Shown in the picture left to right: educational consultant and actor Paul Failla, Class of 2008 salutatorian Dinosca Umana, Allstate agent James Fox, student council President Sabrina Destime, senior class president and Class of 2008 Valedictorian Zaneta Wykowska, senior class advisors Deirdre Whiston and Kurt Allan, and SADD officer Phillip Brown. Walter G. O'Connell Copiague High School received a $1,000 grant from Allstate Insurance Company's Safe Teen Driving Program for the purpose of funding activism projects and programs that raise awareness of the need for safer teen driving.

The high school used the grant money to help offset the cost of the 21st annual Midnight Madness Post Prom Party that was held at Dave and Busters in Islandia, which is held in memory of Kevin Frommel who passed away graduation weekend twenty-two years ago.

"Following Kevin's death I vowed that as long as I was involved with seniors, I wanted to make sure that they were safe," stated Lynn Lyons-Atlas, a health teacher at the high school who has coordinated the Midnight Madness Post Prom Party the last 21 years. Approximately 270 students attended this years post prom party out of the approximate 300 students who went to the prom.