Student wins PlayStation Vita during challenge

High schooler Darian Sales [right], pictured next to counselor Tamara Day, displays her PlayStation Vita.

High schooler Darian Sales [right], pictured next to counselor Tamara Day, displays her PlayStation Vita.

Poplar Bluff High School senior Darian Sales won a PlayStation Vita on Thursday, Oct. 30, for being named Ambassador of the Week in the national Graduate for Mas program, sponsored by the Taco Bell Foundation for Teens.

Sales won the challenge by encouraging classmates to take the online pledge to graduate and also by participating in online activities that are college and career based, according to PBHS guidance counselor Tamara Day.

As of the end of last week, Poplar Bluff Schools was No. 2 out of 1,200 schools in the United States—just below a district out of Huntington Beach, Calif.—for having had over 30 percent of high school students sign the pledge.