Go Platinum and Rock Your Community!
It's that time of year again, when members are starting to consider the types of projects that they will do this year. As members there are many different areas that you may wish to compete in. One that you should definitely consider is this year's state community service project called "Rock Your Community". I'm going to challenge chapters this year to complete one project that has to do with the state community service project. This year's state community service project addresses issues in both school and your community. We chose two issues in the school and the community that we wanted to focus on, and encourage you to address by educating, challenging and doing.
School
School Violence
Teen Issues
Community
Elderly Concerns
Internet Safety
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Topic Area: Internet Safety
Bronze: Make a flyer/brochure about making sure that your MySpace or Facebook page doesn’t include too much personal information.
Silver: Sponsor a contest for the best MySpace page in your school - including the suggestions you made.
Gold: Make sure all of your chapter members participate in the contest.
Platinum: Submit the project for the National Stop the Violence Award.
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Topic Area: Teen Issues
Bronze: Launch a campaign to inform peers about the importance of getting enough sleep with flyers & posters that list some negative consequences of not getting enough sleep & tips on finding more time for sleep.
Silver:Declare a "Fight Fatigue" week, challenging students to commit to getting eight hours of sleep per night for the week. Collect reports about how this affected students' abilities to stay alert, maintain energy, & get more done.
Gold:Submit some of the testimonials from your chapter members to be published in the school newspaper.
Platinum: Submit your project for the National Student Body Award.
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To achieve the bronze level, we're challenging you to educate people about one of these issues. This could be as simple as putting flyers up around the community or your school, making announcements over the PA, or even as involved as visiting classes to talk about it, hosting an assembly, or taking part in a community event as a presenter. To achieve the silver level, we're challenging you to both educate and challenge your other people to participate in your project - hosting a contest, doing some sort of a drive where people contribute money or supplies, etc...really challenging them to do something to make change, not just filing it away in their heads for future reference. We're challenging you to go just one step further to achieve the Gold level - educate, challenge, and do a project. That is, not only having other people respond to the challenge you issue for the silver level, but your chapter members as well. Last but not least, we're offering a Platinum level of recognition. For the platinum, we're asking you to take your project just one step further and fill out a recognition form for a National Program and submit it to National FCCLA for recognition.
I know this can be confusing, but hopefully the examples will help you get started. Use your imagination, be creative, and most of all, have fun! Feel free to email me at krader@mifccla.org with any questions, and be sure to check out the website for more ideas at www.mifccla.org!
