Meeting Minutes - 2012 HOBY Maryland Leadership Seminar Committee - October 9, 2011
Aaron M. Bernstein
Maryland Leadership Seminar 2012
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October 9, 2011 |
The Frost Center, Rockville, MD |
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Welcome and Self-Introductions In attendance: (37) Ben Allen, Carol Applegate, Nikephoros Argeroplos, Beth Awalt, Aaron Bernstein, Robyn Bernstein, Caroline Brigham, Justine Cerruto, Jeb Cliber, Carson DeBonis, Pablo Escobosa, Christian Finamore, Justin Finamore, Alecia Frisby, Chris Frye, Sarah Hamad, Patricia Hanson, Montay Henson, Brandon House, Bobby Lardy, Connor Lee, Christine Lukban, Jason Ott, Martina Sahre, Jacob Schpiece, Hunter Scofield, Claire Smith, Jennifer Smith, Kyndrah Smith, Art Sprinkel, Valarie Timms, Kayla Tufares, Josh Urban, Greg Van Sutendael, Tracy Wertheimer, Jana Zachman, Lindsay Zachman
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Corporate President’s Report The corporate board supervises the three arms of HOBY Maryland: Seminar, CLeWs, and Alumni. They make sure we are financially stable, meeting national requirements, and maintain our corporate status. The Board is currently looking for a secretary. If you are willing please contract Carol. If you are 18 and above, the seminar will need to do a background check on you.
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Carol Applegate |
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Treasurer’s Report Elaine was not present to report. However, 2011 essentially broke even on fundraising with a budget near $48,000. The new fiscal year fundraising for 2012 has begun.
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Elaine Williams |
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Alumni Association President Advisor Tracy gave the alumni report on behalf of Taylor. HOBY MD is working on trying to help get HOBY going on college campuses. Teressa Ferraro is working on beginning a club at University of Maryland, College Park. For future events, the alumni association would like to be get the HOBY store there. We will need a volunteer to pick up the stuff and to take it back. Bryan Fitzhugh is looking to have a CLeW at Towson University. They are having trouble finding meeting space. For the Fall Reunion, Valarie Timms is planning a Dance-a-thon. Participants would come for 6 hours but don’t have to stay the whole time. Participants would get others to pledge per hour, or per song, and all of the money will go to stop bullying. We need a date and a time. Valarie was thinking around Thanksgiving, at a church she is familiar with in the Baltimore area. Reports were given regarding the two summer reunions at the Orioles game and at Sandy Point State Park, both of which went well. Lorena Smith is looking for newsletter articles for the winter edition.
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Taylor Zickefoose Brian Yee |
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2011 Seminar Review
· Program highlights included Chris Bowers, Sandy Queen, Travis Mason, and Kenny Capone · Need to work to ensure more group time · 215 ambassadors were registered, 201 attended, with 180 schools represented · Because of meeting our registration goal, HOBY MD gets ~$7500 back from HOBY National from registration fees. · Volunteerism Project – 7 sites, over 1000 hours of service completed · Staffing – 24 Facilitators, 18 JFs, 27 TA (largest ever in all 3 groups) · High praise for staff despite losing DF due to illness · New university partnership, new dorms, etc. were all viewed as very successful · Staff / Alumni feedback · Some confusion when arriving on campus · Good: that the TA in the red jackets to help direct traffic. · Registration went seamless on the part of staff. · Generally viewed that more staff needed to help with registration in new format · It is that we need better placement of the TA and the staff to help with the movement of people once they get on campus to check in to rooms. · Car paths could be confusing · Meal times were very short. The lines were long, and some times did not get over there on time. · Kids were confused on what to do when they got into the kitchen. Need better directions. · Positive we had a Catholic priest. · Party was very good. Dance was excellent. · Room was very hot for the dance. · Good: The niceness of the people, Facilitators and the Junior facilitators · The career lunch sign up was backed up. · Parents influencing choice of career lunch. · Need to look at alternative ways to do career lunch sign up. Be sure to give handouts of all the lunch guests. · Thoughts of doing the career lunch sign up online in advance.
Seminar statistics collected by Nick Rehak were presented.
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Aaron Bernstein
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Training Institute & Regional Training Training Institute, Houston, TX – August
· Who goes to TI? HOBY MD can send two volunteers to the National Training Institute. We look for volunteers who have experience and know what it is that MD does as a program, and for those who have shown they will use the training to benefit MD for the future. · Business from TI · Annual Volunteer Application required for use by all volunteers at www.hoby.org · New Social Media Policy for all HOBY social media channels · National Recruitment goal up to 9500 · All Transfers now $350. MD has taken this and use this number now for all second students. · Five registration waivers now provided for at risk students/ schools once 80% of goal is met · New national curriculum topic – Bullying. MD will implement this in our 2012 curriculum as a pilot site. · Three $1000 college scholarships are being offered by HOBY National for 2011 alumni who have completed and logged at least 250 service hours · HOBY is now a Combined Federal Campaign Charity (CFC) #15213 for federal government employees to designate. · Release of the 2012-2015 Strategic Plan
· Awards earned by HOBY Maryland at Training Institute · Outstanding Seminar (6 out of 6 categories) · Superior Corporate Board (4 out of 5) · Recruitment Award (to Jason Ott) · 3rd Place Website · Volunteer of the Year (to Aaron Bernstein)
· Regional Training, York, PA – Sat, October 29 · Recruiting volunteers at least 21 years of age. Aaron Bernstein, Greg Van Suetendael, Alecia Frisby, and Danita Frisby will all be in attendance.
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Aaron Bernstein Tracy Wertheimer, Kayla Tufares
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2012 Seminar Mount St. Mary’s University May 25-27, 2012 A new video introducing folks to HOBY is available at http://www.youtube.com/hobymd. The video is produced from content put together from HOBY MD 2011.
There is a chance 2012 will be a four day seminar. However, it will depend heavily on working with the university.
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Aaron Bernstein |
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Mount St. Mary’s Partnership Aaron will be meeting October 20 with Director of Conferences and Events Marianne Dempsey and Pauline Engelstatter, VP of University Affairs.
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Aaron Bernstein
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Program Program will in general run similar to 2011. Or that will at least be the base. |
Greg Van Suetendael
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New Curriculum A new element as part of a national pilot is being explored. The topic of the pilot is to an anti-bullying curriculum. Tracy is taking the program lead on the curriculum. To make it happen, MD will need to have some kind of therapist/social worker on site to help process potentially difficult issues.
Volunteerism Project Service project is looking at the same park site as last year. It would be good to get a new lead on transportation as it takes us seven buses and cost more the $2000 last year.
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Tracy Wertheimer
Kayla Tufares |
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Recruitment & Registration Recruitment goal will be set at 205 as per agreement with the National office. Aaron will be working with Jason Ott as the new lead as Director of Recruitment. Volunteers are needed to take on schools and recruit. It is not a requirement as in previous years. But, will help you earn your place of Team Alumni. A shared google docs spreadsheet will be used to coordinate recruitment.
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Aaron Bernstein, Jason Ott |
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Facilitators & Assistant Facilitators Alecia is looking to put together a large team of facilitators and junior facilitators again this year. If you know anyone college age, or in particular over 21, please ask them to come join us Memorial Day weekend.
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Alecia Frisby |
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Team Alumni & Operations Applications for Team Alumni will be available the first week of November. They will be due in January. Please try and get it done early. They will be electronic this year.
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Tracy Wertheimer |
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Corporate Fundraising New leads are needed on corporate fundraising. Hunter would like to take on a larger role with fundraising and soliciting advertisements. Bobby offered to take the lead on trying to sequester Walmart grants.
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Greg Van Suetendael |
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Career Lunch Art will be leading Career Lunch. We would like to get 36-40 participants. It will cost $200 / table.
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Art Sprinkle |
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Gifts in Kind There is a large list of items that can be donated. The list is available on our website. Office supplies are a big one.
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Public Relations Beth is taking lead on Public Relations for the first time. We need to discuss what we want the goal of our PR to be. She is creating a media kit. She would like to work with the alumni and the reunions to help generate publicity.
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Beth Awalt |
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Cooperating Organizations Kiwanis GFWC Jaycees Optimists Carol was the only member of the Cooperating Organizations who could be present, so spoke about the role of each of the organizations. In general, we are always looking for alumni and others to go speak with cooperating organizations to help generate publicity and fundraising for the seminar. |
Carol Applegate Christine Semon Anne Yakaitis Carol Applegate Dennis Lane |
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Sharing the News |
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Next Meeting |
Rockville, Maryland January 8, 2012 |
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Upcoming Calendar
October 29 Regional Training, York County Community Foundation, York, PA
November 4 Fall International Recruitment & HOBY T-shirt Day
November 10 Region B Conference Call
November 17 Corporate Board Meeting
December 2 Guaranteed Acceptance Date for Leadership Seminar Registration
December 8 Region B Conference Call
January 8 Seminar Committee Meeting, Frost Center, 4915 Aspen Hill Rd, Rockville, 2pm-4:30pm
January 12 Region B Conference Call
February 9 Corporate Board Meeting
February 16 Region B Conference Call
March 4 Seminar Committee Meeting, Frost Center, 4915 Aspen Hill Rd, Rockville, 2pm-4:30pm
March 12 Deadline for alternates to register for AIP
March 14 WLC registration opens
March 15 Region B Conference Call
March 16 Deadline to receive revenue share recruitment incentive
April 5 Corporate Board Meeting
April 12 Region B Conference Call
April 15 Spring International Recruitment & HOBY T-shirt Day
May 6 Seminar Meeting & Training, Frost Center, 4915 Aspen Hill Road, Rockville, 1pm-5pm
May 10 Region B Conference Call
May 16 New York Albert Schweitzer Dinner
May 24 Volunteers arrive for Maryland Leadership Seminar
May 25-27 Maryland Leadership Seminar
June 21 Region B Conference Call
June 30 Deadline for post-seminar reporting, awards submissions
August 9-12 Training Institute, Houston, TX
August 23 Corporate Board Meeting
Schools Already Registered (as of 10/8/11)
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Aberdeen High School |
Aberdeen |
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Archbishop Curley High School |
Baltimore |
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James Hubert Blake High School |
Silver Spring |
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Northeast Sr. High School |
Pasadena |
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Northwestern High School* |
Baltimore |
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Oakdale High School |
Ijamsville |
*First School Registered
Volunteers Currently Registered at HOBY Online (as of 10/8/11)
Approved:
Carol Applegate
Elizabeth Awalt
Aaron Bernstein
Andre Ferrell
Brice Gaston
Gregory Gautney
Montay Henson
Dennis Lane
Marcie Roan
Lorena Smith
Arthur Sprinkel
Greg Van Suetendael
Jeffrey Ware
Tracy Wertheimer
Elaine Williams
Anne Yakaitis
Applied:
Dennis Akwensioge
Numra Aqeel
Katherine Armstrong
Justine Cerruto
Pablo Escobosa
Ethan Ferraro
Patricia Hanson
Brandon House
Jody Lanza-Gregory
Mark LaPointe
Gloria Marino
Robby May
Jennifer Norris
Catherine Nwosu
Kyndrah Smith
Ankur Vaidya
Emma Zyriek
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Program Evaluation |
Nick Rehak, Evaluations |
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185 students, not all handed in evaluations, nor did they answer each question. |
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Event |
Speakers |
Answers |
5 |
4 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
Comments |
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Ambassador Registration |
TA |
162 |
73 |
61 |
24 |
4 |
Very Smooth*6, Organized**7, Friendly*3, long lines |
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45% |
38% |
15% |
2% |
0% |
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Getting to Know You Activities |
TA |
150 |
82 |
47 |
21 |
"Good while waiting" |
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55% |
31% |
14% |
0% |
0% |
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College Tours |
Mt. St. Mary's Staff |
149 |
62 |
43 |
33 |
7 |
4 |
very brief but we are here for HOBY, |
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42% |
29% |
22% |
5% |
3% |
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Facilitator Group Time/Welcome to HOBY |
Aaron |
159 |
92 |
60 |
7 |
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58% |
38% |
4% |
0% |
0% |
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Phase I - Personal Leadership |
Johnathan Weinstein |
153 |
83 |
59 |
10 |
1 |
Motivational, |
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54% |
39% |
7% |
0% |
1% |
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Leadership & Motivation |
Chris Bowers |
163 |
160 |
3 |
Excellent2,Hilarious!*6,Awesome*4,Energizing2,Motivational, |
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98% |
2% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
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Career Lunch |
Assorted |
147 |
83 |
52 |
11 |
1 |
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56% |
35% |
7% |
0% |
1% |
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Phase II – The Role of a Leader on Teams |
David Schroeder |
153 |
42 |
68 |
39 |
1 |
3 |
"Flying-V=Interesting"3 |
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27% |
44% |
25% |
1% |
2% |
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Leadership Labs |
TA |
154 |
96 |
47 |
6 |
5 |
lots of love for the Human Knot,"writing activities were boring", |
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62% |
31% |
4% |
3% |
0% |
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Panel: How do you recruit and lead a diverse team? |
Panel |
155 |
89 |
51 |
13 |
2 |
A LOT of love for Kenny & Mrs. Debbie Weed, most found entire panel motivational and educational |
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57% |
33% |
8% |
1% |
0% |
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Fallout Shelter |
Aaron / Greg |
161 |
101 |
50 |
10 |
Awesome, "Lack of challenege because G14 are great leaders", Interesting5, Great Debating5 |
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SATURDAY |
63% |
31% |
6% |
0% |
0% |
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Community Service Project/Invasie Species |
157 |
100 |
42 |
12 |
1 |
2 |
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64% |
27% |
8% |
1% |
1% |
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Leadership for Service Post Project |
Kayla Tufares |
157 |
52 |
83 |
16 |
6 |
"Loved the story about swamps and reflection" |
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33% |
53% |
10% |
4% |
0% |
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Phase III - Mobilizing Others In Action |
Paul Manuel |
162 |
49 |
77 |
30 |
6 |
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30% |
48% |
19% |
4% |
0% |
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Panel: What kind of World Will You Inherit? |
Panel |
156 |
99 |
45 |
9 |
3 |
From What Speaker Did You Learn The Most About The Topic: Travis=******8 Dr.Spence=**6 Yee=**2 Kane=*8 |
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63% |
29% |
6% |
2% |
0% |
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Hunger Dinner |
160 |
85 |
52 |
15 |
5 |
3 |
Excellent*, Well Planned, Educational*4, Eye Opening**3 |
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53% |
33% |
9% |
3% |
2% |
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Food For the Hungry |
Assorted |
159 |
88 |
57 |
11 |
3 |
Lots of love for Caitlin, Lots of love and HOBY HUGS for Carol |
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55% |
36% |
7% |
2% |
0% |
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Ambassador Showcase |
TA/Ambassadors |
157 |
112 |
37 |
6 |
2 |
TA could use polishing, Awesome! |
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71% |
24% |
4% |
1% |
0% |
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Dance |
161 |
132 |
19 |
8 |
2 |
"Party Never Ends", Lots of love for the Ice Cream Truck, Crowded4, Hot2 "Much better than expected" |
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SUNDAY |
82% |
12% |
5% |
1% |
0% |
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Volunteerism: Where Do We Go From Here? |
Panel |
161 |
105 |
47 |
9 |
What Speaker Did You Learn The Most From: Frye=****5 Caitlin=*3 May=***1 Yee=**1 "all were very inspiring" |
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65% |
29% |
6% |
0% |
0% |
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Goal Setting |
Hunter Scofield |
159 |
147 |
12 |
Inspiring**1,Amazing*6,Brilliant,Astounding,Moving*9,Helpful**5,Riveting "Made me cry" |
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92% |
8% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
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Future Kits, Thank You Writing |
Carol? |
159 |
93 |
47 |
15 |
2 |
2 |
Many left comments stating how they understood the importance and thought this was structured well |
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58% |
30% |
9% |
1% |
1% |
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Reflections on Life |
Sandy Queen |
162 |
153 |
7 |
2 |
Moving*3, Best Speaker of HOBY*, Amazing**6, Inspirational*2, Outstanding, Beautiful, Life Changing*, Really Funny6 |
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94% |
4% |
1% |
0% |
0% |
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Dormitory |
158 |
93 |
49 |
16 |
Spacious**3, Beautiful*1, Clean**2, Great AC*2, No mirrors in rooms*3 "Felt like I was at a family reunion" |
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59% |
31% |
10% |
0% |
0% |
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Cafeteria |
159 |
105 |
50 |
4 |
"Food=Amazing" Long lines |
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66% |
31% |
3% |
0% |
0% |
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Knott Auditorium |
155 |
101 |
47 |
7 |
Cold**6 "very comfortable" |
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65% |
30% |
5% |
0% |
0% |
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Ambassador Comments: |
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Loved it!! Have more fun/motivational speakers like Hunter and Chris |
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Sell "HOBY Hater Blockers" I will make designs!! Jeb Chloer? G14 |
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More group reflection time - Megan Fantom |
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Extend HOBY to Monday! - Radhika Patel |
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I enjoyed every single speaker and am so thankful they took time out of their lives to help influence us and give us advice… - Marquise Singleterry G1 |
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It is difficult to find something wrong with this program - it was the best. - Olivia Adams |
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This has been the best experience of my life and trust and believe I'll be back for the red jacket - Anthony Meely |
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Less presenters and more activities, find a more engaging way to present the 3 pivotal points. |
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During meal times, I would suggest dismissing tables at a time rather than letting every one go at the same time to make things less crowded and confusing. |
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I wish I could come here with the same people everyday - Edward A. Williams |
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Long lines = cold foods |
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Shout out to Montay (enthusiasm&great JF) Tiffany (awesome Facilitaor) Kester (for helping me when I almost passed out on Sat. morning) Karen (for very nice on the way to mass) Matt (for being |
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enthusiastic) Taylor Z. (for being an awesome fellow cougar) Aaron for running the show!! Carol (You Rock!!) Sincerely, Robin Wivell G20 |
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I really loved Chris and Sandy. They both made me laugh & Sandy really brought out my emotions. It was then when I realized how much HOBY means to me - Julia Cholewczynski |
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HOBY has helped me learn to be more open and step outside my comfort zones |
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The cheers were catchy and pumping. All the facilitators and TA's were constantly happy and welcoming. |
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My favorite part of the weekend were the panels, all of the speeches the panelists made were very well done, and everything that they had to say was fascinating - Brad Mullen |
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I would add more time to interact with different groups beause I really wanted to get to know everybody more personal - Alexis Alvarez |
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Sandy Queen is amazing. Chris Bowers is awesome… your timing of these two people isnide of the program is great. This is a well balanced conference - Dalton Leonard |
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Hunter's speech was the best of the weekend - Jordan Luber |
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Sandy Queen and Hunter have a very inspirational view on life |
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This has been a phenomenal, life changing experience. Thank you. - Amanda D'Ambrosio <--- She has incredibly neat handwriting |
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I liked the service learning project the best. It really allowed us to give back to the community and show people what HOBY is all about |
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I wish we would have been able to demonstrate more community service while here at HOBY. - Anthony Ellis |
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I love meeting some new friends, and learning that I can change the world - Lauren Jones |
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Maybe have more ot longer breaks in between panels to communicate with other groups and soak in information |
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This was a family-feel. I felt like I knew all of my colleauges were my actual brothers and sisters - Samuel Quade |
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Whenever people say they were inspired by something, I never really believed them or understood what they felt, but after being here at HOBY I have been touched by everyone and I really want |
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to get more involved with service activities :) - Lindsay Zachman |
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Thank you for changing me - Angela George |
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Overall Observations: |
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Received 163 Evaluation Forms. While some were not completely filled out, that's still a very impressive number |
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A good portion of the comments left were asking about sports activities, but clearly we cannot accommodate that request due to our insurance |
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Everyone absolutely LOVED Chris Bowers & Sandy Queen |
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It's very 50/50 on the temperature/comfort level of the dorms and auditoriums. |
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Many of the the ambassadors arrived between 7:45 and 8:30am |
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Not everyone got to participate in a Mt. St. Mary's Tour dude to their arrival time, which was expected. |
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Many ambassadors want the seminar extended and of course they brought up more time to meet other ambassadors as well as more time for sleep. |
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The ambassadors not only enjoyed the quality of the speakers, but many were receptive to the diversity. Many couldn't pick just one favorite speaker. Obviously some shined out more than others |
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but from a facilitator and evaluations stand point, these panels were very solid this year. |
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Many of the comments left talked about how life-changing this seminar has been for them :D |
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