Mantley Heights Card Delivery

This last weekend, on Saturday, the group went down to Mantley Heights and delivered Christmas Cards. I personally really enjoyed spreading the Holiday cheer, even if there was a few difficulties that come with trying something for the first time. We delivered about 70 cards to the nursing home, and delivered the remaining twenty to Larchwood so nothing would go to waste. And we met a lot of really cool cats, like this lady who used to work in Disneyland and reminded us that being happy is possible is you just try.
My hopes are that in future visits, we might start to develop a bigger relationship with the ladies and men in the nursing homes so that they may fell that we really are there for them!

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to all,
Andrea.

Holiday Card Worshop

ype: Creativity and Service As well as adding a new member to our group (welcome Birgit!) we've had a great start to our CAS project by making Christmas Cards to give to a nursing home from the Grand Valley. We want to give a huge thanks to Office Max, Office Depot, Target, Michael's and Mrs. Raper for donating a whole bunch of supplies and making this project possible. Thursday of last week my group decided it was time to put our plan into action and Mindy got permission from Mrs. Raper to use the art room the following Monday for our project. Cheyenne and Birgit posted a flyer  for volunteers to join us on social media. Birgit and I were in charge of contacting businesses and asking for donations. Cheyenne was in charge of contacting a nursing home for our project to adopt. And Mindy was in charge of coming up with card designs. We had a successful day of making 60 cards and we plan to get together again and make another 40 the following week. Some strengths of this small section of our project were the enthusiasm it was received with from our sponsors, and the speed in which we were able to plan this Holiday Card Workshop (4 days). Some weaknesses were probably the amount of people we were able to recruit to attend the workshop. For the future, a more effective method of recruiting needs to be stressed. Overall, this is a fun and relatively simple way to share holiday joy with others. To further extend the influence this project will have, we plan on choosing one particular nursing home the project will benefit, and also to plan a holiday activity to share with the people in the nursing homes (carol-singing) comes to mind. We will then give the cards out to our friends at the nursing home at the very end. Here's some pictures of yesterday:

Moving Day!

Type: Action
Had and exciting (but exhausting) day today at the Business Incubator moving all the robotics supplies from our old room to the new one. We separated supplies, boxed and moved them for a solid 4 hours. It was all worth it though, because we got rid of junk that had been accumulating, and now everything is more orderly. We are ready to start the season!!! for more information on the robotics league, please check out : thehifives.co. I'm excited to be in (and maybe lead?) the marketing team, which is probably my strong suit out of the many different positions they offer. Here's a pic I took of the machine shop :) (there's also a design and marketing room, not shown) :

Conquering

Type: Action

This last Friday my FBLA club and I had an adventure climbing up Mount Garfield as a team building experience. Not only did I get to know each of my team members a little bit better, but I got to see my improvement and perseverance in climbing the mountain since the first time I tried it in 8th grade, then this last summer. I was surprised by the kindness that one of my friends showed, and the strength that another showed. Overall, it was a great experience and I would definitely do it again! Team leadership is important, and this definitely helped me improve on that!

Here's a pic:

Starting off

CAS: Creativity, Action, Service Project

Project Leaders: Andrea Chamorro, Cheyenne Bigler, Mindy Mazza

Our mission: Making the days of elderly people in nursing homes around the valley a little brighter by incorporating the company of young people into their lives.

We will be going to assisted living homes on a biweekly basis and visiting seniors, bringing them presents for the holidays, planning enjoyable activities with them, and overall connecting younger generation with older ones, resulting in relationships that are beneficial to both!


Roles:

• Mindy Mazza will be leading a portion of the project that has elementary age kids paint pictures to be made into gift baskets for our elderly friends.
• Cheyenne Bigler will be leading fundraising and awareness campaigns for the organization.
• Andrea Chamorro will be leading the administrative aspect, coordinating events with nursing home administration, etc.

(subject to change)

Immediate goals:

1. Make connections (underway)
2. Contact nursing homes and identify ones with most potential
3. Plan increased membership
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Upcoming Dates:

• Have selected and visited at least one nursing home by October 25, 2015