2010-2011+Club

We baked a TON of cookies it was lots of fun!!!! Soccer tournament: get people to sign up, talk about it with your friends Assembly: bribing teachers with cookies and free t-shirt coupons a Ugandan is coming!!!!!!@! THIS TUESDAY!! periods: 2 & 9
 * March 19/30-**

Bribing Fun: making Africa shaped Cookies to give to teachers to give them incentive to come to the assembly free coupon for a shirt if they bring their students Assembly: hang a few posters to give people an idea of what is going on Pencil Project: still collecting! Need to make boxes to put in iHelp, Attendance office, Peterka's room Pencil Project- Collection: Collecting basic pencil sharpeners as well New pencils and sharpeners please! Roadies- Tuesday April 5; optional assembly for teachers. Come up with creative ways to convince teachers to come to the assembly and bring their class Soccer Tournament- Thursday April 7
 * March 23-**
 * March 2-**

Soccer Tournament: Hopefully April 7 or 14 Roadies- Coming April 5 for a presentation Pencil Project- Collecting pencils getting the school involved to help try and collect pencils to send ideas to get the word out: pulse commercial, school wide gaggle, posters, ask your teachers!
 * February 16**-

PETERKA IS ENGAGED!!!!!! __April 5 (8:40-9:40 &12:40-1:30)__ We are getting Roadies!! (with a Ugandan!!!!!!!!) plan is to have an assembly showing a new video called Tony (we watched a preview of it today it looks REALLY REALL good) everyone should wear an Invisible Children shirt or we might make the Red X shirts so that people can tell who is in the club (it will also help out the roadies) Click to view the trailer: [|Tony] __Soccer Tournament__: end of march/april (lots of conflicts going on dealing with scheduling and conflicts) __Bake Sale__: We raised over $120, pretty good turn out! __**Meeting Next Wednesday February 16**__
 * February 10-**

Today we met in groups again and did more work on our different Fundraising idea. COMING SOON: Bake Sale on December 17th (tentative till we get the 'ok' from Mr. Bauer)
 * December 1st-**

Today we got in groups and started working on different fundraising ideas to do throughout the year Check out the Fundraising page to see what we're up to =)
 * November 10-**

First meeting with all grades! Great attendance welcome to the club new members!! What we did: - Introduced everyone to our club wiki and the invisible children website - Talk about what our IC club is doing
 * October 27-**

- Collecting money on Halloween or any other holidays - Soccer Tournament - Battle of the Bands - Student Staff activity - Car Wash - Bake Sale - Displace Me Day (red X day) - Privilege da - Writing letters to businesses or corporations to sponsor our club - Incentive (battle of the grades)
 * Fundraising Ideas:**
 * tell them what IC is and why we want to collect

November 10: Bring a t-shirt and we're going to put a RED X on the shirt We're going to write letters to politicians and other people trying to get the word out about what we're doing and asking for sponsorship and support
 * Next Meeting:**

October 20- Invisible Children Assembly is Monday and Tuesday!! We're going to work in groups to explain to the 9th grade humanities classes: what's going on in Uganda/ Africa Currently -Courtney Smith, Erica Mills, what Invisible Children the organization is and does - Kayla Norton, Yna Aggabao, Emna, what our UMICUP club is =) (thanks lizz: upper merion invisible children under peterka) -Maryam Elarbi, Marni Berk, Sam Paradise,

Maddy Margulies, Ariel Chui will be around helping

October 13- Invisible Children Assembly Coming up within the next 2 weeks Day 2 period 1- movie/ media period 2- club: Start with what is going on in Uganda and East Africa, then talk about the IC organization and what they do, end talking about the UM club and who we are and what we do Day 1 period 1- Ms. Peterka's adventures as well as culture in Africa period 2- Lesson ^^^
 * Students from the club should present and talk about the different topics**
 * Look for an email from Ms. Peterka if you're interested in helping, plus you need to have an idea of what you're going to talk!**
 * there will be a very important meeting for this**


 * September 29-**
 * Ugandan Movie- coming soon**
 * Humanities Assembly**


 * we still aren't sure Roadies are coming
 * There are Ugandans on tour and they are completely over booked
 * Instead: we might run the meeting
 * Ms. Peterka telling about culture and her adventures
 * Club members showing our own mini documentary combining videos of UM and Uganda
 * Still not sure, its alll over the place

Fundraiser Idea: Advertising:
 * Film Festival
 * have students make short 5-6 minute documentary (about a cause?) and show them one night
 * Student Staff (Some sort of sport) Game
 * Sponsoring something at a sporting event 50/50?
 * Change for Change
 * Posters around school
 * Commercial to be aired on Pulse?
 * T-Shirts! (wee neeedddd to seell!

September 15- First Meeting!!!! What did Miss Peterka' do this summer? Check out the IC blog Video from Ugandan students Goals for this first half of the year- Spread the word about the IC Club
 * coming next meeting! Girls from Sacred Heart Secondary School answer questions!
 * Humanities assembly
 * t-shirt day
 * pulse announcements
 * facebook group