The typical orchestra student is required to sell two boxes of chocolates as a part of their yearly fundraiser, but one student took it above and beyond. With each box containing 50 chocolate bars, some students struggle selling two boxes. But for freshman Simon Nagles, selling 100 candy bars was no problem.

Nagles was selling 200, 300, 400, 500, or even 1-thousand. In fact, Nagles has sold nearly 1,100 chocolate bars.

“At the beginning of the fundraiser it was kind of a lofty goal to try and break the high score for the number of boxes sold as a freshman and I didn’t exactly have plan for it I just decided to go for it and as time went on I realized that some places had more sales than others,” Nagles said. “So I began keeping track of all my sales on Google Docs and I would keep track of who bought what and how many so I could map out sort of the hot spots for chocolate of people who wanted to buy and so that about maybe three weeks ago and for the last two weeks of the selling period I got here at 8:00 everyday and from about 8 to 8:30 I would sell chocolate to whoever I could find and then from 8:30 to 9 I would sell to everyone coming in from the busses.”

Assistant orchestra director Victoria Lien believes Nagles has set a new record.

“It’s a great thing that he sold 1000 this is only my 2nd year but i don’t know anyone who has sold a thousand so far so it might be a new record,” Lien said. “Our main goal for selling chocolate bars is to raise money for the orchestra to put on our socials and to fund scholarships and other stuff for our seniors who are graduating this is our primary way to raise money.”

Helping raise money for orchestra is the primary goal, but Nagles enjoys the competition of selling the most.

“Personally I mean it’s all for a cause right the orchestra but honestly I think what kept me going is that i think it’s a lot of fun to sell,” Nagles said. “It’s just there is something about it being able to wake up early in the morning and just get to know people get to talk with people socialize with them and then the fact that you can track your progress as you go and just seeing how stuff just starts selling my first bar selling to mr. ham and then hopefully selling my one thousand 200th bar selling to mr. sabatier and so i think that process and the people you get to meet and the things you get to do with that is just kind of fun tot me.”