The jackpot for Wednesday’s Powerball drawing is now over $1.5 billion. Sam Wright went around the school and asked people what they would do if they won the jackpot:
Megan Morris: “I already promised my math class that I would pay for their college tuition through graduate school.”
Natalie Siegel: “I would buy a plane and travel the world.”
Leeann Graff: “I would pay for my college tuition.”
Lindsay Fink: “I would buy a llama.”
Kristin Barringhaus: “I would donate to charity after I paid for my college tuition.”
Dominick Gillette: “I’ll flip the cash and make more money. I would make my own brand too.”
Madeline Gamache: “I would go on a lifetime vacation.”
Maxwell Spitzmiller: “I’d drop out and own a professional sports team.”
Matthew Anderson: “I would go to college with my entire tuition paid for and move somewhere warm afterward.”
Ellisa Hanne: “I would take my family and friends to California and buy a mansion in Hollywood Hills.”
Morgan Stubblefield: “I would go on a shopping spree and then put the rest into savings.”
Candace Adams: “I would go move across the world and never come back.”
Jerica Taylor: “I would first finish school and then travel the world and learn about different countries.”
Megan Kendrick: “I would travel until all of my money ran out.”
Sarah Gordon: “I would give all my friends a million dollars.”
Kayla Berry: “I would buy an island because I would have to move otherwise. Everyone would mooch.”
Megan Volz: “I would buy a new sick ride.”
Amanda Faust: “I would tell all my friends not to worry about paying for college anymore.”
Abbegail Himmelmann: “I would leave St. Louis.”
Sarah Ponder: “I would travel super far away.”
Abigail Schrumpf: “I’d probably have multiple houses.”
Brittany Bell: “I would go to every Olympics ever.”
Rebecca Cook: “I’d give my parents some, buy Breckenridge, Colorado, and own and run a ski resort.”
Rachel Polster: “I’d go to college, buy a private island, and create my own country.”
Megan McGinty: “I would pay for college and then probably buy a college. Then, I’d buy a private jet.”
Jordan Tucker: “I would pay for college, buy a gold-studded Range Rover, get plastic surgery, and a puppy.”
Madeline Miller: “I would buy a really big creepy house on the beach so all the children would be too scared to come in.”
Morgan Garner: “I would go to college and donate the rest to Syria.”