A group of Catasauqua High School students has taken on a project to raise awareness and focus on childhood cancer.

CHS students and members of the school student forum, Britni Elekes, Alexis Bernard and Rose Dietrich, have partnered with the Angel 34 Foundation to pursue the endeavor.

Angel 34 is led by Executive Director Doug Sheriff, who created the foundation after his daughter, Nicole, a Northampton Area High School athlete, died in 2004 from Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer. The foundation aims to help battle cancer.

The project is made possible through a grant the student forum applied for through the Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit 21 that permits the group to put together a student-led project.

Dawn Fisher, adviser for the student group and Catasauqua Area School District gifted education teacher, said the student group met early in the year to put together an event.

“The students decided they wanted to plan something significant,” she said. “Many of our students had previous experience with Angel 34 and wanted to partner with them.”

The CHS group, according to Fisher, has a number of initiatives currently in the works. She said the students have already produced a public service announcement video.

Also, Fisher said, the forum group is selling paper angels to raise money, and, in the spring, the group will be holding an Olympics-styled fundraiser event.

“The students are planning all of this with support from Diahann Snisky at Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit 21, Doug Sheriff from Angel 34 and the advisers,” Fisher said.