National Youth Institute---Day 2

In the morning, I went to a conference on writing grants and exchanged some ideas with other youth advisers. One of the better ideas I heard was Tommy the Safety Cat, so we're going to see if the other club members like the idea of teaching the information to students at our local elementary schools. The students went to a workshop on creating and marketing an idea. We had a general afternoon session about writing an action plan, and then spent the rest of the afternoon working in groups to develop a plan. We were one of the only groups that was already an established school club with connections to both school & chapter, so we created a plan for an activity. Many of the other groups seemed to be making plans on how to get more club members. While this is certainly something we need to work on, the decision to find an activity that was recurring and on-going seemed a better to do it, at least for our group. The idea was to have birthday parties for children who are in emergency shelters (not for a disaster). After the workshop was over, there was much discussion and planning on how to handle that evening: there was a strong desire to swim, so we grabbed swim suits, got back over to the conference hotel... and wound up swimming inside because there was another thunderstorm. Then we found dinner, went back to the hotel to eat and change for the dance. The dance was enjoyed by all... especially all of the costumes that people brought with them!!

Pictures of NYI Day 2
Saturday evening, of course, was the dance.