March 30 Meeting Recap

[Kelly Jiang]

So as it turns out sitting on the floor in a circle does not really work for us...:P

Also, since there are SO MANY PEOPLE now, we probably have to split into subcommittees to plan each event. As Jennifer said, if you aren't 100% interested in doing this, don't come next time. Chatting was completely overpowering this time, and that should not happen again. If you're coming just to socialize, don't. (Or technically you could sit in the great hall and then go home at 3:15...XP)

So, since we have to split up into subcommittees, here are some "jobs" for each event--reply with what you're interested in and make sure you can actually go through with the duties you sign up for.

COIN DRIVE 

Jobs:

--Talk to Cassidy/Clapp/Mrs. Poblete to make sure they're all cool with it

--Morning announcement

--Signs/posters (i.e. PROPAGANDA!! You guys could have a work party sometime and make posters together.)

--counting money (probably need several people for this)

Essentially what Christina and I thought the timeline for this would be is:

4/9-4/13: Week after break; do morning announcements, put up posters, hype up the event!

4/16-4/20: The week after that; actually have the coin drive.

**Potentially, if we had good success with one week we could extend it or just have this be a two-week fundraiser. What do you guys think?

CARNIVAL/FIELD DAY

Jobs:

--PR team: Contact organizers, etc. (Also we could contact newspapers like the Redmond Reporter and ask them to do a story on us? To raise awareness?)

--Propaganda team: Make the propaganda to put in places :P so not like actually contacting people, but making posters.

Location: Redmond Elementary/old redmond schoolhouse (possibly)

When: Late June

What: 

• Talent show? (Although I don't really understand how this fits into everything else--perhaps have some people just playing with their cases open to collect money?)
• Booths: You could set up your own booth, or find others to set up booths there too. If you have your own booth, you're expected to give 100% of your profits to us; others probably can give 10-25% of their revenue.
• Art show: Have a gallery walk with some foldable walls or something with the pictures hanging up. Since art probably costs more than the crafts in the booths, we could probably take up to maybe 30-40% of what they make?
• Fun events: Just find some things to do that are legitimately fun for kids; offer community service hours for people to run them. (In fact, I think that you could talk about this in the next Honor Society meeting and say it could be a part of your "service plan" or whatnot?) For this, Megan also suggested a dunk tank. :D

OTHER IDEAS I'M TOO LAZY TO TYPE THAT MUCH ABOUT:

--Green fashion show (I'm still kind of confused about how it works--Sydney, could you talk a little bit more about this?)

--Derby Days booth (Lemonade stand hahahaha)

Over spring break, we really NEED to get started on planning. Leave your ideas/comments/questions below~

[Catherine Yao]

Hey! Sorry I couldn't make it to the meeting again today--couldn't get a ride home. :\

Anyway, are we still doing the coin drive? Can someone elaborate a bit more about that and how it'll work? Why should the kids give  money/coins? I mean with the teacher talent show, at least they had an incentive... but now what? Thanks. :)

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Catherine Yao

[Kelly Jiang]

Oops, sorry :P

Since it's against the rules to a. give rewards for fundraising and b. have homeroom competitions, we're doing something similar to what Samppala did a couple years back where they had a penny war between the grades. They ended up earning several hundred dollars within five days; if we continued that for ten days (two weeks) I think we'd probably get somewhere in the order of $1000! (Maybe. If each person donates $1 that's how much we could get!)
Kelly Jiang
Redmond Junior High
9th Grade Honors

[jEnNiFeR yEh]

Oh and also XP Sorry, but no, the meetings don't count as service hours :P for those of you who were wondering :P

Also the projects we discussed and kinda put aside (like the senior center) we can have as little side projects that are simple and 1-day projects :P We could also get together and make food and donate it to food banks or something (Stuff like this would count for service hours!)

and @kelly--the timeline thing sounds good! we just have to meet at least once during spring break... :P 

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~jEnNiFeR yEh

 

[Catherine Yao]

Okay, so the email to Clapp will wait until after the next meeting. Speaking of which... when/when will the next meeting[s] be? Thanks!

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Catherine Yao

[jEnNiFeR yEh]

Meetings are every friday, 2:30-3:15 

Christina and I are hoping to figure out the dates for two potential meetings over break! We'll get back to you on that!

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~jEnNiFeR yEh