Kids on Campus Day
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| Every semester, brothers of the Zeta Mu Chapter at Catholic University of America, host a Kids on Campus Day, in which they invite local Brookland area elementary school children to campus for an afternoon of activities and food. These activities include arts and crafts, relay races and sports outside on the Pryz lawn and simple science experiments geared for little kids. The event is held every semester to give CUA students who would not otherwise get the opportunity to interact with these children that chance and the children the opportunity to visit Catholic and have fun with their classmates. |
| Project Title: | Kids on Campus Day |
| Project Date: | 11/10/2007 |
| Contact Name: | Toni Gallo (Send Email) |
| Chapter: | Zeta Mu |
| School: | Catholic University of America |
| Region: | III |
| Section: | 85 |
| Project Type: | National Service Week |
| Area of Service: | Service to the Community |
| Project Location: | Catholic University, Washington DC |
| Project Description: | Day of activities and games for local elementary schoolers |
| Project Results: | It was a success! |
| Preparation Hours: | 50.00 |
| Total Service Hours: | 251.00 |
| Member Participation: | 27 members with 100.00 total service hours. |
| Non-Member Participation: | 20 non-members with 85.00 total service hours. |
| Participation Percentage: | 27 members out of 40 total 67.50% |
| Average Hours Per Member: | 3.70 |
| Outline of Planning Steps: | Zeta Mu started planning Kids on Campus Day is September by brainstorming fun games and activities for the children. We contacted the other APO chapters in Section 85 to work with us as well as other student organizations at CUA. We composed a letter to parents explaining the event and inviting their children to attend, a simple flyer that schools could hang out as well as a permission slip for all children who would attend. We mailed these to local elementary schools and other groups for children as well as distributing copies to the DC Reads tutors to personally invite all their tutees. We requested rooms through the university and then assigned each activity an appropriate space. We created a schedule for the day as a whole – what should happen at what time and who would be in charge of each activity. A few Brothers made phone calls about food donations for the kids. We coordinated with the other groups that had responded to our letters and emails. After finalizing the list of activities, we collected all the supplies we would need. |
| Other Organizations: | Catholic University Lacrosse team - the team ran our sports workshop
DC Reads tutors - invited their tutees to attend by distributing information Cosponsor Name: Meghan McDonogh (lacrosse); Emmjolee Mendoza (DC Reads) |
| Number of Youth Reached: | 25 |
| APO Youth Service Grant Funds Used? | No |
During the execution of the project, what areas/procedures went well?
The projects we planned - Thanksgiving hand turkeys, holiday cards for our troops overseas, rain sticks, face painting and sports - were all very successful and the kids really enjoyed each one.
During the execution of the project, what areas/procedures could have been improved?
Making silly putty had a few glitches to begin with because our recipe was wrong but Brothers quickly worked out the right proportions and the activity ended up being everyone's favorite. The only other area in which I think we could improve is getting more children to show up. We had the Brothers and supplies for many more children to attend than did. In the future we have to work on following up with schools perhaps more so than we did this year and really encouraging parents to bring their children.