March 29 meeting

Agenda
Minutes by Cathy.  The meeting only lasted 20 minutes because leadership needed to attend Walk-A-Thon obligations.

1. STUCO's Walk-A-Thon 2016   Aubrey and Dylan
-YAC booth: Decoration of pinwheels as well as making miniature ones for the walkers and/or Children at Hospitals
-Sign-up for booth facilitators  Sign-up at Harper

2. Items from the Floor
- Students Rebuild,Healing Classroom Project Update and sign-up  ON PARKING LOT
- Classroom with a Cause:  A Perfect Pair Update and sign-up at Harper, Week of May 2nd-6th

- Strategic Planning Update and sign-up ON PARKING LOT

- Seniors who have not completed the requirement are still 9 (Spencer, Paxton, Gracie, Luke, Trevor, Max, Brandon, Jake, Jillian)  Nish, Dylan and Aubrey will continue to help.

-Date for Senior send off??? and Banquet.  YAC group picture during National Volunteer Week ON PARKING LOT

-Letter to CPO for audiovisual equipment ON PARKING LOT

- Request for YAC Funding:  Johnny will be approach by officers and/or Mrs. Clay

a. $35 to sponsor an autistic walker at the Autism Walk on May 7th.  Requested on behalf of YLOKC

b. $$ to treat ice cream or snow cones to children from Boys and Girls Club attending the Evening of the Arts with their art teacher.  Luke L. will host the students

c. $$$ to sponsor the family who will open the Walk-A-Thon.  Dylan stated that this will help STUCO greatly.  She also reminded people to buy the Walk-A-Thon T-shirt

3. Sign-up to volunteer during National Volunteer Week and the Evening of the Arts: Thursday, April 14.  20 students need to volunteer.  Grace will bring more information next week.

3. National Volunteer Week Schedule Update: Miranda, Cathy, Grace (flyer), Ellie, Evie, Isabel, Shaheer

-Monday, April 11:  PVSA @ Chapel.  Doughnuts after chapel instead of goodie bags

-Tuesday, April 12: Tea time with Service-Learning.  YAC showcases "A year in Service"  Tell your volunteer story in the YAC community Room

-Wednesday, April 13:  Thumbs Up For Volunteers: Roots of Service Quilt and Pinwheels for Syrian Children during Activities, 5th Hour and Double.  Tell your volunteer story-YAC Community Room In Harper

-Thursday, April 14: Thumbs Up For Volunteers;   Roots of Service Quilt and Pinwheels for Syrian Children, Tell your volunteer story- YAC Community Room in Harper
Double: YAC volunteers with Evening of the arts- sign up with Grace - Boys and Girls Club might bring a bus with art students and art teachers.  Luke L. is considering hosting the group and helping them enjoy evening of the arts.  A request to YAC:  Fund snacks and ice cream for Boys and Girls club.  How many are coming?  TBD

Global Youth Service-Day(s)

-Friday, April 15: Service out of uniform.  Wear a t-shirt of a place you volunteered.  Videotape your volunteer story at the Casady YAC Community Center Room in Harper
YAC Hands on Peace Team @ Boys and Girls Club with personal projects and pinwheels
4:00-5:00  Tutoring  Ration 1/1
5:00-6:00   Pinwheels Ration 2/20
6:00-7:00   Personal Initiatives:  Hip Hop, Zumba, Ballet, Debate, Basketball, Tennis, reading service books, etc   Ratio: 1/?

-Saturday, April 16: Being brainstormed!
a. Hands on Peace YAC Team tour of the Homeless Alliance: Investigation site visit in preparation for the Perfect Pair Project
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b. Volunteering at the Food Bank- Distribution of fresh products
c. Pinwheels for Syrian Children @ Vineyard - Canterbury-Epworth Villa

-Sunday, April 17:  Pinwheel making at home with friends, family and youth groups.
Last shipment of pinwheels will be mailed on Tuesday, April 19.   There will be a live webcast with Syrian refugee children on Thursday, April 21 @ 8:00 am.  The Hands on Peace Team will be excused from Chapel. Carl Albert is speaking at Chapel.  A recording of the speech will be made available.

Live Webcast Syria & the U.S.

This is a chance to connect with Syrian students we are helping by making pinwheels! RSVP now for our free, live webcast from Lebanon for the Healing Classrooms Challenge. See Syrian students who are beneficiaries of the Challenge meet American students taking the Challenge. Educators from Lebanon and the U.S. will connect as well.You can participate by sending questions through a Chat feature that will be answered in real time! Can't watch it live? See video of the webcast on our YouTube channel right after the live event.

National Volunteer Week-Global Youth Service Day(s)

April 10-16, 2016

National Volunteer Week is about inspiring, recognizing and encouraging people to seek out imaginative ways to engage in their communities. It’s about demonstrating to the nation that by working together, we have the fortitude to meet our challenges and accomplish our goals.

 Cyclone Volunteers for your time, talents & compassion

The Casady Service-Learning Program in collaboration with the Casady YAC (Youth Active in the Community) will have celebrations and service experiences for Global Youth Service Days (Friday-Sunday)

What?       National Volunteer Week  April 11-16, 2016

Who?        Casady Upper Division Volunteers

Why?        Thank you to Volunteers because YOU ROCK!

When and Where?

Monday, April 11: Chapel & Harper 

President Volunteer Service Awards 

Mr. Josh Bottomly, Speaker. YAC facilitates the Awards Ceremony 

Awardees receive medals at Chapel and pick-up certificate, letter from President Obama, and a sweet doughnut at Harper.

Tuesday, April 12:  Harper, Activities, YAC Celebration

Tea Time with Service-Learning & YAC

Enjoy this English tradition by Sage as YAC showcases " A Service Year."

Wednesday, April 13: Harper, Activities, 5th Period, Double

Students Rebuild Healing Classrooms: Pinwheels for Syrian Refugees

Help YAC raise funds and awareness.  Get a surprise thank you.

Thursday, April 14: Harper, Activities, 5th Period, Double

Students Rebuild Healing Classrooms: Pinwheels for Syrian Refugees

Help YAC raise funds and awareness.  Get a surprise thank you.

YAC volunteers at Evening of the Arts

Global Youth Service Days:  Friday, April 15-Sunday April 17

Established in 1988, Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) celebrates and mobilizes the millions of young people who improve their communities through service.  GYSD is the largest service event in the world and the only one dedicated to the contributions that children and youth make 365 days of the year.

GYSD is celebrated each year in more than 135 countries, with young people working together–and with schools, youth organizations, nonprofits, community and faith-based organizations, national service programs, government agencies, and  adult mentors– to address the world’s most critical issues and change their communities.

The goals of Global Youth Service Day

Scale: Engage millions of young people, ages 5-25, especially those not usually asked to serve, in an early step on a life-long path of service and civic engagement.

Visibility: Recognize, celebrate and raise public awareness of the year-round contributions of young people, youth service programs, and partner organizations, especially among the media and public officials.

Impact: Have a positive impact on young people and on communities through meaningful, youth-led projects that meet community needs in the areas of health, education, human service, human rights, and the environment. Projects reflect YSA’s four key strategies that create change: awareness, service, advocacy, and philanthropy.

Friday, April 15: Boys and Girls Club, 4:00-7:00

Serve at Boys and Girls Club

4:00-5:00   Tutor children with math and reading 1/1 Ratio

5:00-6:00   Students Rebuild Healing Classrooms Challenge: Pinwheel making with assigned groups. 2/20 ratio

6:00-7:00  Mentor children with your personal talent.  Volunteer decides ratio

Dance, play sports, play a musical instrument, read volunteer books

Saturday, April 16: Location TBA (International House at UCO or elderly facility)

Students Rebuild Healing Classrooms: Pinwheels for Syrian Refugees

Help YAC raise funds and awareness. 

Times: TBA

Sunday, April 17: Serve with your family, friends, place of worship 

Students Rebuild Healing Classrooms: Pinwheels for Syrian Refugees

Help YAC raise funds and awareness. 

The Freshman YAC team "Hands on Peace" will mail the last group of Pinwheels to the Bezos Foundation on Tuesday, April 19, 2016

SAVE THE DATE

Live Webcast with Children Receiving the Pinwheels, April 21

YAC Earth Day Celebration:  Saturday, April 23, 9:00 am Calvert

YAC Strategic Planning for School Year 2016-2015 

Saturday, April 30, 9:00-noon. Lunch by Grand House

YAC Celebration Banquet and Senior Send OFF 

Tuesday, May 9, 2016, 7:30-9:30 @ Grand House 

Welcome Back from Spring Break- YAC Agenda for 3/ 22/2016

This video is an inspiration about how teens and children collaborated to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day.  The video was part of YSA, (Youth Service America) Monthly Bulletin


YAC Agenda

Activity:  Pinwheel making for Students Rebuild Healing Classroom Challenge, helping International Rescue Committee to provide resources with $400,000 Bezos Foundation funding to help Syrian teens and children recover, grow and develop. Just like the Rainbolt Family Service-Learning Chair endowment helps YAC and Service-Learning operate at Casady School to help teens become local and global entrepreneurs of peace and social change.

Mr. Wesley Fryer provided the following links to a Syrian Refugee child story Clouds Over Syria as he demonstrated using google glasses for more interactive viewing connecting phones to free applications .

iPhone version:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vrse-virtual-reality/id959327054?mt=8 

Android version:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shakingearthdigital.vrsecardboard  

The movie "Clouds of Sidra is a large download so many take a bit depending on their Internet connection speed. The video "Clouds over Sidra" is also view-able in a web browser, but you can't move around to look at different parts of the scene as you can with the VR version: http://vrse.com/watch/id/21/ .

Agenda minutes by Cathy Z.
-strategic planning 

      - April 30 9-12

      - help to plan for next year's YAC 

      - even if someone if not in YACin 2016-2017 they can come 

- middle division baseball needs volunteers to help with concessions 

Agenda Items with minutes by Cathy Z.
1. Composting: As part of our strategic planning last year, YAC decided to help the composting project in March.  Anna M. will stop briefly to tell us her project needs.

- weekend of earth day (April 22nd is Earth Day)  Activity will be April 23

     - help plant herds and veggies   @  Calvert  1-3, April 23

UPDATE: Environmental Club will have an Adopt A Street clean-up in the morning 9-noon

2. The Perfect Pair Project for SoFTH Week  - update  Freshman Team

- needs volunteers that will stand in front of buildings (upper and lower divisions)

     - volunteers need to collect the socks that are donated, remind people to bring them, and      tally the number of socks that are brought

3. STUCO Walk-A-Thon and Bodine Elenentary Books -  update  Senior Team
Freshmen and Mrs.Clay's suggestions
a. Help decorate already made Pinwheels with messages in different languages
b. Play Let's Move Game,similar to one play at Fall Fest. We need sign-up for shifts once we know when the Walk-A-Thon will take place.

  - place mats 

     - decorate/make pinwheels #1  The decision was to decorate and give away Pinwhels, especially made as thank you for the people who stop walking to decorate pinwheels.  The YAC Hands on Peace Team will be making the pinwheels next week.  We need people to help at the booth, but

          - write encouraging messages on pinwheels

     - relay race with bowling pins and ping pong ball 

          - if they win they get a piece of candy

4. National Volunteer Week- update  Junior and Freshman Team

Monday, April 11th:  - Presidential Awards April 11, Mr. Bottomly speaker
- Chapel:  Medals and inspirational speaker at chapel.  Miranda, Grace and Cathy are handling this in collaboration with Evie, Ellie, Isabel, and Shakeer.  The junior facilitating team met during Spring Break to finalize details.  Miranda is the team leader and is working on re-writing the process of the award's chapel. Grace took notes of the meeting

we have 4 volunteers to pass out metals to the people getting awards 

     - going over the agenda for the ceremony 

     - after the ceremony the people getting awards will receive donuts 

     - during activities that day YAC will have a tea time to celebrate  This was changed to Tuesday

- 8:00 am- Activities  Certificates and Letter from President as well as doughnuts for award winners at Harper.  Grace will order 100 doughnuts and Mrs. Clay will pick them up.

Tuesday April 12th: 10:00 During Activities, Sage will have Tea Time with Service-Learning and YAC at Harper.  We welcome students and faculty to view project memories as well as enjoy a cultural English tradition.  Funding provided by the Rainbolt Family Service-Learning Chair endowment.  The Service-Learning Office is contracted with Sage for 100 people.
    - during activities that day YAC will have a tea time to celebrate  

Wednesday, April 12th - Activities Help Perfect Pair and Students Rebuild Healing Classroom Challenge- It ends April 30th.  YAC students get a volunteer Pen (100 ordered)

Thursday, April 13th- Activities Help Perfect Pair and Students Rebuild Healing Classroom Challenge- It ends April 30th.  YAC students get a volunteer Pen (30 0rdered)

4 Global Youth Service Days  - Freshman Team and Service Learning Office
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4:00-6:00 Friday, April 14:  Healing Classrooms: Students Rebuild Pinwheels for Syrian Refugees Project at Boys and Girls Club

Saturday, April 15: Healing Classrooms: Students Rebuild Pinwheels for Syrian Refugees Project at Independent Living facilities

Sunday, April 16:  Possible first date for S-L Banquet and senior send off
Juniors think the Senior Send off and Banquet should be the first week of May, May 9 or 10 are possibilities
1. Ideas for Senior gifts:  Grace is handling this
2. Banquet idea is still looking for tentative day when it will be best for the seniors and juniors due to conflicts with AP's and other celebrations.     - seniors need to get a guest list   

5. Youth LEAD OKC  Johnny, Mallory
April 3:  International Dance Experience
May 7:   Autism Walk

  - true dance: promotes learning dances from different cultures and countries

     - there will be a senior send off for the members of youth lead

     - Saturday may 7 : autism walk 

           - $35 to do the marathon 

6. Service-Learning Office Projects:  Mrs. Clay  ON PARKING LOT
-Seniors to complete hours: The Big 8 (Paxton, Grace H., Luke, Trevor, Max, Brandon, Jacob, Jillian)

- Letter to CPO for electronic equipment for Harper:  YAC wish list  Dylan and freshman?  Mrs. Clay and Mr. Snider will write the first draft on Tuesday, March 29th

* Letter to Mothers for Audiovisual equipment:  Dylan, Hannah, and Sahanya will update letter status.  Letter should be ready by the end of February.  Mrs. Clay bullet points from her perspective below.

 Writing Points

- Harper is used for many kinds of meetings. The technology requested will help those meetings run more efficiently

- YAC has very little time to do the amazing job they do of getting our teens to be active in the community. To  change the location of meetings in order to view videos and skype or do google hangouts with non-profit organizations takes time and is confusing.  Being able to do everything at Harper without having to request a new will make YAC's job easier and more efficient.

- The overflow of chapel goes to Harper.  If the chapel experiences are videotaped, people in Harper will not only hear it, but will be able to be part of the experience via video screen.

-Weekly agenda's are currently only viewed by officers.  Meetings will be more interactive if the agenda items and reflective pictures could be shared during "real time at meetings."

- Daily announcements and service opportunities will be made available on the screen daily.  It will be a reliable, current account of the service and youth board opportunities available with videos stating the mission, vision , and purpose of the organizations seeking volunteers.
-Classroom with a Cause and Debate Classes can provide quick presentations, videos.

March 21-26 

Celebrating FL WEEK @ Harper, Miller, Super Cao Nguyen & Pambe Ghana Global Market

Monday, March 21-Thursday March 24: Miller's Global Market: Let Mrs. Clay and the Upper Division Spanish I Class display your items from around the world at Miller.  Please label your items with your name and country of origin.

Tuesday, March 22 - Thursday, March 24: Participate in the Students Rebuild Healing Classroom Challenge. Make pinwheels for Syrian Refugees this week during Activities, 5th Period (students not in art, music or choir), and double when your teachers are NOT taking the double.  Make a pinwheel, get a piece of candy from SUPER CAO NGUYEN, listen to music from around the world, get service hours and help provide funds from the Bezos Foundation to the International Rescue Team on the ground organization directly helping Syrian refugee youth and children, recover, grow and develop.
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Friday, March 25: No Classes: Good Friday   10:30 am-12:30 Have an international shopping experience @ Super Cao Nguyen..  Bring money to eat lunch at Super Cao Nguyen or at international restaurants located at walking distance from Super Cao Nguyen.

March 26: Volunteer and/or attend Pambe Ghana Industry Flea Market, 9-3 pm.  399 NW 10th (corner of 10th and Hudson).  Mrs. Clay and maybe UCO international students (TBC) will be on site in the morning.

PAMBE GHANA NEEDS VOLUNTEERS  PAMBE Ghana’s Global Market is a seasonal fair trade shop. The Market is staffed entirely by volunteers and sells products from around the world, purchased directly from artisans or from certified members of the Fair Trade Federation. Fair trade principles include a guarantee that artisans are paid a fair price in the local context when the products leave their hands. They also receive assistance with quality control, design, and improved working conditions (see www.fairtradefederation.org for more information about fair trade).

Products at the Market come from Guatemala, Haiti, Peru, Ghana, Burkina Faso, India, Indonesia, and many other parts of the world. Information about the artisans is available for most items. All proceeds from Global Market sales benefit PAMBE Ghana and the La’Angum Learning Center in northern Ghana. Thus, purchases from the Global Market give triple benefit: by pleasing the recipient, supporting the artist who made it, and benefiting PAMBE Ghana.

1. INDUSTRY FLEA

Saturday March 26 from 9 to 3

399 NW 10th (corner of 10th and Hudson)

We need 3 volunteers for this, for two 3-hour shifts. 

We'll have a table under an awning. It is a sort of "hip Flea Market " 

You'll need to park, and the Industry Flea web site says they will have a list of suggested lots on hand.

Contact Sara Braden, Global Market Manager, srbraden@gmail.com, 210-5214

PAMBE GHANA FEST

Saturday April 9, from 6 to 9

St. Paul's Cathedral, 127 NW 7th St, OKC

We need 4 to 6  volunteers (2 to staff Global Market table, 1 or 2 to man the registration table, and 1 or 2 more to be extra hands and help out as needed.) This is the fund-raising event that was cancelled last year because of bad weather, so we hope it will be extra good this year. There will be music, international food tasting, and tables with items to sell (including the Global Market).  Contact Emmy Ezzell, Volunteer Coordinator

emmyezzell@gmail.com, 405 875 4372 to volunteer

PASEO FEST

May 28-30, at the Rainbow Fleet office, 30th and Paseo

Save the date and think about manning a shift or two.  Contact person Emmy Ezzell, Volunteer Coordinator, emmyezzell@gmail.com

405 875 4372 to volunteer

INDUSTRY FLEA

Sunday June 5 from 9 to 3

There will be more on this as it gets closer, but please save the date. Contact  Emmy Ezzell, Volunteer Coordinator, emmyezzell@gmail.com, 405 875 4372 to volunteer

Ideas from teachers to celebrate National Foreign Language Week http://mafla.org/advocacy-2/national-foreign-language-week/

Alpha Mu Gamma is the Official Sponsor of National Foreign Language Week

National Foreign Language Week was inaugurated in the Spring of 1957 by Alpha Mu Gamma. Sister Eloise Therese, the National President of Alpha Mu Gamma from 1956 to 1960, discovered that such a week had never been officially celebrated in the United States as a whole, although foreign language had receive recognition by different educational institutions at various periods of the academic year. 

Inspired by her the National Council of Alpha Mu Gamma began to formulate plans to make the United States aware of the need for and importance of foreign language study through the celebration of NFLW. The first celebration was set for the week of February 17 to 23, 1957. Each year since then the National Executive Council of AMG has set a week for this event. In recent years it has become the practice to have NFLW during the first full week of March.

On December 12, 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent a telegram endorsing the celebration, and each succeeding president has added his support. An even greater contribution to the success of NFLW was made by the posters of the late Bruce Russell, who received not only the Pulitzer Prize but also recognition from President Eisenhower for his efforts toward greater world understanding through his timely cartoons. He offered the Society a cartoon each year until his death in 1963, and even left one finished drawing and an unfinished sketch that were used in 1964 and 1966 respectively. These posters have been distributed each year throughout the United States and are available for sale to interested bodies.

The chapters of Alpha Mu Gamma, now spread through over forty states, took the initiative in organizing activities during the Week with the purpose of making the American student aware of the vital necessity for foreign language study. Typical projects were newspaper articles, radio and television programs, foreign language films, festivals of foreign music and plays, the singing of foreign songs and lectures open to the public. Soon other universities, colleges and schools were also celebrating NFLW.

Every year a NFLW poster with a new theme is printed. It is distributed free to all AMG chapters and is available for sale to the public. Normally the posters size is 24"x19", and are printed in two versions - one with the official date for the Week and one without. The cost, at present, per poster is $6 and shipping & handling is $6 (for 1-5 posters). Shipping is free for orders of 25 posters and above. They are mailed out in solid mailing tube by US Priority Mail.

The Official Theme for the year 2016 is:

 "Languages Enrich Your Mind"

NFLW official week in 2016 was  March 7 – 13, 2016

Students Rebuild Healing Classrooms Challenge: YAC sends send group of Pinwheels to Bezos Foundation during International Women's Day

Happy International Women's Day

With donated materials by junior Isabel S., and freshman Ellie G., and led by Evie W. members of the Class of 2019 have been making pinwheels to send to the Bezos Foundation which will distribute them to Syrian refugee children through the International Rescue Committee to Healing Classrooms in refugee camps. The Bezos Foundation will donate $2.00 per pinwheel up to $400,000 to help the International Rescue Committee provide healing resources to educators helping children at Refugee Camps.

During Peace Week 2015 (11 Days of Global Unity" 9/11-9/21 (International Day of Peace) the Upper Division YAC, in collaboration with Mrs. Clay Spanish I Class, the Middle Division International Club, and Youth LEAD OKC sent 250 pinwheels to the Bezos Foundation.  As an act of honoring International Women's Day, YAC will be counting and mailing a second installment of pinwheels for Syrian Refugee Children this Tuesday, March 8, 2016.  

YAC will continue to make pinwheels after Spring Break.  There will be a special time for pinwheel making during Global Youth Service Days April 14-16 when YAC will make pinwheels at Boys and Girls Club at Memorial Park and with neighboring elementary schools and elderly facilities

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Mr. Wesley Fryer provided the following links to a Syrian Refugee child story Clouds Over Syria as he demonstrated using google glasses for more interactive viewing connecting phones to free applications .

iPhone version:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vrse-virtual-reality/id959327054?mt=8 

Android version:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shakingearthdigital.vrsecardboard  

The movie "Clouds of Sidra is a large download so many take a bit depending on their Internet connection speed. The video "Clouds over Sidra" is also view-able in a web browser, but you can't move around to look at different parts of the scene as you can with the VR version: http://vrse.com/watch/id/21/ .

YAC Agenda

1. Metropolitan Library System: Come and Read with Me Books for Bodine Elementary: Dylan and Aubrey  Dylan is contacting the Bodine Principal to see if she can deliver the books Friday during Spring Break. If you want to join her, text her.

2. Students Rebuild Healing Classrooms: Pinwheels for Syrian Refugee Children: Evie and Ellie  Aubrey texted that we needed to start the meeting making pinwheels.  Evie led the team and during the double, they counted and mailed our second installment of pinwheels, 312, to the address provided in the Students Rebuild website 

3. STUCO Walk-A-Thon follow-up  Dylan We are still thinking of a fast activity that can be done with participants that will not take much time.  One suggestion was decorating the pinwheels which will already be made.  The pinwheels during the Walk-A-Thon will go to Children Miracle Network Hospitals

4. Items from the floor: Aubrey  On the parking lot
- Project Warm: RAK Positive Tomorrows with Reading Blankets Ellie

- Homeless Alliance SoFTH Project update: Ellie

-Composting with Anna Mann after Spring Break

-Athena Cares  Day cancelled  Mrs. Clay

- Youth LEAD OKC Any Youth Leader attending the meeting
March 6: Trumping Islamophobia: A bottle at the Gaza Sea movie and Kosher vegetarian pizza lunch

 

April 3:  International Dance Experience
May 7:   Autism Walk

5. Service-Learning Office Projects
-Seniors to complete hours: The Big 8 (Paxton, Grace H., Luke, Trevor, Max, Brandon, Jacob, Jillian)

- Letter to CPO for electronic equipment for Harper:  YAC wish list  Dylan and Sahanya?

* Letter to Mothers for Audiovisual equipment:  Dylan, Hannah, and Sahanya will update letter status.  Letter should be ready by the end of February.  Mrs. Clay bullet points from her perspective below.

 Writing Points

- Harper is used for many kinds of meetings. The technology requested will help those meetings run more efficiently

- YAC has very little time to do the amazing job they do of getting our teens to be active in the community. To  change the location of meetings in order to view videos and skype or do google hangouts with non-profit organizations takes time and is confusing.  Being able to do everything at Harper without having to request a new will make YAC's job easier and more efficient.

- The overflow of chapel goes to Harper.  If the chapel experiences are videotaped, people in Harper will not only hear it, but will be able to be part of the experience via video screen.

-Weekly agenda's are currently only viewed by officers.  Meetings will be more interactive if the agenda items and reflective pictures could be shared during "real time at meetings."

- Daily announcements and service opportunities will be made available on the screen daily.  It will be a reliable, current account of the service and youth board opportunities available with videos stating the mission, vision , and purpose of the organizations seeking volunteers.

-Presidential Volunteer Service Awards: April 11th
Facilitators of the chapel award delivery:  Miranda, Grace and Cathy?  Will get together during Spring break to finalize details of the award ceremony

 Possible 70 awardees if everyone makes a file at PSA
Guest Speaker: Mr. Josh Bottomly:  Colleges and Teens Giving Back Report.  His personal service-learning experience at Casady with Movies and Literature with a cause
-Tea Time by Sage... after chapel or trancept and during YAC meeting: Hosts and Photographers
Thank you Goodie Bags/Gift/ Chocolate bar???

- National Volunteer April 10,14 
10th: 
11th: President Volunteer Service Awards at Chapel
12th
13th
Global Youth Service Days
14th Service Projects at Boys and Girls Club: Pinwheels, Creative Movement
15th Service Project with a non-profit.  Pinwheels with elderly
16th  Possible Day for Senior Send Off and dinner at Grand House

-Earth Day:  April 22 Cypress Steppe working on a connection with an Eagle Scout Project Planters and the Mansion at the Waterford. There is a planting trees opportunity with Plant trees in Classen Ten Penn Neighborhood.

The event is on Saturday, April 23rd from 8am to 2pm. Volunteers needed from 8am to 10am (assist unloading trees and staging) or 10am to 2pm (form in groups and actually plant trees)

Sign up @: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/snivolunteer

Contact Person:  Barbie Smalley, Community Organizer Neighborhood Alliance, 405.528.6322, 918.850.2932

-Strategic Planning for YAC 2016-2017:  Sign-up  Saturday, April 30, 9:00-noon. Harper  Lunch provided from Hunan. Agenda items: Planning school year 2016-2017.  Creating a description of officers duties, expectations, and ownership in creation of agendas.

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Tis the season for generosity. But how important is it to you to help others? To find out—and get tips for becoming more altruistic—take this quiz, which is based on a scale developed by psychologist Gary S. Nickell of Moorhead State University.

Please answer the below questions as honestly as possible; there are no right or wrong answers. For the first 20 questions, please indicate how much you agree or disagree with each statement.

The last five questions are about you, and they'll be used by our research team to better understand how altruism relates to factors like age and gender. We'll report next month on what the scores suggest about the Greater Good community.

When you're done, you'll get your score, learn more about the benefits of altruism, and find resources for boosting your habits of helping.

TAKE THE QUIZ

Random Acts of Kindness

This practice involves performing five acts of kindness in one day. Is there a day in the next week when you have free time and might be able to do this practice? If so, write it in the space below.

To get ideas for your acts of kindness, it can help to think about times in your past when you've been the recipient of others'  kindness. Take a moment to think about these times, and then list a few of them in the space below. 

It's likely that you have engaged in acts of kindness yourself, perhaps without even being aware of it at the time. Take a moment to think about your own past acts of kindness, and then list a few of them in the space below.

Based on the lists above, list five acts of kindness that you could perform on your Random Acts of Kindness day.

If you're stuck, here is a list of ideas. 

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Put your Random Acts of Kindness day on your calendar and make a note to take care of any advance arrangements that may be needed. 

Although it can help to plan certain acts in advance, allow yourself to also do spontaneous acts if opportunities arise (like witnessing someone in need). And don't forget to write about what you did and how it made you feel.

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