The Star Donation Challenge Has Ended
This annual challenge gives your students an engaging opportunity to help communities while they read books and complete fun activities in the Student Portal. Students who participate:
- Read 3x as many books
- Complete 4x as many activities
- Achieve reading gains faster
- Make a life-changing impact on communities around the world and model good citizenship
Encourage students to save their stars so they can participate in next year’s challenge.
How It Works
Students earn stars by reading books and completing activities in the Kids A-Z student portal.
Students donate their stars toward healthy meals, clean water, or school supplies to help communities in need.
After stars are donated, Learning A-Z makes a monetary donation of up to $20,000 on behalf of participating students to support a children’s humanitarian organization with worldwide impact.
Learn, earn stars, and donate. It’s that simple.
The top-donating classroom in each of the 50 U.S. states and D.C., as well as five different countries, will win a class pizza party. Check out the resources in our teacher kits!
Star Challenge Goals
We’re challenging students to donate one billion stars to unlock up to $20,000 in donations from Learning A-Z® to a children’s humanitarian organization.
Students decide how many donations are made to each category:
Healthy Meals
Donations provide nutritious food for children facing hunger.
Clean Water
Donations provide water tablets to ensure communities have access to clean water.
School Supplies
Donations give communities access to vital school supplies and building materials.
Get Students Motivated
Keep students motivated with our Learning A-Z Star Donation Challenge Kits.
Classroom Kit
Keep students motivated with collaborative goal setting, family letters, and donation tracking.
Administrator Kit
Access communication templates, resources to celebrate students’ accomplishments, and more.
All-Time Student Donations
Students have donated over 11 billion stars to help communities in need since the start of the Learning A-Z Star Donation Challenge in 2020.
10.9 Billion
Stars Donated
Since 2020
2.1 Billion
Total Student Donations Since 2020
926,000
Healthy Meals Donated Since 2020
6.5 Million
Days of Drinking Water Donated Since 2021
455,000
School Supplies Donations Since 2023
FAQs
What does it cost to participate?
How long does the challenge run?
How much do students need to read to donate?
Students who earn 4,000 stars can donate a healthy snack, 10 days of clean water, or community school supplies.
Students who earn 11,000 stars can make a MEGA donation of a healthy meal, 30 days of clean water, or materials to help build a school.
Students read books and complete various learning activities to earn stars to donate.To earn enough stars to make a donation, students can listen to a book (10 stars), read a book (50 stars), pass a quiz (100 stars), complete a vocabulary game (100 stars), and more in their Kids A-Z portal. Check out other ways students can earn stars.
How do the donations work?
Students have the option to donate toward three causes: healthy meals, clean water, and school supplies.
After students donate the stars they’ve earned, Learning A-Z makes a monetary donation of up to $20,000 to a worldwide children’s humanitarian organization.*
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What’s the prize for the classrooms that donate the most stars?
The top-donating classroom in each 50 U.S. states and D.C., as well as in five different countries, will win a class pizza party. The teacher of the winning classroom will receive a digital gift card to use towards their pizza party.
How will I know if my class has won?
Learning A-Z will contact winners through the email address associated with their account within 30 days after the challenge has ended.
We will also celebrate the winning classrooms by devoting a blog post to their accomplishments and will publish the name of the classroom teacher, as well as the classroom's school and district. Student information will NOT be shared.
Where do I go if I need help getting started with my Learning A-Z product?
Register for a free demo hosted by our Professional Learning Services team. Or, follow the step-by-step walkthroughs available within the Guided Help feature in your account.
If you’d like to connect with Customer Support, start a chat by opening the blue icon at the bottom of any Learning A-Z page.
*The following Learning A-Z products include Kids A-Z: Raz-Plus, Raz-Plus ELL, Raz-Plus Español, Raz-Kids, Foundations A-Z, Vocabulary A-Z, Writing A-Z, and Science A-Z.