📷 FINAL HOURS FOR EARLY BIRD TICKETS! 📷 Today is your last chance to save on Cooking for a Cause 2026. 📷 Get your tickets before the clock runs out: bit.ly/Cooking26 Join us November 7 at Kansas Star Arena for one of Wichita’s biggest nights of food, fun, and fundraising, all in support of student success. 📷 Taste your way through dishes from incredible local chefs 📷 Cheer them on as they compete for Top Chef honors 📷 Enjoy a high-energy night out with friends 📷 Help create more opportunities for students across our community Early Bird pricing ends TONIGHT: Individual Tickets: $125 Reserved Tables: $1,500 After tonight, prices go up. If Cooking is on your calendar this year, this is the time to grab your seats. #CookingForACause #StudentSuccess #ThePandoWay

🚨 50 CHEFS IN 50 DAYS starts NOW! 👨‍🍳🔥 The countdown is officially on to fill the aisles for Pando’s Grocery Games, and we already have a head start: ✅ 5 Chefs signed up 🛒 45 spots to go 📅 50 days to get there Our goal: 50 Chefs by September 29! And September 29 isn’t just the deadline. That’s also when we’ll bring our Chefs together for the official Chef Kick-Off Party, sponsored by @kansas_star, our Chef Champion Sponsor! 🎉 We’re looking for restaurants, businesses, home cooks, past Chefs, first-time Chefs, teams of friends, and anyone ready to serve up something great for Cooking for a Cause 2026. You bring the food. You bring the fun. Together, we raise money to support Pando programs and help more students succeed. Think you’ve got what it takes to compete for Top Chef honors? 👨‍🍳 Claim your spot before September 29: bit.ly/pandochefs26 5 down. 45 to go. Let’s fill the aisles. 🛒🔥 #50ChefsIn50Days #CookingForACause #PandosGroceryGames #StudentSuccess #ThePandoWay

Chef Recruitment for Cooking for a Cause starts now! Bring the heat for student success. Sign up at bit.ly/pandochefs26 #CookingForACause #StudentSuccess #ThePandoWay

🎉 SURPRISE! More Pando schools are opening! We are expanding for the 2026–27 school year, which means more opportunities to join the Pando team. 💚 A few perks of working at Pando: 🕒 School-hour schedule 🏖️ Paid winter break, spring break, and school holidays 🌟 12 additional PTO days each year 🏥 Monthly health coverage stipend ✨ And more! Come grow with us and help create student success, The Pando Way! View openings and submit your resume at: thepandoinitiative.org/caree… #ThePandoWay #NowHiring #StudentSuccess

Did you know? During the 2025–26 school year, 4,140+ Pando volunteers gave 15,400+ hours to support students, schools, and our community. Every hour matters. Every volunteer matters. Every connection matters. That’s The Pando Way in action. PandoKids + Pando NextGen: 140 volunteers | 3,000 hours Reality U: 4,000+ volunteers | 12,400+ hours Have you volunteered with Pando before? Drop a 📷 in the comments, share your favorite Pando volunteer moment, or tag someone who should join us for the 2026–27 school year. #StudentSuccess #ThePandoWay #VolunteerWithPando #PandoKids #PandoNextGen #RealityU

As we continue celebrating the incredible moments from this year’s STAR Awards, we want to recognize one of the special honors presented during the event: the Guiding STAR Mentor Award. This year’s award was presented to @EastHeightsUMC for their incredible commitment to students at Jefferson Elementary. For more than a decade, volunteers from East Heights have continued to show up with consistency, care, and heart. They help make sure students have food through the weekend, create space for connection through a 5th grade craft group, and offer the kind of steady presence that makes a lasting impact. Their partnership is a powerful example of what it means to walk alongside students and help create the strong connections they need to succeed in school, at home, and in life. Congratulations to East Heights United Methodist Church, our 2026 Guiding STAR Mentor Award recipient! #STARAwards #GuidingSTAR #ThePandoWay #StudentSuccess

Attendance pays off. 💚 Pando students at @WichitaUSD259 @LawrenceUSD259 earned “Pando Dollars” all year for reaching attendance goals, then spent them at the Pando Attendance Shop during the last week of school. Thank you to @unitedwayplains GIV Warehouse, Faith Community Church and our volunteers! #AttendanceMatters #StudentSuccess #ThePandoWay

92 Pando NextGen Seniors. 4 high schools. Years of hard work, growth, and determination. We’re celebrating the graduating seniors of @WichitaNorth259, @wichitawesthigh, @WichitaSEHS, and @DHS_Panthers as they officially close one chapter and step into the next. Our Pando NextGen team has had the privilege of walking alongside these students through class planning, college and career preparation, scholarship applications, big decisions, tough moments, exciting wins, and everything in between. To our seniors: we are incredibly proud of you and honored to have been part of your journey. Your story is just getting started, and we cannot wait to see where life takes you next. 💚 Congratulations, Class of 2026! #PandoNextGen #StudentSuccess #ThePandoWay

⭐ To round out our 2026 STAR Student celebrations, it’s time to recognize our @WichitaUSD259 High School STAR Students! 💚⭐ This year, we’ve had the honor of celebrating 60 incredible STAR Students from 30 Pando schools. Each one has inspired us through their leadership, perseverance, kindness, growth, and the positive impact they make in their schools and communities every single day. Through Pando NextGen, these students are preparing for life after high school, building confidence, and creating bright futures for themselves and those around them. 🏫 @WichitaNorth259 Sponsored by @US_Logo STAR Students: Ayeleen & Scarlett 🏫 @WichitaSEHS Sponsored by Phil & Judy Frick STAR Students: Naryiah & Kei’Arie 🏫 @wichitawesthigh Sponsored by @ReeceNicholssck STAR Students: Brianna & Abraham #STARawards #StudentSuccess #ThePandoWay

⭐ Next up… the Wichita Public Schools Middle School STAR Students! 💚⭐ These students are showing what it means to lead by example through resilience, kindness, determination, leadership, and the positive impact they make in their schools every day. ⬇️ Check out the Wichita Middle School STARs! #STARawards #StudentSuccess #ThePandoWay