It’s Cash Sweepstakes Time! 

  

Our annual cash sweepstakes is back and will go live 9/24… this Thursday at 8am!!

 

Lucky winners of $500, $250, or $100! 

Tickets may be sold up until 3:00pm on Carnival Day 10/24/2026.

Drawing will be after the costume contest. You don’t need to be present to win!!  

 

Why do we raise this money every year? 

The PTK actively raises money to fund programs and activities including: • Grade level programs like dance, theater, fish-raising, NDI, and cooking.

 

• Teacher reimbursements - up to $700 per teacher each year 

• Club and team stipends - $250 for each club and team 

• Field trips and activities 

• and so much more! 

 

How students win too! 

Now for the really fun part we want to make sure that our students have plenty of chances to earn prizes too! 

 

The first way is to meet your minimum selling goal of $75 worth of sweepstake entrees! Every student who meets this goal will earn a mystery prize! 

 

The next is the Monster Dash, each class becomes a monster during the month of October, and they are racing each other to win a party! The top 2 selling classes in kindergarten-3rd and 4th-6th will get a party of their choosing (with teacher approval of course). The monster dash will be back up in the cafeteria so keep an eye on that during lunch so you can see how your class is doing! 

 

We have one more way to win a prize - the top 3 selling students in the whole school will earn cash prizes themselves! The top selling student will receive $100, the second-place student will receive $75, and the third top selling student will receive $50. 

 

Where is MY page? 



https://go.rallyup.com/carlosgilbertsweepstakes2026students

 

Use the search box to find your/your child's name and then you can send your direct link to all your family and friends! 

 

Psst Teachers - You can share your page also

 

**when checking out on the rally up website, if you don’t want to purchase bonus entries, please click on the “add custom bonus entries amount” and type in 0. **

 

What do I tell our family/friends? How do we invite them? 

An excellent question. 

Here is a sample email to copy and paste to send to family and friends.

 

"Hi (Name), 

 

I'm participating in a sweepstakes to raise money for Carlos Gilbert Elementary, and I would love your help! Every ticket counts! Please help our Blackhawks continue to soar! 

The PTK funds an enrichment program, such as theater, dance, or cooking, for each grade. The PTK also provides every teacher a reimbursement each semester for classroom materials, gives every club and team a yearly stipend, pays teachers to tutor students in need of extra assistance, facilitates school events, and supports other programs and activities as needed. If you purchase tickets you are helping to directly support and enrich the educational, creative, and social experience of students, teachers, and families in our school community. 

We appreciate you and wish you luck! 

Please visit my fundraising page to learn more about our cause and how to support our efforts: 

(copy and paste your fundraising page link here) 

I would also really appreciate it if you would spread the word among your friends by sharing my link above. 

Thanks again! 

(First Name)(Last Name)" 

 

Finally: if you want to sell tickets in person to neighbors, family, friends and co-workers this year we have a QR Code that you can take with you so they can easily scan it from their smartphone or tablet. There is also a link to a flyer if you want to print to take with you.

 

Below is a scannable QR code to access the sweepstakes page!!!