puck from the San Jose Sharks
- Admission to Calibunga Waterpark
- Admission to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom
- Tickets to a Cal Women's basketball game
- Admission to the San Francisco Zoo
- A gift certificate to Big Al's
- A gift certificate to Top Golf
- Admission to Happy Hollow Park & Zoo
- Tickets to a San Jose Earthquakes home match
- Admission to California's Great America
- Gift certificate to Chuck E Cheese (donation from a Nimitz Family)
- STEAM activity kit (donation from a Nimitz Family)

We thank all of the companies and families that have donated these wonderful raffle prizes to help us reach our Walk-a-thon goal!

Remember that for every $20 you raise, you will get an additional entry into the raffle for all of these wonderful prizes.
The child in each grade who raises the most money will get to silly string Mrs. Pakel at the dance party!

The Walk-A-Thon Carnival is back!

Our Walk-a-Thon will continue after school, too! Families are invited to join us at Nimitz from 2:45pm - 6pm for:

Walking/Running Laps
Concession Sales
Carnival Games (from 4pm - 6pm)
Play Walk-A-Thon Bingo at the Carnival to enter a raffle drawing of In-N-Out gift cards

Thank you for your donation!

We have lots of fun in store for the kids and we are hoping to raise the necessary funds to keep our amazing art and music programs, as well as funding all of the other wonderful academic and social opportunities here at Nimitz!

Please click here to donate directly via PayPal!

Volunteers Needed!

If you are interested in volunteering to help during the Walk-a-thon, we have spots available both during and after school.
You can help with their lap beads, punch souvenir lap cards, count laps, or help sell concessions.
Any parents volunteering during the school day will need full volunteer clearance.

Adult Volunteers for Walk-a-thon

We could also use high school volunteers, especially to help us run our carnival. If you know of any students looking for volunteer hours, please have them sign up to help.

High School Volunteers Needed!