Volunteer Appreciation Week Final Brainstorming

YAC members who attended: Racheal(Will make the invitation to the lunch), Josh, Braeden(facilitated the meeting), Sasha (will be a docent at the Respect Diversity Foundation Exhibit, Tuesday, April 13), Mrs. Clay (Will be a docent at the RDF Exhibit on Good Friday from 3-5 p.m. and Saturday morning with Project Ignition. Mrs. Clay will also volunteer at Thunder game on behalf of Charity Water.)

Items discussed: Water Week Collaboration/Volunteer appreciation week and site visit changes

a. The below Volunteer appreciation week schedule was approved without suggestions or recommendations. The above water week was pinpointed because Challenge 20/20 will be bringing electric cars on Wednesday and YAC will purchase and distribute treats for the Upper Division on behalf of the CPO. Mrs. Jones provided a budget of $400. YAC members are encouraged to participate in Water Week. It is the National Global Youth Service Project for Casady.

b. Next week, YAC facilitators will personally attend site visits to invite community organizations to the YAC appreciation lunch (We have a menu of $10.00 per person, but will be searching for donations this weekend.) The next E-Day A Block, YAC home group facilitators will contact their team members and ask them if they will be committed to participate in the last site visit to arrange site visit and transportation accordinly. A couple of weeks before the site visit, there will be pictures of the site visits at the Student Center to motivate upperclassmen to participate.

Meeting was adjurned so YAC members could support Cassidy Jackson presentation of a new project: Sports Quest. YouTube updated information will be place on the YAC blog when available.

April Home Group Facilitator Evaluation Site Visit Schedule (Facilitators will ask for permission to miss part of recreational sports)
Monday: Braeden Jenkins (Does not have sport commitment: 4:00 p.m. Vineyard
Tuesday: Sasha Bully (will ask permission from recreational sports) 4:00 p.m. Special Care Mrs. Clay also have duty with Water Week Fundraiser at the Thunder Game
Wednesday: Boys and Girls Club, Oklahoma Humane Society, Green Schools...depending on ISAS schedule. If facilitator unable to go, Mrs. Clay will go alone.

Volunteer Appreciation Week Schedule
Monday, April 26: Chapel: Learn and Serve video, No seniors at chapel, AP registration. A and B block: Non-profits at Student Center. Japan Project at Student Center and Peace Education Institute

Tuesday, April 27: Chapel: Senior chapel speech, many sophomores and juniors,not at chapel, registration. A and B block: Non-profits at Student Center, Picassa albums shown at Student Center.

Wednesday, April 28: Chapel: Presidential Volunteer Service Awards: Mr Bright: Goal, Mr. Huestis: Silver, Mr. Pena: Bronze. Facilitating the award ceremony: Braeden, Rose and Sarah. A-Block: CPO treats for Presidential Award Winners (Sam's Cup cakes or something from Super Cao). B-block and lunch: YAC celebration lunch with non-profits. $10 per person, catered by Mike

Thursday, April 29: Chapel: Senior Speech. Non Profits at Student Center.

Friday, April 30: Movie at Student Center or a home with everyone bringing food. How many YAC members are not going to SPC?

Learning and the brain

http://neuroanthropology.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/leslie-cober-gentry-on-teen-brain-in-harvard-magazine-oct-08.png

Aging and teen brains working together: WIN/WIN

NPR’s Full Story: Older brain: http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=124118077&m=124188678
Teen Brain: http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=124119468&m=124188677 Mrs. Clay concluded: Now I have scientific proof why intergenerational projects are win/win opportunities. Our brains complement each other.


The Teen Brain: It is just not all grown up yet:-a crucial part of the brain — the frontal lobes — are not fully connected Scientists used to think teenage brains are just like those of adults — with fewer miles on them. But they're not. Teens' brains are developmentally different. One neurologist mother decided to get to the roots of her son's maddening behavior.

"It's the part of the brain that says: 'Is this a good idea? What is the consequence of this action?' " Jensen says. "It's not that they don't have a frontal lobe. And they can use it. But they're going to access it more slowly." This also may explain why teenagers often seem so maddeningly self-centered. "You think of them as these surly, rude, selfish people," Jensen says. "Well, actually, that's the developmental stage they're at. They aren't yet at that place where they're thinking about — or capable, necessarily, of thinking about the effects of their behavior on other people. That requires insight."


The aging brain: Less Quick, More Shrew: Neuroscientists have found that as we age, our brain's reaction time slows and our ability to multitask diminishes. But maturity also brings an enhanced ability to reason out problems and empathize.

And the middle-aged brain can still strengthen neuron circuits associated with memory and decision-making. As we age, our ability to multi-task diminishes. "We're quick, but we're sloppy when we're in middle-age. We make more errors when we're in middle age," says Small.

Brain researcher Gary Small from UCLA conveys the bad news first: "Reaction time is slower," he says. "It takes us longer to learn new information. Sometimes it takes us longer to retrieve information, so we have that tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon — where you almost have that word or that thought. That's typical of the middle-age brain." He points to a continued improvement in complex reasoning skills as we enter middle age. Small suggests that this increase may be due to a process in the brain called "myelination." Myelin is the insulation wrapped around brain cells that increases their conductivity — the speed with which information travels from brain cell to brain cell. And the myelination doesn't reach its peak until middle age. By this point, says Small, "the neuro-circuits fire more rapidly, as if you're going from dial-up to DSL." Complex reasoning skills improve, and we're able to anticipate problems and reason things out better than when we were young.

And, Small adds, there's another area of improvement as we age: empathy — the ability to understand the emotional point of view of another. Empathy increases as we age. Helpful things: 'Your Brain On Google' Physical Fitness Helps Brain, Too

Next YAC Meeting

Nicole or Braeden run the meeting
Welcome: Snacks distributed
National Volunteer Week is part of Water Week at Casady. STUCO is celebrating Casady student service one day and fundraising for CasadyH2OPE for Charity Water the entire Week. The CasadyH2OPE is the Global Youth Service Day at Casady and probably at Oklahoma City. Mrs. Clay does not know of another inititive yet. Mr. Pena incorporated YAC activities during the STUCO Week and the cars fundraiser will share profits with Water Week.

We have change National Volunteer Week to Water Week. YAC's Week, unless students have another good name will be called Volunteer Appreciation Week.

April 26: YAC video at chapel: Interviews of teachers doing s-l: Mr. Bottomly, Mr. Bush, Miss Bornhoft, Mr. Owens, Mr. Sappington
Maybe YAC celebration lunch...students and non-profit partners this year: Vineyard, Habitat for Humanity, Boys and Girls Club, Special Care, Oklahoma Humane Society, Respect Diversity Foundation, JASO, Go Club, the Turkish House, State Farm, Johnson Elementary, Oklahoma Green Schools Committee, Charity Water

April 28: Presidential Awards at Chapel....Maybe wear your meaningul t-shirt day...YAC interviews on Why was it a memorable service experience? We might ask mothers to consider providing celebratory ice cream for all divisions because everyone volunteers one way or another in Service as a path to peace.


4. Challenge 20/20 Update: What is happening with MD?

5. Invitations:
1. Respect Diversity Foundation Annual Exhibit: Sasha and Mrs. Clay visited last Friday the Roots of Service Quilt part of the exhibit. Science Museum Oklahoma (formerly Omniplex), 2100 N.E. 52nd Street, Oklahoma City, OK, Volunteer docents needed on Tuesday, April 13, 2010, Program: 5:00 p.m. in the Eleanor Maurer Theatre. They will also love to have performers for the program-String Quartet, Exhibit will follow. Sasha reports on visit and emerging project!

2. National Youth Leadership Training, July 18-24th, 2010 in Mound, Minnesota. Students must find a sponsor. Mrs. Clay will be in Peru. We are excited to be able to offer an expanded year-long program, the National Service-Learning Leadership Program, of which NYLT is a core component and initial gathering place for the year. This Program is designed to foster leadership skills among young people who return to their home communities to address issues underlying the achievement gap through service-learning projects. Youth entering grades 9-12 in the fall of 2010 attend the training in teams of 2-3 from a common school or community-based organization. An adult mentor joins the team of youth for the final days of the training and supports them on their projects throughout the year. Please follow this link; www.nylc.org/nylt for more information, a program brochure, and a pre-application. Spaces are limited! Pre-applications are due April 23rd. Please let me know if you have any questions about this opportunity.
Sarah Ullmer, Youth Initiatives Manager, National Youth Leadership Council, Celebrating 25 Years of Service-Learning, PH (651) 999-7361, FX (651) 631-2955
www.nylc.org, "Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it." Brian Tracy

3. Six Billion Paths to Peace: Service as a Path to Peace Retreat in San Francisco, August 13-16. Casady has reserved 3-4 spots for students and one for a teacher from each division. Teachers interested are: UD: Mrs. Clay and Mrs. Johnson; MD: Mrs. Crossno and maybe Mr. Childs, LD: Mrs. France. Other teachers who are interested are Mrs. Morgan and Mrs. Lopez. From the Primary Division maybe Mrs. Chaudry a teacher who has been working with Pennies for Peace and peace education. Participants must cover transportation to and from San Francisco,the registration fee to the Retreat and hotel accomodations before and after the retreat. Stay at Marconi Center, Retreat location and meals are covered by the registration fee, which in the past has been $30 for students and $100 for adults.

NEW BUSINESS
1. We will have FEDEX Time to plan YAC's role for the 2010-2011 School year. The Agenda for FEDEX Time is One B-block and lunch with a specif purpose.




YAC will see Wagner's video in the company of some s-l teachers (Possible attendees will be: Mr. Lucero-just viewing the video, Miss Bornhoft-has had projects in her curriculum, Mrs. Zesiger-has worked with Challenge 20/20 and has attended s-l conference in Long Beach, Mr. Bottomly-Water Project in a social action course) and create a YAC performance rubric for next year. I look forward to the outcome of our FEDEX time ) The focus questions of the meeting will be:
a. How do we evolve "service learning" from 'learning about those being served' to 'servers learning about themselves'?
b. How can we connect our personal ideals, interests and passions to our school work?
c. How is our school work related to change, social justice, and peace?,
d. How can we become resources for social action experiences to peers, faculty, family, and community?

I will use the "free" ALPS learned web http://learnweb.harvard.edu/alps as my collaborative lesson planning tool.

2. This summer my personal and professional goal is attending the Six Billion Paths to Peace retreat because I want to have a focused exploration with a Casady intergenerational team of the following three questions:
a.How does change become peace?
b.How does service shape peace?
c.How do people change through peace?

Project Ignition: March Breakfast Meeting

Heritage Hall made this video of Julia's presentation. Warning: The video is difficult to see and hear

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qidrJBQr04w


Students reflected for hours. Mrs. Clay needs a list to certify those hours. Each student will provide a personal record of service.

Minutes of the meeting and how attended will be sent by Andrew. Mrs. Clay was not able to attend this meeting.

Two more meetings are planned before the end of the year. One of the meetings will be to complete the evaluation from State Farm. William is wanting to schedule a Saturday and lunch meeting. We will call these meetings FEDEX time. We have to have specif goals to accomplis at the end of the meetings


There is a need for

Final YAC March Meeting E-day, A-Block, Service-Learning Office

Participants: Rachael, Nicole, and Elizabeth.

This is one video option for chapel if Josh and Sarah do not have time to finish their video. YAC will rather have a home grown video. YAC students present at the meeting today would like to help making the video, but they need to have greater window of warning. The recommendation today is to look for a weekend in April to work on the video as a group.







A YAC Chair will facilitate: Braeden if available, follow Roberts Rules of Order

WELCOME-Snacks distributed
Report from the Cabinet:
Old Business
Reflection on Lunch Meetings
From Mr. Huestis Speech: The role of YAC will change next year. Promote group projects and become a connection between classroom teachers and community organizations. There will be no Fridays with service-learning. Mrs. Clay will be part of the team teaching study skills. There might not be a need for Home Groups. The rate of attendance has not been great in the last two years. YAC will be able to help with the internship program for sophomores.
From Mr. Pena's Speech: Student Council will approve all projects on campus. They will help large service initiatives like Water project this year. The senior group mentoring freshmen will continue next year. There might not be a need for site visits. The rate of attendance has been declining because of conflict with competitive sports, extra help before finals, and just simply socializing/and/or resting on dead weeks. YAC will be proactive at organizing large scale projects like MLK Day and facilitating the intenrship program for sophomores. YAC will have a new role: Facilitators to classroom social justice connections.
OLD BUSINESS
1. Weekly meetings will resume on A-Block,E-Days, at Service-Learning office. Snacks provided.
2. No more Home Group meetings the first E-Day of the month, but facilitators will meet with their groups after chapel to inform about May site visits.
3. May site visits will be opened to anyone who wishes to attend, first come, first served. We will have sign-up sheets the week before.


New Business
1. When should National Volunteer Week be celebrated at Casady and how?
When? National Volunteer Week conflicts with STUCO Crazy Fun Week/Water Week. It is also at the same time as Earth Day. Water Week T-shirt will be Earth Day t-shirt.
NEW Tentative Schedule for Chapel. The Japan Project students from UCO are willing to provide activities one day during A or B blocks that week.

April 26: YAC video at chapel: Interviews of teachers doing s-l: Mr. Bottomly, Mr. Bush, Miss Bornhoft, Mr. Owens, Mr. Sappington
April 28: Presidential Awards at Chapel....Maybe wear your meaningul t-shirt day...YAC interviews on Why was it a memorable service experience? We might ask mothers to consider providing celebratory ice cream for all divisions because everyone volunteers one way or another in Service as a path to peace.
April 30: Inspirational Speaker: Maybe the OCU Service-Learning Director...Maybe YAC celebration lunch...students and non-profit partners this year: Vineyard, Habitat for Humanity, Boys and Girls Club, Special Care, Oklahoma Humane Society, Respect Diversity Foundation, JASO, Go Club, the Turkish House, State Farm, Johnson Elementary, Oklahoma Green Schools Committee, Charity Water


2. What to do for Global Youth Service Day: Too many conflicts...WATER WEEK could be the CASADY GLOBAL YOUTH SERVICE DAY INITIATIVE. Nicole will take that idea to STUCO. Other opportunities to serve as a group: Volunteer at the Arts Festival. Children Activity Field needs 60 volunteers on Saturday and 60 volunteers on Sunday. Mrs. Clay is the day chair on Sunday. Art activities are very simple and directed to younger children. The Oklahoma Memorial Marathon is also that Sunday. Volunteers are needed in different venues and we will be working for PEACE around the world.

3. Project Ignition Update: Andrew

4. Challenge 20/20 Update: What is happening with MD?

5. Invitations:

1. Respect Diversity Foundation Annual Exhibit: Sasha and Mrs. Clay will be docents this Friday at the Roots of Service Quilt part of the exhibit. Science Museum Oklahoma (formerly Omniplex), 2100 N.E. 52nd Street, Oklahoma City, OK, Volunteer docents needed on Tuesday, April 13, 2010, Program: 5:00 p.m. in the Eleanor Maurer Theatre. They will also love to have performers for the program-String Quartet, Exhibit will follow


2. National Youth Leadership Training, July 18-24th, 2010 in Mound, Minnesota. Students must find a sponsor. Mrs. Clay will be in Peru. We are excited to be able to offer an expanded year-long program, the National Service-Learning Leadership Program, of which NYLT is a core component and initial gathering place for the year. This Program is designed to foster leadership skills among young people who return to their home communities to address issues underlying the achievement gap through service-learning projects. Youth entering grades 9-12 in the fall of 2010 attend the training in teams of 2-3 from a common school or community-based organization. An adult mentor joins the team of youth for the final days of the training and supports them on their projects throughout the year. Please follow this link; www.nylc.org/nylt for more information, a program brochure, and a pre-application. Spaces are limited! Pre-applications are due April 23rd. Please let me know if you have any questions about this opportunity.
Sarah Ullmer, Youth Initiatives Manager, National Youth Leadership Council, Celebrating 25 Years of Service-Learning, PH (651) 999-7361, FX (651) 631-2955
www.nylc.org, "Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it." Brian Tracy

3. Six Billion Paths to Peace: Service as a Path to Peace Retreat in San Francisco, August 13-16. Casady has reserved 3-4 spots for students and one for a teacher from each division. Teachers interested are: UD: Mrs. Clay and Mrs. Johnson; MD: Mrs. Crossno and maybe Mr. Childs, LD: Mrs. France. Other teachers who are interested are Mrs. Morgan and Mrs. Lopez. From the Primary Division maybe Mrs. Chaudry a teacher who has been working with Pennies for Peace and peace education. Participants must cover transportation to and from San Francisco,the registration fee to the Retreat and hotel accomodations before and after the retreat. Stay at Marconi Center, Retreat location and meals are covered by the registration fee, which in the past has been $30 for students and $100 for adults.

MARCH 2010 YAC ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS

Tuesday BYOL lunch at student center YAC meeting agenda

Braeden Jenkins facilitated the meeting
Attendance: Braeden Jenkins, Elizabeth Nordin, Nicole Lardner, Caitlin Anderson, Andrew Young, Johnesha Hawkins, Sasha Bully, Josh Ou, Vincent Peng, Khadija Hamid, Deric Corn, Sara Cox, Zainab Shakir
1. Speaker: Mr Pena:
Topic: Process for project approval and fundraisers for rest of the year: Have bigger project with greater collaborations like the Habitat Project this year. Approval of fundraisers and projects on campus must be approved by the Student Council. Meetings are opened to all students.
YAC representative to Student Council: Nicole...She will take the offer of making WATER WEEK the Global Youth Service Initiative for Casady School. Mrs. Clay talked to Caitlin and she welcomed the idea. Caitlin said that she will sent Mrs. Clay the schedule for Water Week. YAC will not create any more activities for that week, we will join WATER WEEK efforts.

2. Reports from Cabinet: Josh said that Challenge 20/20 is ongoing and requested funding from Service-Learning for the final tools of his tool kit. Mrs. Clay requested from Josh and Vincent an account of where the money raised at Fall Fest and water bottles (if any profit) went. Mrs. Clay stated that Service-Learning has been paying for other projects and needs left over money for the conference in New York.

3. Old Business
a. When should we meet? Breakfast meetings: Not working, E-Day meetings: Poorly attended, conflict with debate Club. Students in Debate Club will continue attending debate club and can get information of minutes from this blog. Meeting will resume on E-Days, A-block. Mr. Pena will prefer no more lunch meetings.

b. What to do with Home Groups and April Site Visits: Home Groups: Do we continue them?- We will not continue Home Groups. Facilitators can meet with them at their discretion to provide information about site visits.

April Site Visits: Should we have them?- Up to the discretion of the facilitator. Nicole brought the "student athlete perspective." It is hard to choose, but a sports minded person will always choose pre-season practice to service site visits. There is also conflict with play productions after SPC Weeks.

Casady YAC blog making money with google? Braeden asked students to visit the blog because YAC makes money when students read it...Goggle has advertising in our blog now!

Brainstorming Volunteer Week

When? What? Who? Where? Why? and HOW?

Asia Connection Club Activity at Multicultural Week

YAC senior chair, Rose Dubiskas contacted the Japan America Society and the Go Club of Oklahoma City. JASO taught Origami and the connections of Origami to Chinese acupunture. While teaching one of Mrs. Jew's Chinese classes, the origami presentation had a guest speaker, Mr. Lucero, who provided the following connection of origami.

Project Ignition-Julia's OKC Stay

How did Project Ignition meet Julia Sewell? Students met Julia Sewell at the National Service Learning Conference in Nashville. As part of Project Ignition Grant, under the leadership of Casady's Andrew Young and Heritage's William Clements; Project Ignition students decided to provide an inspirational speaker on leadership and teen driver safety before the Winter Ball and the Heritage Pep Club. Before the visit, students sold Project Ignition T-shirts, and created an awareness game with impaired goggles.


THURSDAY AND FRIDAY:


Julia arrived at 11:41 p.m. Garner Gentry and William Clements picked her up. A basket of goodies from both school awaited at her room at the Casady wing.

7:00 a.m. Breakfast at Jimmy's Egg. Gardner, Andrew, and Molly and two Heritage students welcomed Julia and shared her introduction to Casady;s Chapel as well as developed the strategy of when to provide the gifts given to project ingnition by Ada High School at the end of the year last year.

8:00 a.m. Chapel talk. Introduction by Andrew, DJ, Reshwan, and Molly. Before chapel, YAC students distributed gifts from Ada, High School. Julia opened with an inspiration poem and closed with information about project ignition, Students comments throughout the day way, " Thank you Julia, good speech. You woke me up. It was the best part of my day."

10: 10 a.m. Assembly at Heritage Hall. Opening was the same as Casady's. Then she followed with an interactive action and closed with another inspirational poem. The whole presentation will be in YOUTUBE soon. Project Ignition kids from HH filmed it. Mr. Cassell said,"it was different, but very effective."

12:00 a.m. B-Block and luch at Johnnies. Mrs. Clay and Garner drivers. Mr. Porter and mr. Cassell joined. All project Ignition (Gardner, Molly, Andrew, D.J. Reshwan, Alizay) from Casady and some YAC students (Josh) joined. William, Parker, Rachel, Nautica and Ashley came from HH. The conversation was a reflection of Julia's presentations. Mrs. Clay was amazed at the personal sharing that took placed at HH's assembly.


1:20 p.m. Return to Casady. Julia visited Dr. Powell's, Mr. Zeibell, Mr. Kelly, and Mr. Wiley's classes.

3:45 p.m. Musicians Inc at Johnson elementary was cancelled. Julia had a tour of the city with William Clements

5:30 p.m. Dinner at Oklahoma County Line with William and Mrs. Clay. Julia spoke about her experience with State's Farm YAB and encouraged students from both schools to participate in an experience that if selected could change their lives. She also shared that she will be speaking at the National Service Learning Conference in San Jose.

SATURDAY:
10:00 a.m. Cowboy Hall of Fame and Memorial Museum. William and Gardner took Julia to visit this museum.


12:00 Lunch at DOT WO in Edmond(33rd and Broadway) Julia shared with Garner and William the advantages of participating in a National Youth Advisory Board. She was part of the second year of the State Farm Youth Advisory Board (YAB)http://www.statefarmyab.com/, an experience that changed her life.

1:00: Omniplex-Meeting with Respect Diversity Foundation CEO, Joan Kornblit: Garner, William and Rachel were invited by Mrs. Korenblit to a preview of the Respect Diversity Foundation Annual Exhibit at the Science Museum. Julia will reproduced some of the art pieces in Minneapolis. Sarah's "Beauty of Diversity" will have a special space on the exhibit,which this year focuses on PEACE

2:00: Oklahoma Memorial Site and Museum

6:00 Dinner at Chelinos with Andrew, Casady Project Ignition leader. Julia and Andrew brainstorm next steps and how Julia can be a resource for future Project Ignition initiatives. Julia also encouraged Andrew to consider participating in the NYLC leadership conference during the summer. Julia will connect the service-learning office at Casady to possible funding for students to attend the leadership camp. Julia also spoke about the NYLC YAB as an organization Casady YAC students may want to apply while in high school or college. The main activity of this youth council is to organize the yearly NYLC conference.

9:00 Julia attended HH Pep Club dance and Winter Ball at Casady.

For more information about Project Ignition contact William(990-8536)(CHPI@LIVE.COM) or Andrew

T-Shirts Available until MAY!!!!!!!! (CONTACT WILLIAM CLEMENTS)

YAC Re-organizational Lunch

Present at lunch: Andrew Young, Johnesha Hawkins, Sasha Bully, Vincent Peng, Rose Dubiskas, Christi Gentry, Sarah Cox, Josh Ou, Caitlin Anderson, Byron Holzberger, Tony Analla, Khadija Hamid, D.J. Wood, Braeden Jenkins, Eihab Khan, Nicole Lardner, Elizabeth Nordin, Chandler Helms, Alizay Paracha. Mrs. Clay, Mr. Huestis.

Braeden Jenkins facilitated the meeting and followed Roberts Rules of order. Mr. Huestis presentation and Q/A session took the whole lunch hour. Tony acted as secretary. See notes below. We requested and were granted 3 lunches until we finished our re-organization. YAC members will bring their own lunch next week. We will covered all items tabled

1. Mr. Huestis speaks to YAC: What will be the role of YAC next year?
"The role of YAC won't change dramatically, but the purpose will change. If members want to take on personal projects you may. We are going to add a layer of responsibility to the YAC group. We want a lot of focus on a couple of projects: Habitat for Humanity and the Food Bank. We might even have events each weekend that are Casady related. One of our goals is to build a home from start to finish. Building a home from start to finish requires a lot of sweat and work. It is a tremendous thing to work hard and hand the keys to someone who could never afford a home on their own. We also want to help the food bank even though the food bank has less clarity at this point. Another issue we have is making sure we don't take on too many projects at once. In one situation there were three projects in one day . Your role is to help organize the build of a home and organize the student hours. We need to plan for the building day during the week. The food bank is an idea that requires a lot of organization. With the food bank we don't want to send 50 people when there is only enough work for 20 people. The YAC members will have a great amount of leadership experience.
Do you think we could organize Friday activities instead of Saturday?
"That's a good idea and we aren't sure. That might work out better for some and for those who can't make it they can take on individual projects and things like that."

Will we have home groups? Open to suggestions after careful reflection of the reality we are facing.

Will there be site visit? Maybe not needed if ongoing service opportunities scheduled on Fridays.

TABLED FOR SECOND LUNCH MEETING
2. Reports from Cabinet: Call on chairs and cabinet members to state if they have something to report or update

3. Old Business
1. When should we meet? Breakfast meetings: Not working, E-Day meetings: Poorly attended, conflict with debate Club
2. What to do with Home Groups and April Site Visits: Home Groups: Do we continue them? April Site Visits: Should we have them?

New Business
1. Project Ignition Update: Andrew
a. Thursday: Arrival at 11:00 p.m. Stay at Casady Wing. Gift baskets from Casady and HH courtesy of both schools.
b. Friday:
7:00 a.m. Breakfast at Jimmy's Egg. Everyone welcome. You must pay for your own breakfast. Mr. Cassell will join the breakfast
8:00 a.m. Chapel talk. Introduction by Andrew connecting to Multicultural Week.
10: 00 a.m. Assembly at Heritage Hall
12:00 a.m. B-Block and luch at Johnnies. Mrs. Clay and Garder drivers. Mr. Porter will join the lunch
1:20 p.m. Return to Casady. Stay with teachers, rest, be with Mrs. Clay
3:45 p.m. Attendance to Musicians Inc
4:30 p.m. Sightseeing OKC with William- Bricktown
5:30 p.m. Dinner at OKlahoma City Museum of Art with Project Ignition and YAC

Saturday: 10:00 a.m. brunch at local restaurant YAC members welcome to join. Contact Mrs. Clay (520-1325) or William(990-8536) to see where Julia is when your schedule permits you to join the group: 520-1325
Plans: Cowboy Hall of Fame and Memorial Museum. Talking about leadership and service...planning end of the year strategies for Project Ignition and brainstorming next year's possibilities.
Lunch at Chinese place in Edmond
Dinner at Oklahoma County Line maybe...TBD
Julia invited to attend the Winter Ball at Casady and the dance at HH.

2. When should National Volunteer Week be celebrated at Casady and how?
When? Conflicts with STUCO Crazy Fun Week. It is also at the same time as Earth Day. Josh needs help with creation of t-shirt for earth day.
How? Chapel presentation of awards. Chapel presentation of video. Favorite place you volunteer. YAC T-shirt day??? Ice cream day in collaboration with CPO.
Who will do what?

3. What to do for Global Youth Service Day: Too many conflicts...final project: Volunteer at the Arts Festival. Children Activity Field needs 60 volunteers on Saturday and 60 volunteers on Sunday. Mrs. Clay is the day chair on Sunday. Art activities are very simple and directed to younger children.

4. Challenge 20/20 Update: What is happening with MD?

5. Casady YAC blog making money with google?

Project Ignition: Breakfast Meeting: Final details

Mr. Cassell, HH Principal will host the breakfast meeting at 7:00 a.m. at Casady School Service-Learning Office.

Our guest speaker, Julia Sewell arrives Thursday at midnight and leaves early Sunday morning.

Casady is having: Awareness of Teen driving safety today with brochures and a game. The game will leave Casady Thursday to be placed at HH for their assembly.

Itinerary for Julia
Thursday, March 311:41 p.m. Julia arrives. Mrs. Clay , Garner, and William greet her at airport. Mrs Clay is also meeting her husband who returns from Bangladesh

Friday March 4
8:00 a.m. Chapel speech at Casady UD
10:00 a.m. Assembly at HH UD
11:00 a.m. Lunch at Johnnies: Expected attendance from Casady: Molly, Andrew, Gardner, D.J. and Reshwan
1:00 p.m. Return to Casady. Rest or attend classes--tour of the school
4:00 p.m Tour of Oklahoma City. Dinner at the Art Museum
10:00 p.m. Return to Casady

Saturday, March 5
Julia with Project Ignition students