Recap- March 22nd, 2011

This year we are having a “Semi-Formal” Dance and Youth in Action hopes to put up a picture booth! The booth will have differnent backdrops and cool props. Pictures will cost around $1 and will be printed and handed out to the participants.This will
happen on April 7th 2011 during the Dance.

Ideas:  

 · Floral/ Carpentry – white backdrop, fake + real flowers,  

 · Arch with “Just Married” & “Semi Formal 2011” sign (Cindy's in charge) 

We also discussed having a Youth in Action Cooking Day! We plan to cook cupcakes and then have a MASSIVE bake sale and we will distribute jobs and such next week. See you all Next Tuesday! 

Just a reminder, our 10 Free The Children Confrence members who went to the Workshop at Nelson 2 months back will be going to their second confrence on April 21 2011

Meeting Recap – March 1rst 2011

The voting for the $5k Grant is officialy over!

We ended the competiton in 15th place. Although we did not recieive the money, we all wanted to give a big and warm thank you to everyone for participating and helping us out. Its great to know that our
community is with us!  

Again, we are putting on our always effective and fun Bake Sale on TUESDAY March 1, 2011. 

Thank you to our lovely bakers: 

 -tarheen 

 -somaya 

 -prabjhab 

 -bajro 

And here is the selling schedule: 

 PERIOD 3 

-rabaina and yasmin(1st) 

 -shawn and vidu(2nd) 

 PERIOD 4 

 -sydney and michelle(1st) 

 -jenny and farwa(2nd)

 If you remember we discussed selling Hot Chocolate but that did not go through due to some problems but no worries, we will re-arrange that even in the near future. 

Recap- February 8th, 2011

Hey everyone! We really need to keep up voting as our position is shifting and moving a lot! Lets get up there members! We are going to have a valentines BAKE SALE so here are our bakers:


1. Simran 

2. Sumaiyah 

3. Mishal 

4. Michelle

5. Krisin 

6. Sana 

7. Jenny 

Sellers: 

Period 2: Sana 

Period 3 1st half: Rochelle, Candy, Dexter 

Period 3 2nd half: Yasmeen, Rubaina 

Period 4 1st half: Din, Surbhi 

Period 4 2nd: Farwa, Mishal

 *Please arrive on time!

A great idea came to us was called “Voting for Lollipops”, where we get people to vote and in return, they get a lollipop so here is the schedule: 

Monday (Feb 14): 

Period 4 1st half: Michelle, Krisin, Stephanie, Jenny, Shipra 

Period 4 2nd half: Bajro, Danton, Aaron, David

Period 5: Bochen, Amy 

Tuesday & Wednesday (Feb 15 & 16): 

Period 2: Sana, Simran, Vijayita 

Period 3: Prabhjaap, Maggie 

Period 4 1st half: Michelle, Krisin, Stephanie

Period 4 2nd half: Bajro, Danton, Aaron, David 

Period 5: Bochen, Amy 

Thursday & Friday (Feb 17 & 18): 

Period 2: Sana, Simran, Vijayita 

Period 3: Candy, Sally, Brad 

Period 4 1st half: Michelle, Krisin, Stephanie 

Period 4 2nd half: Bajro, Danton, Aaron, David 

P5: Bochen, Amy

 Aside from voting, we came up with some future initiatives to undertake in March    

 · Samosa sale 

· YIA Group Cooking Day? 

· Taking & selling pictures at Bateman’s semi-formal dance in March (photo booth/polaroid camera) 

· Selling ice cream in the foyer

In the coming days, there will be a Free the Children’s Workshop at RBHS (limited to 10 YIA students) and if you are interested please email Michelle. 

Students who are interested in attending so far:

1. Rubaina
2. Yasmeen
3. Prabhjaap

If you are interested, please e-mail me. We are giving priority to students in grades 9 and 10 but if you are a senior student and are interested in attending this workshop, do not hesitate to ask!

Meeting Recap- February 1 2011

The voting process has begun! Here are some ideas on we plan to increase voting!

· Change Bateman’s internet homepage to the Pepsi Refresh voting page
· Have one full day that is dedicated to solely VOTING
· Invite classes down one by one to the library to have a mass voting session
· Ask all the teachers of Computer Lab classes to get their students to vote at the beginning of class everyday (if not, every few days until Feb 28th)


Also we plan on advertising in school:
Class advertisers during period 1 (Thursday February 3rd, 2011):
· Jenny (upstairs languages hallway + second half of middle hallway)
· Karan (upstairs math/science hallway + first half of middle hallway)
· Amy (downstairs Phys Ed + Arts Hallway, French Hallway, The Centre) 
· Brandon Phillips (Tech Hallway, Computer Labs, Cosmo Room, Cooking Class, Gym/Weightlifting)
- These classroom visits will be weekly! Be prepared to volunteer next time!
- Announcements on the P
- Bochen is writing up an advertisement for the Burlington Post! Thanks Bochen! 
- POSTERS!

Thank you to everyone who came out today and made posters, they are really helping us and we are going to need to put up the posters that Sana made as well! 
http://www.refresheverything.ca/runaroundtheglobe

New Year, New Goal: Pepsi Refresh

Welcome back everyone from your holidays, we all hope you enjoyed and slept as much as you could. An exciting event took place over the break which was *drumroll* PEPSI REFRESH! If you recall, we made a video/trailer that we planned to send with our pepsi refresh application and we got accepted. For what? Well, we applied to win a $5000 grant from Pepsi Refresh, our goal being, to be able to organize our Run called Run Around the Globe which we plan to do shortly. The money we get from this run will go toward Local School Programs run by our chosen charity Free the Children.

Now that our application is up on their website, the VOTING begins. All you need to do:
1)Visit the profile once a day till Feb 28
2)Sign up VERY quickly 
3)Vote for us
You only have 1 vote per idea per day so use them wisely ;)

Please promote this to all your friends and family, we can do this! Remember this is a community event so not just our school gets involved but a LOT of people do! Let them know.

If you have facebook join our campaign
1) Change your profile picture to our Run Logo (below)
2) Update your status and provide this link:
http://www.refresheverything.ca/runaroundtheglobe
3) Visit the facebook LIKE page and share that with your friends
4) Update any other blogs/twitter you have and let your followers know
5) Spread around our campaign poster(below)

Well on our first meeting back we opened with this great news! Also we started our "current events" when we talk about some events going on right now. For our first current events chat, we played "Issue Bus". We all hope on an imaginary bus and sing along until we reach our "issue". Then 2 ideas are brought out and each person on the bus chooses a side, there is not judging but it's just fun. Then we all discuss our ideas about why we chose which side, this game brought out a lot of new ideas and taught us all things we didn't know. This game was picked up from the Me-We confrence some members attended.

Great meeting back and GOOD LUCK BATEMAN!

A December to Remember!

Well what a fantastic month we had this December! Our penny drive came to an official close in November with a grand total of $1200. Great job everyone and thank you for helping out! Of course, our winning class celebrated with ice cream, hula skirts, sprinkles and music! Thank you to all who helped out with their serving and waiter-ing skills. It was a ton of fun!

Our meetings consisted of figuring out the planning for the party and we started to play some fun ice breaker games. Our last meeting of December was on the 14 due to the winter break. So we ended the year with a BANG and celebrated with lots of yummy food, chit chatting and watching a movie.

A big thanks to all our active members for making this year truly great! We hope to see you all in the next year, we've got big dreams and a lot to do so rest up and enjoy your holidays! A happy new year from the exec team and see you on Jan 4 :)

Youth in Action: Working Towards Change

Education. Empowerment. Inspiration. & Leadership.
There are a few of the many initiatives and ideas we would like to raise awarness about as Youth in Action. We created this video to inform everyone what Youth in Action is about and what we plan to do in the near future! We are also using this video as a promotional video as we enter the Pepsi Refresh Contest to win 5K to help aid the funding of our run
Enjoy


We will let you know if our application gets accepted and when voting starts :)
Thanks for watching!