Recap- February 8th, 2011

Posted by Youth in Action Team at 12:51 PM on 09 February 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

Posted by Youth in Action Team at 12:48 PM on 02 February 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!