<p>Attention all of you CC over-achievers! With the coming of a new year comes a new season of Beta Club projects at my school, and since I’m the person in charge, I have to come up with the ideas. Alas, I have none. Would anyone please bestow upon me a share of knowledge concerning what projects to pursue and even how to find projects to pursue?</p>
<p>why the **** are you in charge</p>
<p>Indeed! I second that, fae!</p>
<p>Anyway, sorry to be judgmental, svrone. Here’s an idea that’s really fun if you have class rivalry at your high school. Pick a charitable organization in your area (Food Bank, etc.) Have a fundraiser with a twist:
- Make 4 collection bins/containers, one for each grade level. Put them all next to each other.</p>
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<li><p>Tell each grade to put the donations into their bins (cans if it’s the Food Bank, $ if it’s for money donations. $ works better in this contest.)</p></li>
<li><p>The twist: Each donation is worth a certain number of points for the grade. Change is worth its monetary value – that many points (for Food Bank, small cans of relatively cheaper, less-needed food are worth .25 or .10 or .05 points). But bills (1, 5, 20, or expensive cans of good food like meat or baby formula) deduct points. So if a grade brought in 500 pennies, they’d have 5 points. But here’s the awesome part. Encourage every grade to sabotage the other grades by putting bills/big cans into their bins so that they lose points! So the 5-point grade can lose 5 points if another grade puts a $5 bill into their bin. And in the end, the organization rakes in all the dough/food. This encourages people to donate more, ahem, generously!</p></li>
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<p>Try to make it a spirit event as well as a Beta project. It’s really fun. It works well because all those pennies add up.</p>
<p>^ and what do you get if you win?</p>
<p>I don’t know, perhaps a free-dress day if you have uniforms or relaxed dress code day if not. What rewards does your school usually offer for spirit contestS?</p>
<p>Perhaps I’m out of ideas because I’ve already exhausted the good ones? I’d done this for an awfully long time. </p>
<p>jimbob, I’ve already done that sort of thing, but thanks anyways.</p>
<p>My point in making this post was to find something FRESH and ORIGINAL, not something trite like spirit week or class rivalry games. I happen to take my job seriously.</p>
<p>Wow. That is a brillian idea!</p>
<p>“My point in making this post was to find something FRESH and ORIGINAL, not something trite like spirit week or class rivalry games. I happen to take my job seriously.”</p>
<p>Sheesh, I’m sorry 
I take Beta seriously too…sorry if my idea isn’t interesting to you :(</p>
<p>Well, how about peer tutoring for students at your high school? Beta Club members make handy tutors.</p>