Scavenger Hunt Prizes

I wanted to toss it out to the group on what could possibly make good prizes for the scavenger hunt. We were thinking about making the ticket prices at about $7 so the prizes should be a little better than that. The prizes need to be good for everyone and will be given out to the first place winners (a group of no more than 5 or 6 people). Gift cards were mentioned as a possibility--any suggestions as to where would be good. Please comment with any suggestions or bring them to the meeting Friday. :)

-Erin

Attention: Dine-Around Committee

Hey guys,

I'm pleased that we have a date and a place now for our dine-around in May but we really need to get into contact with restaurants around the area so we are not letting them know at the last minute. I think it would be best if we start to make contact with these restaurants this weekend in order to give them a fair amount of notice. Is anyone willing to go to certain places and tell them about our dine-around? I'll certainly help out but I think it would be best if we went as a group so we can cover more area but also make a more convincing case together. Comment if anyone from the committee is free the next few weekends to do this.

Thanks,
Ben

Upcoming Dates and Information

The Dine-Around date of May 2nd has been approved. Dine-Around committee, please be working on getting committments from restaurants.

The Darfur Doors campaign is shaping up nicely. We have agreements from 10 of the 13social studies teachers to use their doors. We'll follow up with the other 3 next week. The 'doors' should be unveiled either Friday, April 4th (our next meeting date), or earlier that week if that committee plans to do so. Totally their call and either way is fine. If they go up April 4th that still gives us a full week before the Holocaust Rememberance and Genocide Awareness Day and a full week that they will be up after the event.

The scavenger hunt date is also confirmed for May 20th. I followed up with the alternative school issue we discussed and amde sure that we would not have a conflict with library use. We are all good! Someone from that committee should speak wth Ms. Geldmacher when they get a chance to find out how she does registration for dodgeball through the computer.

Again, the bake sale was fantastic. Congratulations to all involved....good planning and follow-through!

Next official meeting will be Friday, April 4th.

Bake Sale

How did the bake sale go???? I stopped by there inbetween 5th and 6th and there was still a bunch of stuff left. Thanks to anyone who baked anything and/or sold today! :)

Meeting Recap

I don't know if anyone was assigned to the blog for this past week, but I remember most of what we did, so I'll summarize for those who weren't there.

First, Mr. Cone discussed the need for student action in planning activities. After having to do pretty much all of the work for last week's pizza sale, he and Mrs. Donohue decided that they would not enter forms for any events unless the students had already planned and worked out details.

Next, we had updates on the current situation in Darfur. The Janjaweed has returned to it's scorched-earth bombing practices, displacing over 75,000 people since the start of the new year.  I will post the New York Times article later tonight.

Everyone should go on http://purpleforpeaceintl.bravehost.com/

On this site, you can sign a petition to the White House in order to pressure the Sudanese government into allowing UN Peacekeepers to take action in Darfur.

Mrs. Donohue also told us that there is a student group at Stony Brook that has just formed which plans on raising awareness and funds for the crisis, much like we do.  We discussed the possibility of collaborating some events together.

Finally, we broke into committees. The bake sale is planned for March 17th (St. Patrick's Day) as long as the date is approved by administration.  See Mrs. Donohue or Mr. Cone if you would like to sign up to sit at the tables or bake something to sell. That is our closest planned event, but a Dine-Around in May (I think- correct me if I'm wrong!) and a Scavenger Hunt are both in the works, along with the PIG-Hours movie showing, the Doors For Darfur activity, and more pizza/bake sales.  

If anyone has any more ideas for activities we can sponsor (and is willing to plan/organize the event- ideas without people willing to work on them are pointless), he or she can speak to Mrs. Donohue or Mr. Cone, or come to our meeting this coming Friday.

Meeting Summary - February 15th

Good meeting. Below is an overview:

- I recapped the previous meeting and the progress that was made by each committee. I also spoke about the plans for this year's Holocaust Remembrance and Genocide Awareness Day. There will be a big focus on Darfur this year so 800 10th grade students (West and East Campus) will be educated about the issue.

- Scott informed the group that Congressman Tom Lantos of California has died. Lantos was the only Holocaust survivor ever to serve in Congress and was active in speaking out about Darfur.

- Danielle updated us about some current events. One of the stories she spoke about was Steven Spielberg stepping down as artistic director for the Beijing Olympics due to China's connection with the government in Khartoum. Harrini will provide the update at the next meeting.

- Committees met and we have some dates announced:
* Feb. 28th (the Thursday we get back) - pizza sale after school
* March 17th - Bake Sale (on St. Patrick's Day - think GREEN!!!)
* March 31st (or so) - Unveiling of the Darfur Doors
* April 10th - Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Day for 10th graders
* May 2nd - Dine Around
* May 20th - Scavenger Hunt
* Date Pending - PIG credit after school movie
* Date Pending - Battle of the Bands

Mark your calendars!

China

I think you guys should check out this link http://news.bbc.co.uk:80/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7242016.stm its about Steven Spielburg stepping down as "Artistic Director" of the Beijing Games.