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Helping Cancer Patients in Our Community

Hello Spartans! Many of us wonder how it is that we can help the people right in our community. It is a wonderful opportunity to help people that need it the most when you choose this group. Brandon, Dylan, and I (Adam) have decided to help the strongest Spartans in the community to stay strong by raising money to purchase baskets and other goods that the patients at our local Glenbrook Hospital's Kellogg Cancer Center. We want to help them by giving them what they request in their fight to stay strong. Watch the video below to learn more about how you can pave a path of kindness for those in the classes to follow.

Recommendations for doing a Baggo tournament in the future:

-You need to create an interest in the tournament. Create flyers to hand out, posters to put up around the school, and use social media websites to directly contact GBN students. You need to create a buzz around the tournament in order to get people to sign up.

-Create an organized method of signing people up for the tournament. Try contacting someone about using the ticket booth in the SAC to sign up kids during lunch or other free times. You can also directly ask students to sign up by walking around with a signup sheet during any of your free times.

-Have an organized sign up for when students will play. You need to get two teams to agree on one time slot in order to schedule a game. Ask students that sign up what available times they have throughout the day to play. Once you can match them with another team, contact them with the time slot that you will assign them. Assign teams to play each other based on when they are available to play.

-Have students pay ahead of time for the tournament. It may be great if you get someones name down to play, but there’s no guarantee that they will actually show up to play on the tournament date.

-Offer an incentive to get students to play. Try contacting local businesses for donations, things such as gift cards that could be given to the winners of the tournament. Be creative with this and choose an incentive that is appealing to students and will get them motivated to play. After all, this is a tournament and students will be expecting to be able to win something.

With this, keep in mind that it is not as easy as it seems to get students to participate. While many students may like the idea of a baggo tournament, a majority of them will not be willing to give up their free time to participate, or they will not want to pay to play in the tournament. We found it difficult to get students to sign up, even though many thought it sounded like a cool and fun idea. For this reason, we wouldn’t recommend the baggo tournament to you guys. Once we found out that students weren’t actually interested in participating in the tournament, our project started to fall apart. It’s important to choose a project that excites students, and a baggo tournament did not do that.