My name is Grace Zander, and for the most part, I am a healthy, young, average teenage girl. I do not have anyone related to me with cancer, and personally, I was not close with Ethan Toohey or Robert Nagg. However, I am a student of the school they were in, and saw the way they touched this whole town before and after their passing. Even though I did not know them, I still want to honor them, because they deserve it. I want to be a pediatric gastroenterologist when I grow up. Specific, I know. I grew up in and out of hospitals for gastrointestinal issues and have a passion for science and helping others. I am currently applying to hospital volunteer programs not only for my high school community service project, but for my own passion for medicine and connecting with people. I have never had the chance to be apart of something like this, and while it is cruel that this disease takes the lives of so many brilliant children every day, I feel honored to be given the health, voice, and opportunity to raise and honor kids like Robert Nagg and Ethan Toohey who deserve it more than anyone. I walk in to this event humbly. This is not for me. While I feel I will learn a lot about myself through shaving my head for cancer research, I ask those I know for money and shave my head not for me or my pride, but for those who I am honoring. I am so unbelievably excited to be participating in something that makes such a difference to so many lives. I take the backlash I will receive from peers in stride, because this is not about looks, or hair, this is about not only honoring those who passed, but those who still are fighting. I ask for your donations to help me raise as much money as I can and to help make March 12th an amazingly successful day of reaching our $50k goal!! :)