ROSSFORD, Ohio (WUPW) - A special wish was granted Wednesday morning for a Penta student. 

Students in the DECA Marketing program have spent the last 3 months holding fundraisers for Make-A-Wish to raise money for their fellow classmate Zac Zies who wants to go to Australia.  Zac suffers from an illness called Friedrich's Ataxia.  Today the students presented a check for $7,752 to help make Zac's dream come true, although Zac could not attend Wednesday's event because he was ill.

"Each year the DECA Penta gets a community service project that we have to work on, this year we picked to work with Make-A-Wish Foundation and we found out one of the kid's that was on the wish list was here at Penta Career Center so we thought what a great opportunity to help someone that went to our school and that we could all relate to he's our friend," said Noelle Vargas, a senior in Penta's Marketing Education Program.

Make-A-Wish is helping plan the trip for Zac this summer.

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