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!

Meeting Recap- November 30th 2010

We had a very discussion filled meeting this week which was great! This week we confirmed some more details about the surprise Ice Cream
Party for Mrs Blacks class who has won the Penny Drive. We want to keep it a surprise so remember to check your Youth in Action Minutes emails from Michelle. Today was our Holiday sale and a BIG BIG thank you to all those who helped out -Karan, Jae, Mark, Raman, Uddip, Michelle, Devyani, Simran, Surbhi, Din, Prabjaap, Riana, Rochelle, Candy, Priya, Jasjit, Brandon, Aaron, David, Julie, Michelle, Krisin, Bajro, Ana Giulia, Vijayita, Mishal and Shipra.

We revealed the Pepsi Refresh trailer so remember to CHECK IT OUT here!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMVjcLjnObM
We will know in one months time whether our application has been accepted so keep those fingers crossed!

We are also having a fun filled Youth in Action PARRTAAY to celebrate before the holidays! It will be a Potluck! (e-mail/tell Michelle in person what you would like to bring in)

*remember to NOT bring in something with mangoes! We have a person with a severe mango allergy!

So far the people who have decided to bring in food are:

·         Julia – chips

·         Amy – pop

·         Din – another drink

·         Sejal – chips

·         David – fried rice?

·         Ana  

·         Steph

·         Jack – drinks

·         Mishal – popcorn

·         Brandon  

·         Sumaiya

·         Vijayita

·         Tarheen – cinnamon rolls

Can some people bring in anything besides drinks, chips and rice?

-          2:50 – 3:30 PM: Food & Games :)

-          3:30 Onwards: Watching a Movie (Expect to stay until around 6:00PM – 6:30PM)

Unless you HAVE TO leave we encourage you to stay throughout the entire event! We promise you that it will be loads of fun!

Mrs Hyrsko brought up a great opportunity for some members to join the Executives for a Me-We event. We had 3 spots and our lucky members coming are Bo Chen, Simran, and Din. Make sure you guys check your schedules to see if you are free on December 13^th and be aware of the fact that there will be 2 other days that you will have to attend this conference. Congrats!

Other YIA members on the list in case someone backs out: Giulia, Sejal, Steph, Amy, Riana, Priya, Devyani.

Another YIA fundraiser COMING SOON (possibly for Valentine’s Day) – Ideas:

-          Candy grams

-          Hersheys

-          Specialized Bake Sale

-          Roses/Flowers (delivery?)

-          YIA Dance? – semi-formal, MuchMusic DJ? Needs to be approved by Mr. Heffernan

-          Semi-formal dinner – costs a lot of money and need to collaborate with Food school

-          Link Crew type movie night for Valentine’s Day – movie: Valentine’s Day? The Notebook? Dear John? Etc.

If you have any other ideas, PLEASE share them with us (no matter how bizarre they are!) Email michelle or the Youth in Action email yia.rbhs@gmail.com 

 See you all next week :)

Meeting Recap -November 23 2010

Here is what went down this meeting! WE HAVE CONCLUDED OUR PENNY DRIVE, a big thank you to all those collectors and counters and people who donated! The winning class is Mrs Black's Grade 10 Class. We are planning a big surprise party for them so we won't disclose any information here, but please check your email for an email from Michelle regarding the Party

We also started and finished taping scenes for our Pepsi Refresh Video! We are applying for a $5000 grant to help pay for the Youth in Action Run called “Run around the Globe” coming up shortly. We hope this run will not only inspire youth to take initiative but to inspire the community in coming out and joining a great cause. We are hoping to use the money to support local school groups run by our charity Free the Children. The video will be revealed next meeting! Cross your fingers and let's hope that on Dec 1 Pepsi accepts our application :) Visit this page for more information.

The Holiday Sale is coming up Wednesday Deccember 1 and we have a stand for wrapping gifts all day long.

Holiday Sale Helpers:

*consists of gift wrappers and deliverers

Period 1 – Karan, Uddip, Mark, Raman, Jae

Period 2 – Sana, Michelle Nguyen, Devyani, Mary, Surbhi, Din

Period 3 – Prabhjaap, Riana (first half only), Rochelle, Candy, Priya, Jasjit

Period 4 – Brandon, Aaron, David, Bajro, Michelle Huh, Krisin

Period 5 – Ana, Giulia, Vijayita

Also next tuesday we are having a bake sale!

Bakers:

• Jenny
• Sana
• Holly
• Ana
• Vijayita

Sellers:

• Period 3 – First Half – Prabhjaap and Maggie
• Period 3 – Second Half – Candy and Rochelle
• Period 4 – First Half – Eunice and Julia
• Period 4 – Second Half – Holly and Ana

Finally before the long and well deserved Christmas Holidays we are planning a POTLUCK/YIA PARTY!! We are going to talk about details next meeting but just remember not to bring anything with mangoes due to allergies

See you next week November 30 2010

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