Northern Lehigh Middle School students and staff didn’t just meet their goal of raising a certain number of hygiene products to donate to those in need.

They obliterated it.

When the Hearts for the Homeless Hygiene Product Drive in partnership with Caring DAM Hearts in Walnutport, concluded one student had the opportunity to “pie” the principal.

Before the results were revealed during one of the school’s INSPIRE days on Friday, middle school Principal Daniel Williams explained to students the significance of the drive.

Williams noted that they had talked about how people don’t know how much it means to have items such as a tube of toothpaste, or a stick of deodorant, until they don’t have access to it.

He said the school partners each year with Caring Hearts to solicit a drive for hygiene products to donate to those in need in our area.

“The purpose was for us to learn how important it is for us to give back to our community,” Williams said. “We’re donating these items to them so they can get them dispersed to those who need it.”

Denise Martinez, founder and CEO of Caring DAM Hearts, said the need is “definitely here in our area.”

Williams said that throughout the month of February, the school challenged its students to donate hygiene products that could be distributed.

He said the items that were donated included shampoos, soaps, shaving cream and disposable razors, hand sanitizers, cleaning wipes, feminine hygiene products, toothbrushes, toothpaste and other dental care items, deodorants, chapstick, lotions, Q-tips and shower items such as loofahs.

On Friday, the school culminated its drive as part of its Positive Behavior Intervention and Support Days that students earn each month.

Williams said the school’s goal was to have 500 total items donated, and if they reached that goal, one lucky middle school student would be afforded the chance of pieing him in the face on front of the student body.

It turns out the school collected 732 items, which meant a good old-fashioned pie in the face to Williams.

Eighth-grade student Devin Thomas was randomly selected via wheel that included student names and spun, making him the random student who was selected to pie Williams in the face.

Earlier, the school gave away four swag bags from the middle school store known as “The Pound” which included items such as fidgets, pencils, beanies, T-shirts and vouchers for school store merchandise.

Any student who donated an item throughout the drive had their name entered into a raffle, and had their name placed on the wheel and spun to pick random students to win the prize.

Students who received swag bags were Maureen Strohl, eighth grade, Riley Kauffman, eight grade, Kensley Rodney, eighth grade, and Isabella Oswald, seventh grade.