FBLA State Competitions

Type: Action and Creativity
Date: February 9, 2016
This last Monday, my FBLA Chapter at Palisade High School attended District 9's Competitions at Colorado Mesa University. We have been actively meeting to prepare each of our individual and team events for the last two months or so. This is all so we can move up and keep competing at State Competitions and finally, to NATIONALS, which this year will be held at Atlanta, Georgia. (I attended last year's Nationals Competitions in Chicago for my Business Plan, which got second place Statewide! It was definitely a great learning experience and so much fun!) This year, I competed in the Economics Test for my individual competition and Social Media Campaign for my team competition (with my friend  and teammate Cheyenne), and received first place for Economics and first place for Social Media Campaign. Ten of us qualified to move on to state, and everyone except one member are going to attend. We are soo excited and ready to represent Palisade! I'm mostly excited for the amount of new members we have this year that I can show how cool our business competition at Vail, CO is. Now our next step is to fundraise money to pay for travel costs. We collected about $150 profit with our Valentine's Day cookie sales, and will keep fundraising by asking local businesses to donate. We are PaliFBLA and State Competitions, here we come!

Robotics Marketing Team Dos Hombres Fundraiser

Robotics Marketing Team Dos Hombres Fundraiser

Type: Service and Creativity

Date: January 27, 2016

This is from a couple weeks back when my robotics team went to the Dos Hombres Give Back Night to kick butt and represent our team to the community. This was obviously a fundraiser experience, but it was the first time the marketing team got to put into action all the helpful marketing advice we received from Ryan Lewis Marketing Solutions. I am the student lead of the marketing team, and in my team we always aim to have fun. This event's challenges were that it required all the standard marketing procedures: I created a Press Release to be sent to the media to invite them to our event and created coupons, Cameryn created an email to send out to all team members and family to invite them to support us, Madi created a background for the Facebook page to advertise and coordinated imagery with Ryan Lewis. Dennis created 3D Printed Pins to give out to donators. And our awesome mentor Catherine prepared the robot to bring to the event and printed out all flyer and coupons to bring to the event. And of course Rosa was there to document the event in-the-moment to Snapchat and Instagram! Team cooperation is super essential and this is what makes it all fun! GO FIRST ROBOTICS! Go Hi Fives!

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: