Today’s a special day for Malcolm X Elementary in Southeast D.C.—it’s Trayvon Martin Day.

WJLA reports that the school in Congress Heights is holding a series of events and discussions related to Martin’s killing earlier this year as a means to teach students about social justice, race relations and conflict resolution.

In an interview, Principal Principal J. Harrison Coleman spoke of the initiative: “My hope is that the takeaway is that we stop some of the needless violence that’s going on in the community. It’s all too relative to children in our community. The children at Malcolm X know the name Trayvon Martin, they know the incident and they know it basically because of what’s in the news and what they experience everyday. We hope we send a message that we want to stop the bullying…to bring about a happy spirit, a sense of bonding in the community and school.”

Coleman said that all participants in the day’s events would be given a can of Arizona iced tea and a bag of Skittles—the very products Martin had gone to buy before being shot by George Zimmerman.