Book Buddies is a program in which older kids read to younger kids, to help them develop their reading skills, vocabulary, and comprehension skills. Another thing in which the book buddies program helps the younger kids improve are their social skills. They learn how to interact with kids older than them and also they find a mentor in their book buddy.
Our leadership project was to help market this project; to have more students older and younger join in the program. As well we tried to market to the community to inform them about what book buddies really is and does.
For more information contact your local libraries on how you can get involved.
Have a passion but still need a way to make money? I was stuck in that exact situation, and wanted to find a way out. So I combined the two! I wanted to do podcasting, so I worked on a way to find advertising for my podcast that is going to start in the summer. I talked to a couple businesses and found some local interest. I can't wait until this all gets going!
Our goal was to increase Market Day sales and help DECA with their Market Day business. The first thing we did was gathered information from Mrs. Ingersoll, Mr. Rast, Mrs. Moon and Market Day Chairweb. After we learned their needs, we began to market Market Day. We hope that whom ever takes over Market Day next year can really making an impact and begin to drive more sales and continue to create more revenue. Enjoy!
We support Special Olympics, an organization for special needs teens to participate in recreational activities and sports. Though it is a national organization, there is actually a local team with students from our high school. We wanted to support this group because it is an amazing organization that needs more acknowledgement and support. We hope that you are as passionate as we were, good luck!!!
We are trying to collect supplies and books to help the classes at Glenwood Elementary. To do this we have contacted the Northbrook Public Library to donate books and we have set boxes around the school for people to donate new or gently used supplies. We have been successful in collecting books and are expecting supplies in the next two weeks. We hope someone will carry on this impactful project in the following years. Check out our video for more information!
This project made us come together and try to raise money for Glenwood Elementary. What we tried to do was host a basketball tournament to raise money for sporting equipment for the school.
Unfortunately, the event didn't work out as planned. Some things went wrong like the timing of the event. We wanted to hold it on the weekend of Memorial Day and it didn't work out because a lot of families were out of town and there were other tournaments going on already and kids just weren't interested.
Some words of advise I would give you would be to be more task oriented... split the project up into parts and assign work to everyone so not one or two people are stuck with all of the work. Also make some more concrete goals!!!!!
Success means a lot of things. I think the biggest way I can define success is if in the end you learn something because if you don't what's the point to try to achieve if you don't learn.
In a time when our country's unemployment rate is on the rise and Americans are still struggling to find jobs, we knew that the best way to help out the country was to do what even the government can't do properly: create jobs. With our website, we're not only improving the welfare of students at GBN and giving them opportunities that open doors and deter them from getting involved in illicit activities, but we're also giving back to our community and more importantly our country.
We created a website where teens can go to see the companies that are hiring in the area so they can get a job. The site is constantly being updated so that students don't get denied a position when they call or send applications simply because the position is filled. It improves the efficiency of the system and makes students aware of job openings that they may otherwise not known about.
We admit that our site is in its infancy. Our hope is that others in the future realize the potential of this program and expand on it to help solve an immense and pressing problem at a local level. We started something that should be integrated into the school website and leave a legacy that lasts for future generations to come.
