Despite weather host Fifi Box developing pneumonia and being unable to undertake live crosses, LYNKS was still featured in two live crosses to Melissa Doyle and David Koch on the Sunrise program.

LYNKS and its state win in the Schools First Awards was to be highlighted in six live weather crosses throughout the program, but Ms Box's illness caused a change in plans.

Students from the four particpating LYNKS schools, supporting businesses and community members still attended St Francis College to be a part of the broadcast.

LYNKS program manager Sue Gavel said she still didn't know why they were chosen to be highlighted.

"They just rang up and said we've got an opportunity you might like and when they said 'do you want it' we said of 'course, come and we'd do anything'," she said.

"They said to us when we got here (Wednesday) morning they would have pulled it, but we had it organised so well, had so many props.

"(Ms Box) arrived and she wasn't well. We all just worked around it.

"What they're saying is we got more covereage anyway than if we did six crosses."

The first live cross at 6.30am was done with Mrs Gavel in front of a hairdressing set-up, with the second just after 8am in front of automotive and building trades. The second cross featured St Francis College principal Brenda King and Narrandera High School LYNKS student Shakira Lyons.

St Francis College has been highlighted by the Schools First awards as recipients had to be aligned with a single school.

Students from the College, Leeton and Narrandera high schools and Yanco Agricultural High School were involved with the broadcast on Wednesday.

Having won the regional and state awards, LYNKS is being judged for the national awards to be presented next Friday.

Mrs Gavel, Mrs King, LYNKS co-ordinator Tania Speer and chairperson Emily Currie and students Miss Lyons and KLathryn O'Hara (YAHS) will attend the awards night.

"I'm not nervous, just excited," Mrs Gavel said.

"We've got this far and we got $100,000, which we wouldn't have had and the program will keep going now for a year or two with that. We'll extend the program and build it and put more students in.

"To crack the nationals would be so wonderful."