For the past four years, Kyra scadden, 6th grader at Hill Middle School, has been hosting a fundraiser to raise money to find a cure for SMA, a disease that afflicts her friend and fellow student Angie Lee. Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), the number one genetic killer of children under age of two, is an often fatal disease that destroys the nerves controlling voluntary muscle movement, which affects crawling, walking, head and neck control, and even swallowing and breathing.