Student leaders from Frontier High School have secured a second-place finish in the annual Buffalo Bills Huddle For Hunger Drive, earning an exclusive team prize for their community efforts.

The school’s student government spent weeks mobilizing the community to gather non-perishable food donations, culminating in a massive delivery to Highmark Stadium. The annual Huddle For Hunger initiative challenges Western New York schools to collect goods to combat regional food insecurity.

By capturing second place, Frontier won a stadium watch party at Highmark Stadium for 50 students.

To secure their runner-up finish, students deployed a variety of creative collection strategies starting before the school year even began.

“We started off by going around neighborhoods and putting fliers up. Then we just collected cans from people who decided to put some out,” said Samantha Migas, a Frontier High School student organizer.

Migas added that the student government also ran a bottle-and-can drive to raise cash to buy more food, secured monetary donations from local businesses, and launched in-school incentives. The school hosted a first-period breakfast competition for the class with the most donations, alongside a $100 gift card raffle at the Frontier Volleyball Stadium Game.

While Frontier took home first place in the competition last year, participating students and staff emphasized that the true reward lies far beyond the scoreboard or the upcoming stadium watch party.

“Past the competition aspect, we also just want to incorporate every part of our community,” said student organizer Piper Darmstedter. “We just want to feed people who are less fortunate. We just want to give back to our community.”

Frontier High School Counselor Michelle Lake said the annual drive has become a cornerstone for building unity within the student body.

“We love being part of the Huddle For Hunger every year,” Lake said. “It gets the whole entire school community involved. And it really raises school morale and school spirit as everyone is being part of one thing to give back.”

Lake expressed immense pride in the students, noting that their dedication required sacrificing their own free time.

“Every year they really pull through,” Lake said. “I know everyone has put in so much work and spent a lot of time outside of school collecting donations and collecting canned goods. We spent part of our summer doing this, so I’m really impressed and really proud of them.”

Though the defending champions narrowly missed repeating as first-place winners, student organizers remained humble and focused on the broader impact of their work.

“We're hoping it looks good,” Migas said as the final counts were being tallied. “We definitely have a lot, but we never know what other schools have.”

Darmstedter agreed, noting that filling local pantry shelves is the ultimate goal.

“I feel like every year we are never too sure, and then we always end up surprising ourselves,” Darmstedter said. “Even without the competition, we’re still giving back. And that's a win for me.”

As the drop-off concluded, Lake summed up the collective spirit of the day with a nod to the home team: “Go Bills.”

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