Event Insurance

Hi everyone!
I'm so glad that I finally managed to log on here! :-) Anyway, I just spoke to my neighbor, the insurance saleslady, about T.U.L.I.P. insurance for our festival. Unfortunately, her specialty is personal insurance, but she will gladly help us. When I asked her about T.U.L.I.P, she said that the only thing she does know about event insurance is that the person who fills out the paperwork for an event can use the liability on their homeowner's insurance for the event. I told her that we do not need to resort to that if we use T.U.L.I.P. The problem is that I forgot to tell her the exact coverage we need under it. However, she will look into it tomorrow. The good news is that I told her that our event will be in Jupiter on December 11. Yay!!!
P.S. I'm sorry for the months-long delay in posting here. Thank you for being patient with me!
-Lauren

The Supernovas are Born

Alright, it's been a while since we've updated.

Since last time, we've done a number of things.

Lauren, Juliana and I met with a Mr. Derrick Easely from Parks and Recreation on September 17th to discuss the event. We made a few changes to our set-up and toured the area we'll be having the event. I haven't heard back from him yet, but as far as I understand we have the park for December 11th from about 7am to 6pm. Prepare for that date NOW. In case you didn't notice, it's the Saturday before semester exams. It may not be the absolute best date choice, but it's the date we were able to get and we're sticking with it. For the love off all that is still sane in this world, PLEASE PLAN AHEAD FOR THIS. Okay? Okay. You have been warned.

Anyway, we're going to need this insurance called T.U.L.I.P. It's going to cover everything we need and will probably be our biggest single expense. If you know a lawyer, if you have any experience with this, if you know anyone who might know a lawyer or know someone who knows of someone who has done this... talk to them. It might make our lives a little easier. If you need to add more "knows someone who knows someone"s than I have there, though, just default to research online.

We can keep our bounce house and stage, as long as the stage is... on the smaller side. Which is fine, because that makes it easier for us. We're going to need to rent tables and chairs, but probably not too many. We might even be able to make due with what we have as a group.

If you're going to research food vendors or bounce houses (and you should get at least a few), make sure they have their own insurance. If it doesn't say on their website, don't be afraid to shoot them an email or call them. Part of this project is learning how to do things like that and the experience is really something good to have. They'll be glad you called.

At our meeting last week, we decided on a new name for our group and for the event (Supernovas). Don't forget that for the meeting this week, if you're artistic, try to sketch out something as an idea for tickets, posters, and flyers. If you're like me and have no artistic talent, write something up that will serve as the words on the posters. Make a few variations. Include what you think should be on there, whether it be facts about Be a Star, our cause, their cause, what the event will include, whatever. Try to make some that target parents and some that target children.

Just now I sent a message to Vanessa, requesting a letter as proof of our hours for CAS by November. When she gets back to me about it, I'll let you know.

Also, don't forget that if you're falling short on hours, you need to find another activity to get involved with. Next meeting I will bring an example of one of my CAS logs to base yours off of. If you haven't been keeping exact track, use this blog and the emails we've been communicating with! They should give you a pretty good idea of what we've done when.

I look forward to seeing you all in Ms. Pitton's room on the third floor Wednesday!

~Melissa

Another Update

Bad news, good news.

Bad news: We are almost definitely not going to get the dates we want for the event.

Good news: There's still some hope of getting something in the general area, either before or after.

More good news: I've been ensured that insurance will be relatively painless. We can't start that, though, until we submit the application and get the dates.

What I'm going to do is put the dates on top priority and alter the event based on what's available. Which includes a long conversation on the phone with Tom Landy and a set of possible dates to ask about.

I'm going to propose ANY date that falls on a weekend in the entire month of October. If they have an opening, we want it. What I need to know from you guys is if you're okay with sacrificing parts of our event (like the stage or bounce house) for the Halloween theme?

The other thing I need to know is what you all want to do in the event that there are no free dates in October. Tom said we're onto a great start by having the paperwork and stuff we have, but things like this book up very early on by annual organizations. Even if we come across an open date, he will need to call the organizations that have done events there in the past to make sure they weren't planning on using it. They get priority.

If we can't get October, I think we should weigh the pros and cons of a winter theme and a fall theme and choose one of them. If we do November, we'll go for what openings there are for what we want. For December, it will be within the first week or two so we can have it done before CAS is due.

I really need all of your feedback on this.

Pleeeeease discuss this here. We can't arrange another meeting, so this is your only chance to say anything about it. I'm going to call Mr. Landy back on Friday. I know it's not a lot of time, but that's the way it is.

-Melissa

Letter Approved

Success! As far as legal work, all we need now is insurance. I'm going to call Tom Landy (park manager) again tomorrow to ask him about what we'll need and where we need to go for it. If he says the date for the event (10/30) is free, I'm going to call my neighbor and ask her to see if we can start advertising soonish.

People who are handy with paint, crayons, pastels, and the like, start making ticket designs and signs and whatever. If you know someone artsy, ask them too. We're going with the name "Shadow Dancer's Festival", unless someone thinks they have a better name. Making tickets would be the way to get some of your hours if you're falling short. We've been waiting for a while, so a few of you probably are short. If you haven't been keeping track of hours, you need to start keeping that log because once school starts up we're going to be too busy and tired to even think about what we ate for breakfast during Psychology that morning, let alone what we did months ago, where, and for how long. I'm going to post an example of what your logs should look like using our main events (car washes, meetings with kids) and stuff so far.

Don't forget about our carwash coming up on August 7th! Tell everyone about it!!

I'll let you all know how the call with Tom Landy goes~ See ya!

~Melissa

Meeting of June

Okay, this is a bit late but it will give an update on what is happening this summer. Some answers are not completely clear yet as well as some of the dates. So for the people that could not attend the meeting this month here is what we discussed and how it all went down.
Car washes--- car washes have not been scheduled as yet; however, there should be some coming up. Hopefully another meeting should be happening where we can finalize a date. Maybe we can have a discussion on facebook or IM.
The club--- we are planning on making this CAS project into a club. Yes, we know, how cliché. But we're doing this for the good of this project. If we get the school thoroughly and officially involved, we get more public support, we could hand out flyers, and get other clubs involved to help us. Not to mention perhaps we can recruit underclassmen to keep this act of utter kindness alive. So the job here is to start thinking of catchy names, acronyms, symbols, and so on. So that when we sign up to make it a club we can have something to call it, instead of referring to the project as an "it". :) So if an idea strikes you feel free to post a comment for a name.
The major event of the year--- The art festival fundraiser. This is being held in October, however, this event is so big we might have to get this party started now. For those of you wondering what's happening in October, let me fill you in with another post.

Also just for the record, some CAS members did visit and volunteered at the St. Mary's hospital in June once in the month past. Those members do get hours for that and I heard the visit went well. :) Yay! Great job!
~~Celine~~

October event

This fundraiser will be held at a park, the name of it escapes me but once I get that tidbit I'll put it in. This park will be ours for the second or first Saturday in October. It will have fun games and crafts for kids and little booths where parents could come out and buy things for the fundraiser and what not. Sounds fun right? Well we have many things planned so I'll list the things we need to get done and some of the ideas and activities we want to have during the fundraiser.

Build a stage--- this is for a few speakers to come out periodically throughout the day either to thank people for coming, inform people about the event or the cause etc. Therefore, the task would be to get a stage built and get speakers, if anyone knows some important people or someone associated with the project in anyway try to get them to attend as a speaker. (We also need materials and a person who knows how to work power tools without sawing off a finger for our stage)

Games--- we'll also be making some of the games out of wood, if you have any games in mind that you find fun comment so we can brainstorm a few.
Arts and crafts--- face painting, egg dying (orange and black), pumpkin decorating, stuff like that, keep to brain storming for that as well.

Special effects and features: fog machine, decorations, music, bounce house, sliming, pie booth, prizes for games (glow sticks, colored hair spray, plastic toys, you know), program with the speakers and activities with a map of the park and stations on the back, lost and found area. Not all these things will be possible to accomplish for the event, but this is the brainstorming we did. Some of the things like sliming or pie booth, which would be fun but very messy, may not be feasible unless we find a creative way to make it safe and clean. At the next meeting, we'll divide these different items and tasks among the group so we can get it started.

Cut out boards for photos--- this is with the pictures with the faces cutout and people put their faces in the holes and take funny pictures. We need to brain storm something fun for a picture and get that started.
Tickets--- for the event would need to be sold way in advance as well as advertising such as flyers. (This probably does not have to be done so early in the game, but it's a major component of the event). So things needed to be printed are the tickets, flyers, and program schedule with the map on the back.

Advertising--- it would be good to meet with schools near the park, the location of this place has also escaped my memory. (I'll fill it in once I get this info too) Yes, so meeting with schools to get the word out about the event and perhaps get permission to sell tickets at a discounted price to the event. Also advertise the event in places young children and parents mill about, like libraries, grocery stores, etc. We'll even get posters up at our school once we become a club. And Juliana said she'll handle getting an ad in the newspaper.(this may be too early for advertising, but it's something to keep in mind)

Volunteers: Yes, I know you're thinking what a lot of work this is going to be. But let me just inform you that we will have help. Right now we have ten people in our group alone. However, in the next school year we will have much more as a club and we'll have other clubs such as the art club involved with some of the things they specialize in. (photography club will even be there to record the event for us and art club would be there to make the cutout board, the face painting, and all that jazz). So no pressure, we'll get it done.

Shirts: for the event we'll have matching shirts which we'll decorate so people would recognize the volunteers when we are there at the event. At each booth or station there will be the needed number of volunteers, (face painting booth, ticket selling booth, lost and found booth) you get the gist. Which gives you a slight idea of the large number of people we'll have to be recruited. Since making this event possible is a serious job, consider the people who can work hard and follow directions as possible volunteers.

Pledges: Okay someone asked if anyone in this project was involved in iWalk and I believe that we discussed getting the CAS members involved in iWalk to raise money for our project through pledges for the cause. Still, this is not actually decided yet.

Food--- Saving the best last. We need to contact venders so that we get these event goers some grub.

Okay, so this is all that we discussed, please ask questions about anything you are unsure about. If you can fill me in on the names of some of the things I missed or perhaps the information I may have gotten twisted, that would be greatly appreciate. I hope to get a meeting in this month soon, even though Melissa is not here right now to attend, just to get a date to some things like a car wash finalized if possible. Or we can wait until she gets back too, that's good, but we still need to talk about it. :)
Okay bye!
~~~CeLiNe~~~

General Updates and Brain Storming (Bullets at the bottom of the bulk of text for you tl;dr folk)

Since it's summer, and we all have off of school, I have a proposition. Our group has grown to nearly ten people, which is incredibly awesome, but when it comes to volunteering as a group in the hospital it's just too many. For those of you who were there when we met the children the first time, our space was limited and at times it was awkward because we had extras that didn't have much to do (there were, after all, only two children that really participated, and there were 5 of us). My suggested solution is to, of course, break us up into different meetings.

We can only visit on weekdays, and I want to say that we shouldn't send more than three or four people per meeting.

I've called the Child life Institute to ask when we can volunteer again, but Rachel wasn't in. When she calls back, I'm going to see what suggestions she has (maybe they have some other things we can help out with so we can send more people at once).

The first dates I'm going to ask for are Tuesday (6/15) and Thursday (6/17) and with the same times as last time. We lasted from about 12pm-3pm, but we could have stayed even longer. *(see edit) The people who drive themselves can play it by year, but everyone else plan on a three hour visit.

We also should break it up so that there is always someone around who knows some Spanish. Yes, I'm looking at you, Lauren and Juliana. Possibly you, too, Kat (if you're fluent and willing~). At first, let's try to revolve the people going. If transportation is not a problem for you, let me know and we'll put you on the backup list. If there's a day we schedule, and we weren't able to get three or four people to go, you'll be the one that can jump in for extra time. That way we can keep it fair and not-crowded. For the sake of organization and management, though, either Juliana or myself will probably be at every meeting until more of us get familiar with the people we're interacting with and the fine details of what we're doing. The less confusion the better.

CRAFT IDEAS! YOU HAS THEM, YES? We're looking for something that doesn't need to be incredibly structured. Last time, we started with aliens and ended up with jewelery and eyes glued to our foreheads. The kids were kind of mushy in spirit at first, so also think of something that doesn't need an incredible amount of energy - physical or mental. Be creative! This is the best part of our project!

Also, on the note of crafts...how should we be paying for craft supplies for these meetings? Should we all chip in, I dunno, $10 and budget that to last the summer or should we dip into our earnings thus far and use that? I think we should avoid taking anything out that isn't for the actual festival, but I don't want to have to ask you all to pay, either. Your thoughts and opinions?



TL;DR (Too Long; Didn't Read, for future reference)
- Any suggestions on how to break up our group so we don't have too many people at the hospital at once?
- Any craft ideas? Our age group is pretty young.
- When we buy craft supplies, should we dip into our earnings thus far, or should we chip in as a group and buy them with our own money?

THESE are the pressing questions at this point!

Also, I spoke with Vanessa, and she's waiting on their lawyer to find out about the insurance part of the park permit before they give us the paperwork we need. I thought we would have to do it ourselves, but I guess we'll wait to see what they have to say.

Hope that wasn't too much to read!

With love and stuff,
~Melissa

*EDIT: Okay, so, I talked to Rachel, and we're on for THURSDAY (6/17) at 1:30pm!!! We need SIX PEOPLE to come. And a parent. They're going to break us up into two groups of three. They ask that we do something sort of similar to last time and bring a parent, again, but this time without the siblings. Apparently the reason we need a parent is because we aren't registered as volunteers with the hospital. We'll have to work on that.

WHO CAN COME?

Contact Information

Sorry for yet another post, but we're having a busy week! This is sort of unrelated to everything, buuuut...

We definitely need a way to have meetings over the summer. Since it's so difficult for us all to get rides, the best way to interact is over the internet. I think AIM is most popular, so post your AIM address here.

I think there's a few of us that don't have one.

We could use other mediums if there's a problem...but we'll try to work those out as we come across them. The screennames are easy and free to make and I'm pretty sure you can use AIM without downloading it. It isn't very taxing on your computer, either, so there aren't many reasons not to download it if you don't have it already. If you have issues, I could help walk you through it.

It would just be much easier to say "everyone be online at 7 on Friday" than "everyone meet at the library in the middle of the day".

Once everyone posts it, we'll all have the information handy.

Yay or Nay?

~Melissa

Celebrity Help and Music for the Event

Hey everyone!

It’s Chelsea again. In my last post I mentioned that I was going to be working on sending letters to celebrities to see if we gain their help with raising awareness and money for our cause, and I’m going to elaborate on some more of my thoughts here. My first issue is where to send the letters to. Now, I can actually mail out letters to the address listed for fan mail, or I can send messages through the artists Facebook accounts. I was thinking of using Facebook because it ensures that they’ll get it faster and we could get a reply faster as well; also I think they’d be more likely to see it there. I know agents are responsible for reading a lot of their fan mail for them, but hopefully we can still get them to see it and get an actual reply.

There’s also the issue of who to write to. Some people that I know would appeal to the kids at the festival would be people like Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus, and Justin Bieber. However, we might be able to get a greater response from a celebrity who is maybe from Florida or has worked with charities in the past. I’m currently researching that right now. This may include people that would be unknown to the kids at the festival, but widely known by other age groups. Do you think it would be a good idea to appeal to them as well? If another celebrity could donate signed items or money; come to our event; or publically speak about it to the press, it would tremendously help with raising awareness. Although our primary target for the festival is children, our primary target for raising awareness is everyone, and this could help.

Also, I know we thought about having celebrities donate signed items to auction off and raise money, but what about donating some of these signed items to the children with cancer? I think that would really make their day—to get an autograph from their favorite celebrity. Maybe we can interview the kids at the hospital and ask who their favorite celebrity is and see if we can get something donated to all of them—or, at the very least, a few of them.

Another idea I had is in regards to having live music for the festival. I don’t know if any of you know Maria Garcia, but she runs a music webzine, http://www.straightuprandom.com/, and interviews a lot of local (and even non-local) bands. If you guys wanted, I could talk to her and see if she knows of anyone who would like to perform at our event. I think having live music could draw in more people and help us raise even more money; However, it is primarily a kids event and I’m not sure if it’d be a good idea to have music that wouldn’t appeal to the children at all. We could just make a playlist of music they’d like and play that, alternating with kid’s karaoke instead. Or, maybe we can do both. We can have a band come and play for a little while and then have kid’s music and karaoke the rest of the time.

Honestly, we could probably have a whole separate event to raise money and awareness by having a few bands get together and perform—a sort of concert for charity. This could appeal to teenagers and even adults and further our awareness and raise a lot of money. I know we’ve already got a lot going on and it might be too much to try to have a whole other event, but if you guys are interested in the idea, then I can look into it. These were just a few questions, suggestions, and concerns I had in regards to all of this and I thought I’d see what everyone else thought about it. So please comment with your opinions on all of this. Thanks!

—Chelsea

A New Way to Raise Awareness

Hey everyone!

I just wanted to create a post to inform you all of an idea I had in regards to raising awareness for our cause. I think it would be interesting—if I can make it work—to create a book that incorporates facts, real-life stories, and pictures to portray the life of a family who has a child with cancer, and the life of the child as well. It would inform the public of the struggles involved with being a child with cancer or the family of a child with cancer (including financial difficulties, emotional difficulties, etc) through facts; interviews with children, families, survivors, and maybe even doctors or hospital staff who have worked with these people; letters written by children with cancer; and pictures (of children, their families, the hospitals etc), among other things. We could talk about the Be a Star Foundation, our cause and event, and ways to help these families and children out as well.

Although it would be rather difficult, I think it would be amazing if I could get all the information I need and put the book together as soon as possible so that we can actually get it published! If we get it published we can speak about it at our event and even sell copies there as well. To get more people interested in the book, we can try to speak to news stations and ask them to mention it (didn’t someone say we could get the news to cover our event?) and do other things to raise publicity. I’m sure people would be interested in buying the book and I think it would be a great way to raise awareness. I’m not entirely sure how I’d write it yet. I can tell the stories as biographical accounts or include actual interviews, for example. I love to write, so maybe I can even create poems or something of the sort to include in the book as well (ones that relate to the cause, of course). I’m not entirely sure yet, but I’ll make sure to keep you all updated on things as I figure them out.

As of now, the things I’m going to start researching are: How to get a book published; Ways to publicize the book should we succeed in publishing it; Facts about cancer, children with cancer, families with cancer, etc. And I’ll also start looking into people, families, and children I can interview as well. I’ll try to do most of this myself, but I’m open to any suggestions any one has or any information they have that would help me put this together. So far, I’ve done a little bit of research on publishing and it does take some time to get it published. You’re main problem is finding someone to publish it for you, which could take time. Another alternative is self-publishing. Self-publishing would allow you to get copies of the book and have the book sold only locally, but it costs money to do that whereas the other option is free. Perhaps if we can’t find someone to actually publish it, we can have someone donate money to help us with self-publishing. Another problem I think we’ll have is the time constraints. I’d really like to make this work though, so if we can’t get it published by the event then I think that would be okay. I’ll try to get it done by then, but if not, I’ll continue my work with it and get it published later on down the road and we’ll do what we can to let the community know about it.

I’ll also try sending an email out to Julie Healey or Vanessa Simmons to ask them if they have any suggestions for making this work or resources to help us do so. I’d also love to hear what their thoughts on the idea are. I’ll probably send them a link to this blog. So, this is about the extent of my thoughts on this so far—it’s only a newly formed idea, after all—but I think it has a lot of potential. What do you guys think?

— Chelsea

P.s. I'm also going to be working on writing letters to people of importance (famous people, for example) to see if we can get them to donate items such as a signed CD among other things. If anyone has suggestions on who to write letters to and what to ask for it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

~Workin' at the Carwash~

RIGHT! So we're going to need supplies next weekend and guess who has to bring them? That's right! Us! So instead of trying to remember what everyone does or does not have during one of our lunch meetings, I thought the best way to organize this would be to make a list on the blog. That way everyone can access who is bringing what and no one has any excuse for not bringing what they said they would ^_~ Not that any of us would do that (except me).

This will also help eliminate the problem of 5 people bringing buckets and no one bringing sponges.

Here is a list that Juliana got from the manager at the Shell's station. He's been very supportive, so kudos to him! Thanks!

Need to bring to Car Wash:

1. Attention getting signs to be held on the corner

2. 2 or 3 buckets

3. Sponges

4. Dove dish soap

5. 2 hoses

6. Hose nozzles

7. A hose “T”. See me on this

8. Chamois, no towels

It's also been suggested that we pre-sell tickets. So we'll need someone to design a ticket on the computer so we can print and cut up copies to give to people when they buy them.

Just comment to this post saying what you can bring. Everyone should be able to bring SOMETHING. If you can't bring anything, then you can make posters. I think we'll need about four or five. BIG letters with nice advertising techniques to make people want to pull up and let us wash their car. You know how to do it.


Thanks to all~ Look forward to your comments!


~Melissa

Our First Meeting~!

Hello everyone!

This is Melissa here updating with last week's happenings. On Thursday we had a meeting to finalize everything and on Friday five of us went to Saint Mary's Children's Hospital to do arts and crafts with some children in the pediatric oncology ward.

Setting this up was a relatively painless process. Actually, it was totally painless. A few weeks back, we called the POST (that's, Pediatric Oncology Support Team) and explained who we were and asked if some kind of event would be possible. We were told that they would love to have us come and play with some of the kids. So on Friday (3/26) we arrived at the hospital with a bag or two of art supplies to make aliens out of pipe-cleaners.

We also had made birth certificates for the aliens that would be born that day.


Photography by
Celine!!! ;)
We tried to make it colorful and fun. We knew that the children would be on the younger side, so we left extra space to allow drawn answers for questions like "What is your alien's favorite spaceship?"




When we got to the hospital, we checked in with security and were escorted upstairs to the playroom. By the time we left, we had stopped making aliens out of pipe-cleaners and started making aliens out of each other, complete with extra eyes and antennas.

I couldn't get one of those up close photos of the aliens but I got the springy green one with antennas and some serious air hockey in the background. Oh wait I did get one UFO!

After we finished with that, we played air hockey and colored pictures. We ended up staying much longer than we intended at first, and I think we had a lot more fun than we thought we would when we first started. The two 4-year-old children that spent the most time with us really opened up after a while and ended up laughing and playing with us as if we had known them longer than we had.

I think the experience, as a whole (for both us and the children) was fun and definitely worthwhile. We left the extra art supplies there so children who couldn't leave their rooms could still participate, and also so kids who did participate could make more later. When we left, we were given the contact information of who to call for a steady volunteer position over the summer. If we sign up, we could come in weekly to play with the kids.

I don't know about everyone else, but I can't wait to go back again~

P.S. If you have those pictures, please edit the post and put them in there =D

MS Walk Information

Hello to all on this wonderful Wednesday evening! This is Melissa here, coming to tell you about the MS walk that I promised I'd talk about. I'm really sorry for not doing this sooner. I honestly didn't realize that it was so soon. This week totally ambushed me.

Anyway, those of you who are in National Honor Society know that the MS walk is this weekend. I'm not sure if anyone there told you how to sign up, but it's really pretty simple. Go to this link here, click on "Join a Team" and type in "Suncoast" in the blank box that says "Team Name" next to it. Click the "Search for a Team" button. The team "Suncoast High School Computer Club" will pop up. Click it. Yes, I realize that none of you are in Computer Club, but they're the ones who got the school involved in it, and our school is walking as a team. Joining as the team also helps the school reach its goal of reaching $2000.

The walk takes place this Sunday, the 21st, and you must pledge at minimum $25. If you raise at least $100, you get a nifty T-shirt. The walk takes place in City Place (See what I did there?) and there will be food supplied by various places like Panera Bread... We will take note of places like these and ask them to participate in our events too ^_~

If you have any other questions about the MS Walk, don't hesitate to talk to me. If I'm not available for whatever strange reason, members of the Computer Club are sitting at the table in front of the cafeteria EVERY DAY during lunch. They will be more than happy to answer your inquiry. And then they'll ask you to put money into their piscotti collection jar. But your question will be answered.=

Hoped that helped those of you who were interested! Don't forget about tomorrow's meeting!

Signed,
Melissa

Last Week's Meeting!!!

So last meeting we discussed:
-What candy we're going to sell for fundraisers (I think it's the Sam's Club stuff.)
- We decided that EVERYONE must try to find locations for a car wash, coming up soon since weather is warming up.
-Walk-A-Thon (held at John Prince Park)
• it's within the budget to hold the walk-a-thon @ JP
• Need to find sponsors for food and water
• May want to think about ways of getting some music
• Advertising etc
-Kid events at Palm Springs Library (A great place to sell some cookies)
- During spring break, members will have a chance to volunteer and meet the children we fund raise for and this will count as CAS hours too.
• Find out if we need special permission to take pictures with children
•Set a date when most people can attend this event during spring break.

Last meeting we introduced two new members and had everybody show up for the meeting. Great job everybody! :)
Well keep up the good work and hope to see you all here for next Thursday's meeting.
We have to start taking pictures and posting them soon. So I might take a picture of us in the meeting for visual proof.

See you then!
Celine

P.S. please comment if I missed a topic that we discussed last week.

Candy, Candy, Everywhere...Well, not yet

Hello to all~! This is Melissa here kicking off the "Which candy would YOU like to sell?" post.

As I mentioned in the email, right now our main focus is raising money. Like many, many, many people, we were quick to realize that chocolate the way to win the support of the masses.

The way this post should work is simple.

Post the link to a website that you think we should use. Say why that company is a good choice for us. There has to be some kind of special benefit that they offer that they think makes them better than every other company. Our goal is to find which one is right.

When doing this, keep some things in mind.

- Buying cost.
- Selling price.
- Possible profit.
- Aesthetics. Would YOU buy it?

I'm going to post an example after I finish writing this. I might list some pros and cons of my chosen site, but you don't have to unless you've noticed anything in particular that stands out. I encourage you all to respond to each other, and pay attention, because we're going to vote on which site to buy from at the meeting after the one this Thursday.

I hope you're all ready to become first-class salesmen!

~Melissa

Info on Last Meeting

Okay, last week Thursday we had a meeting. We had four people show up.
Pity.
The small size of members at this meeting was a point we discussed in our meeting. If you know members who are not reading their emails or coming to the meetings please fill them in so our meetings can include them. Otherwise, this restricts them from participating in our CAS project.
We also discussed Jullianna's last email, which assigned everyone jobs and a partner to work with. Please get in touch with your partner, just to make sure they know about the meetings and other updates. And we talked about the possibilities for new fundraisers and effective locations for these fundraisers as well.

So far here's the list:
Library (bake sale or flyers for awareness)
Park (walk-a-thon)
Kravis Center (Bake Sale or something pertaining to what the arts has to offer)
Norton Art Museum (Same as Kravis)
Other schools
And so on.

So if you have any ideas remember it for the next meeting and we'll discuss it then.

See you then!
Celine :D

Blog Rules

Hey,
Celine here, your new blog creator and supervisor. I just wanted you to know the purpose of this blog and the extent to which you may use it. This blog is intented to be part of the CAS experience used to fulfill one of the eight objectives for this project to be valid. It also serves as an accurate way to document our project. Since those of you who have Mr. Fresco know that he'll ask if you have a blog set up as a means of CAS documentation. Hopefully, if this blog continues, we may post about new ideas for fundraisers, comment on possible times and dates for meetings and activities, post pictures and recapitulations of recent activities and use this as a "CAS diary" to reflect on personal difficulties faced as a member of this CAS project, whether it be working with a team, time management, etc. As well as the ethical issues that may crop up during this CAS project. The acknowledgements of ethical issues is a crucial part of the CAS objectives. Members may even ask questions to initiate said responses and conversations.
However, this is only for the CAS project. It is not meant for general Suncoast talk, like what was the homework for math class. That's why we have facebook children. ;) This is strictly for CAS, and as a member of the project please try your best to help with the documentation of our hard work, which will inspire and spark new ideas and similar activities for the future.
If inappropriate posts are published unto this blog, I'll have no choice but to censor it, so deal with it. And so that we know who's speaking you may want to mention your name somewhere at the beginning of each post and stick with one personal font style and color.
Also, pay attention to my posts, oftentimes they'll have important information about the blog whereabouts and hopefully won't be this lengthy. :D

Well happy blogging!!!

Celine ~Simi~