Every year, the FAST for a Better Tomorrow is sponsored by the Junior Class as a service activity for students in grades nine through 12.

Participants are asked to donate canned goods and 10 dollars for the purchase of toiletries, which are bagged and given to Waikiki Youth Outreach(YO), an organization helping teens on the streets.

This year’s theme is “Be the Spark that Lights Up the World.” More than 20 juniors serve as volunteer leaders under the guidance of Sr. Katherine Francis Miller and Sr. Irene Barboza. Juniors Kaysey Siobal and Katherine Hennion are the overall coordinators.

Siobal said, “We have been preparing for FAST for a few weeks, almost a month, now. Our theme is individuality as reflected in our title, “Be the Spark that Lights Up the World.” We are emphasizing gaining or strengthening the confidence that every individual needs in order to fully understand how she is as a person. Individuality exists hand in hand with confidence and functions with the other. Through our theme we are focusing on finding ourselves and how we can help others do the same. To be confident in one’s individuality means everyone contributes their unique traits and is the ‘spark’ that lights up the world altogether.”

The FAST will be held in the auditorium from 3:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 23.