Minutes of Student Representatives’ Meeting
Columbia Prep School
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
JSA welcomed guest speakers from City Year
- City Year has 240 people in New York ages 17 – 24 who work with students in 20 schools mentoring, tutoring, and being role models for 10 months of a year
- On February 20th there will be a painting project for these public schools
- City Year’s volunteers would come help with the project
- Give JSA volunteers to participate in art projects
- JSA volunteers would be modeling the type of service work that City Year volunteers already participate in
- Browning has offered space for the February 20th JSA-City Year event
Next, the Winter Carnival was discussed
- The event starts at 1pm
- By now each school should know what their booth will be
- Each school should be able to finance the supplies they will need for their booth
- The kids will be at the carnival from 2pm – 3:30pm
- There will be roughly 50 kids attending, ages 7 – 12
- Pizza will be provided for volunteers
- Each booth will need 5 – 8 volunteers at a time
- Schools should try to find volunteers who will stay through to the end
- JSA is looking for two photographers for the event
- It was suggested that maybe t-shirts be given out in the gift bags instead of candy or plastic toys
- It was also suggested that students might want to invite a member of their school’s newspaper to do a write up on the event for good JSA publicity
Other important announcements and developments
- JSA is looking for an MC for the poetry event Independent Voices on April 23, 6-8:30 pm
- JSA is looking for a student(s) with computer skills who would like to work on the online publication of the Independent Voices anthology
- Trinity was recently added to our community of JSA High Schools
The next meeting will be held January 28th at Browning