SPEEDWAY, Ind. -- A group of Speedway students are using a little paint, manhole covers and t-shirts to help pay for a dream trip to Japan.
This fall, 16 eighth graders and freshmen will travel more than 6,000 miles to their town's sister city Motegi, Japan.
For the past decade, students from Speedway and Motegi have visited their sister cities in alternating years. Both communities have a race track and they're about the same size.
The round trip will cost about $46,000 for the group.
So far, students have raised nearly half of what they need and they're fundraising to try to help cover the rest of the cost.
The students borrowed a manhole cover from the Speedway Street Department and they're using that along with some white t-shirts to create a unique Speedway-specific design.
Like many things in Speedway, these t-shirts have a racing design. The manholes say Speedway and the design looks like tire tracks.
The shirts cost $20 each and for an extra $5 the students will make and donate a special "Thin Red Line" or "Thin Blue Line" shirt to the Speedway Police and Fire Departments.
The shirts can be purchased on Main Street in Speedway at two locations: Three Sisters and a Trunk or the Speedway Centre for the Arts.
Students will also be selling them at the town's concerts in the park every Thursday evening this summer.
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