TAMPA, Fla. - These shoes were made for golfing.

These shoes were made with lots of color.

These shoes were made by kids.

"Honestly, I never thought in my lifetime I’d be designing golf shoes," Helena Noel said.

• Members of The First Tee of Tampa Bay helped design a golf shoe.
• They used images from Tampa Bay, First Tee and the Valspar Championship.
• The FootJoy shoes are available for purchase with proceeds benefiting the First Tee program.

Helena Noel is a junior at Tampa Prep. Golf is her life.

As a member of the First Tee of Tampa Bay, she gets to live her best life on the golf course. And she got to help design a golf shoe.

"It started out with some paint sticks on paper and like, "OK, go," said Morgan Litchfield, First Tee of Tampa Bay Program Director."They let them be creative. What a great opportunity. How awesome for them to see the finished product."

The instructions were simple. Draw something that symbolizes Tampa Bay, the First Tee, or the Valspar Championship, the Bay Area’s PGA Tour event.

Steinbrenner High junior McKenzie Kane’s contribution to the shoe — a bright blue nod to the Cooperhead Course’s famous snake pit. Helena’s contribution — an orange Skyway Bridge.

"Not everyone gets to have this opportunity," Litchfield said. "They get to design shoes."

That's what the First Tee does: it teaches kids to dream. Golf is the vehicle used to teach life lessons with core values like respect and integrity.

"The whole premise of the First Tee program is instilling leadership skills and life skills into kids through the game of golf," Kane said. "This game, it’s individual and it’s mental and you have to build up yourself mentally in order to prepare yourself and that’s exactly how life is, how the real world is."

But the real world has changed and this moment almost didn’t happen. The Coronavirus shut down the sports world, including the Valspar Championship where PGA Tour professionals were going to present the shoes to the kids.

With safety in mind, and keeping everyone six-feet apart, tournament officials figured out a way to pull off the surprise.

Tour professional Ian Poulter sent a special video message to the kids along with the shoes.

"I honestly did not know what to expect," Noel said. "I was just like, I just saw the boxes and I was just so ecstatic."

First, they opened the boxes. Then they squealed with delight at the sight of their shoes.

Then they tried them on and tried them out.

"The boxes are cool by themselves, but being able to open it and just see how cool the shoes are was amazing," Noel said.

The smiles said it all. These kids put paint to paper and their designs became a golf shoe filled with all the colors of the rainbow. And it filled everyone with some much needed positivity.

"It’s a tough situation right now, so it’s nice to have a little feel-good moment," Litchfield said. "And for them to really do this during a time when I think everyone needs a little uplifting is just amazing."