Watch VideoStudents Compelled to Make a Change After Shootings
Story By: David Tauchen
Source: KOAA
When Max Fruge heard the news of the weekend's church shootings that left 4 people dead and 5 injured, he took it as a call to action.
"It really made me think about just doing something that would influence a lot of people," said Fruge, a junior at Woodland Park High School.
With the help of his friends, they're making dozens upon dozens of bracelets and passing them out to strangers. The only thing they ask is every time someone with a bracelet sees someone else with a bracelet, they give them a hug and commit a random act of kindness.
"It's been great because it really has had such a positive influence on people we've never seen in our lives," said Fruge.
Fruge and his friends say the idea is beginning to catch on at Woodland Park High School. "I've been doing it for two days and already people who I've never met are just avid about getting ahold of these bracelets," said Fruge. "[They're] committed to them and being nice to other people."
"People just started coming up and asking for them, people that we've never seen before," said junior Taylor Sprague.
The project stemmed from an assignment for Lynette Gustafson's psychology class. "He's trying to help make this world a better place than what it was when he came in to it," said Gustafson. "[That's] what I try to challenge my kids to do."
Fruge and his friends hope the idea will spread beyond the walls of Woodland Park High School. They hope to take it state-wide.
