OASC Project Database
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Enjoy the Ideas database. Ideas have been submitted by OASC member schools. You can earn Gold Chapter Points by submitting ideas. Proof read before you submit. Also, please feel free to share ideas to help fellow members. To qualify for Gold Chapter, it must be submitted the same year you apply for the Gold Chapter.
Community Movie Night
School: Bennington HS
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Advisor: Kaitlyn Kavoossi
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Advisor Email: kkavoossi@benningtonisd.org
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Type of Project: Social or Recretional Project, Improve Student Attitudes, Fundraising Project
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Description: On the Friday prior to Spring break, our school's student council takes the lead in organizing an annual free movie night—a community-oriented event designed to foster engagement and entertainment. With careful consideration, we select a family-friendly movie and transform our school grounds into an outdoor cinema. This event, open to the public with no age restrictions, extends its reach beyond our school community. In collaboration with a local business, we secure the necessary inflatable movie screening equipment, thereby supporting and promoting local enterprises. In this initiative, the student council plays a pivotal role in running the event, ensuring smooth execution and a memorable experience for all attendees. To fund and further enhance the event, we extend sponsorship opportunities to local businesses. Businesses contributing to our movie night receive valuable exposure, including pre-movie advertisements, visibility on our event's Facebook page, and prominent placement on the movie poster displayed at various locations around town. This strategic partnership not only enriches the community experience but also provides businesses with a unique avenue for marketing and community engagement. This a fun and yearly anticipated event, funds are raised through sponsorship sales and snack sales. attached is the sponsorship form we use.
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Cardinal Day of Giving
School: Medford High School
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Advisor: Kara Locke
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Advisor Email: klocke@medford.k12.ok.us
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Type of Project: Community Service, School Service Project
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Description:Each year, on the last day before Thanksgiving break, our entire school Pre-K through 12 selects local, state, and international service projects and spend the entire day giving back to our community:
-Stamp Out Starvation (an international food packing project based out of Enid, OK)
-Painting local storefronts downtown with Christmas inspired art
-Making dog toys for the local SPCA
-Sewing dignity bibs for local nursing home patients
-Putting together tie fleece blankets for the local homeless shelter
-A canned food drive that replenishes our two communities' food pantries
-Using donated pillow cases, create tote cases for foster kids in our county
-Stuffed animal drive for our local Oklahoma Highway Patrol Troop to hand out to displaced children or victims of wrecks or violence
-Necessities drive and packaging for local churches to have on hand out during services
-Band visits local nursing homes and play for the patrons
-Bringing appreciation packages to local law enforcement, fire fighters, and EMS workers
And much more.
All morning, students rotate from station to station creating, packaging, or serving in the area of focus across the school or the community. In the afternoon, each group disperses and cleans up yards around town doing limb or leaf removal. Afterwords, all students come together and reflect on their day of service explaining the highlights and emotional evaluation of providing for others.
All items are donated beforehand by students, parents and community members.
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Luminaries
School: Ponca City High School
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Advisor: Molly Carter
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Advisor Email: cartem@pcps.us
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Type of Project: Social or Recretional Project,
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Description: Luminaries is an annual event right before the holiday break where leaders set up a light display on the front lawn of our school. Right after school on the dedicated day (we typically do this the Wednesday before break) we take some small brown sacks and put sand in them to keep them from blowing away, then we put a small candle in each bag. We set the bags up so they look like an image from the street in front of the school and come back out around 5:30 to light the candles. From 6-8pm we leave the image lit, taking approximately 15 minute shifts of 2-3 representatives to make sure a bag does not catch on fire. During this time we normally have our student council holiday party inside the school while community members can drive past and see our light display. At 8pm we go back outside and throw the bags/candles away that are not useable again next year and clean the front lawn of any trash or other belongings left.
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RAP Assemblies
School: Dibble Public Schools
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Advisor: Brenda Severson
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Advisor Email: severson@dibble.k12.ok.us
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Type of Project: Social or Recretional Project, Improve Student Attitudes
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Description: RAP - Recognizing Achievements Positively
RAP assemblies are held on the first Friday of every month. The purpose is to replace a typical pep assembly for one sport and one specific game, with an hour long assembly that recognizes everything that is happening in the entire high school. This brings students together by creating an inclusive environment that connects all the dots. It is best to have all students on the gym floor for the whole assembly. If you have a bigger school you might have to do each assembly by grade level, or switch which grade level is on the floor. You could even do it where the groups being recognized are the students on the floor. The point is to have as many students participating as possible. If you can start the year splitting each grade level into teams with a teacher or staff leader, then they can come in, sit in a circle and be with their staff or teacher advisor. You recognize every single event, student, group, or team that is achieving at that time. Recognize them all with run-in signs or flashing lights and confetti etc. For example, FFA and Esports get to break through a sign, like those that are typically used for only athletics. Recognize birthdays for that month if you can. Recognize students of the month nominated by teachers. Recognize Teachers of the month, nominated and voted on by students. Recognize perfect attendance. Recognize anything you can think of that would be positive recognition. Have the band, choir, cheer, dance/pom, stomp squad perform. Get teachers to do something funny. Put together a highlight video of everything that has happened at your school since the previous assembly. When it is time to do competitions or games, have everyone on the floor participate. Each team (as mentioned above) competes against each other at the same time. These games should be games that have a number of things that can be done in a certain amount of time. This way, all teams can participate even if they don't have an even amount of students. Typically games that can be done around a circle are best for everyone. Give prizes or a spirit stick to the team that participated the most, etc. End the whole thing with a giant line dance, or stand in a circle and sing your alma mater, etc. These should be student planned and led with close supervision. These assemblies changed the entire climate at our school. The students and staff are much closer and instead of just being a school, it is a home away from homes, filled with family instead of acquaintances.
WOW Days - "Welcome of Winners"
School: Dibble High School
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Advisor: Brenda Severson
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Advisor Email: cseverson@dibble.k12ok.us
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Type of Project: Social or Recretional Project, Improve Student Attitudes, Leadership Training
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Description: WOW Days - A workshop for 8th graders coming into our HS, and another workshop for 5th graders going into our MS.
We use two school hours to promote positive attitudes, group dynamics, and cooperation at the end of the school year to prepare them for their new adventure into the new sites.
Activities:
Welcome from their future Principal.
Split into groups of 15-20.
Travel from station to station or break out groups in equal time increments
*line dancing
*ice breaker games/team competitions
*friendship bracelets
*lap quilts (for veteran hospitals or nursing homes)
*Positive Posters *Electives Presentation
Movie Night Canned Food Drive
School: Owasso High School
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Advisor: Shannon Beck
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Advisor Email: shannon.beck@owassops.org
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Type of Project: Social or Recretional Project, Community Service
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Description: We have a tradition for the past few years to host a game/movie night on the football field. This event is a part of our yearly football homecoming week celebrations. At the event we provide yard games like nine square, spike ball, and volleyball while also playing a movie on our giant video board screen. We split the field and have one side for people watching the movie and the other half of the 50 is for yard games. Instead of charging for the event, we make it a food drive to benefit our local food pantry run by a few teachers in the school. Entry to the movie night was not a requirement but we were greatly appreciative of canned food items to go directly to our Owasso Food Pantry. The Owasso Food Pantry directly donates food/hygiene items to families of Owasso students. We wanted to help give the pantry a big head start on the year by giving them one big donation right at the beginning of the year. Attendance at the movie night was high and almost every person brought at least one canned food item with them. With the movie night and donations we were able to give the food pantry over 700 nonperishable food items to give to Owasso students and families. This provides a fun night on our football field for our community members while also giving back to the community in the future. We look forward to this every year.
Starfish Story
School: Empire Public Schools
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Advisor: Tammy Skiles
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Advisor Email: tskiles@empireschools.org
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Type of Project: Improve Student Attitudes
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Description: We ordered stories and a mini starfish off of Amazon and they come in a little mesh bag. At the beginning of the year we pass these out to incoming 6th and 9th grade. This serves as a reminder to make a difference in someone's life every day. They can keep them or pass them on to someone who is having a bad day. It really helps student's attitudes. Most keep them and put it in their binder so they can use it as a reminder.
Gratitude Week
School: Ada High School
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Advisor: Shawn Freeman
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Advisor Email: freemans@adapss.com
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Type of Project: Improve Student Attitudes
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Description:
OVERVIEW: An annual tradition the week before Thanksgiving break is gratitude week. Our council takes this time to reflect on the people in our lives that have had an impact in our lives and that we are thankful for. This tradition changes slightly every year to fit the needs of our council, school community, and the world around us. This is our 8th year to do this project. This year we created a gratitude station in our student center to encourage the student body to participate.
OUR GOALS: Every member of our council must write a set amount of letters. These letters can be written on old fashioned notebook paper and a plain envelope. They can be written on hand decorated paper that is made special for the recipient. They can also be written on a card bought at a store. This part is up to the individual and whatever style they like. This is meant to be not only valuable for the recipient but also the giver. The council is asked to be genuine and honest when writing the letters. We also wanted to create a way to encourage the student body to also show their gratitude and appreciation to others using notes.
OUR STRATEGY: .After these letters were written, they were hand delivered to the recipient by the person who wrote them. This year we set up and decorated a table in the student center, purchased pretty note cards and pens and set them on the table with a poster about gratitude and encouraged students to take and write notes to express appreciation and gratitude.
OUR RESULTS: Over the week before Thanksgiving break, the letters assigned for each day were delivered by each council member. Each member delivered a minimum of 9 letters to students, parents, and staffulty members at our school. The recipients were always grateful for the letters and said that it truly brightened their day. We had to replenish our table in the student center. It was fun to see the student body engage in the gratitude practice.
LESSONS WE LEARNED: The time spent writing the letters allowed our council to express their appreciation towards the people in their lives who are important to them. This had a positive impact on both our council and everyone who received a letter over the week. We were also really excited to see the student body engage in the note writing process!
Back to School Rally
School: Byng High School
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Advisor: Morganne Freeman Powell
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Advisor Email: morganne.powell@byngschools.org
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Type of Project: Improve Student Attitudes
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Description: We had a back to school rally on the first day of school. Student Council hosted the activity but the band, cheerleaders and pom squad performed as students came in. We introduced our new principal and new teachers. StuCo was able to leave sticky notes under some of the chairs and students won prize baskets. I would highly recommend this activity, the first day can sometimes feel overwhelming to students and teachers and this rally was a good way to start with a positive mindset and school spirit!
Dancing Fridays
School: Ketchum High School
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Advisor: Kelsi Lancaster
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Advisor Email: klancaster@ketchumwarriors.com
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Type of Project: Improve Student Attitudes, Social or Recreational Project
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Description: The spring semester Student Council did Dancing Fridays for students who wanted to come learn different line dances leading up to prom. It was a beneficial piece to get people involved and having fun during remediation time at school. It also gave students motivation to finish any remedial work required.
Community Easter Egg Hunt
School: McAlester High School
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Advisor: Destiny Collier
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Advisor Email: dcollier@mpsbuffs.org
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Type of Project: Community Service
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Description: McAlester High School has partnered with our local Ford dealership to help with the community-wide Easter Egg Hunt. We his thousands of eggs in multiple sessions and helped supervise young children on the inflatables. We have built a wonderful relationship with owner Sam Wampler who annually provides us with this opportunity to serve.
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Pura Vida Bracelet Fundraiser
School: Jenks Freshman Academy
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Advisor: Katy Sanderlin
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Advisor Email: katy.sanderlin@jenksps.org
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Type of Project: Fundraising Project
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Description: My students are big fans of the Pura Vida jewelry brand, particularly their bracelets. Pura Vida allows you to do custom bulk orders of bracelets for a discounted rate, so we made some in our school spirit colors and sold them as a stuco fundraiser. We sold the bracelets for $7, which is the same price that a regular bracelet costs in retail. We profited $3 per bracelet.
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Project Link: Click Here
Local Sports Fundraiser
School: Jenks Freshman Academy
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Advisor: Katy Sanderlin
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Advisor Email: jtilley@latta.k12.ok.us
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Type of Project: Fundraising Project and Social and Recretional Project
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Description:
Disclaimer: I have not tried this yet, but I think it could be a good idea for someone to try!
Local sports teams such as the Tulsa Oilers (hockey) and FC Tulsa (soccer) offer fundraising opportunities for groups to purchase tickets in a certain section. For example, Tulsa Oilers will give back $3-5 to the organization, depending on how many tickets are purchased. Attending a hockey game as a council/school/community could be a fun and relatively simple way to raise money for a cause.
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Big Event
School: Latta High School
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Advisor: Jessica Tilley
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Advisor Email: jtilley@latta.k12.ok.us
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Type of Project: Improve Student Attitudes
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Description:
Every year we host our Big and Bigger Event. This is a day of connecting and building student relationship with their peers. We divide the student class into groups lead by a STUCO member and they go through workshop and activities together throughout the day. We always enjoy this and its the best part of our year! This year we are merging our Big and Bigger Event, so we are doing a Wiffile ball tournament in the afternoon. This year our theme is Latta Olympics.
Pink Week
School: Latta High School
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Advisor: Jessica Tilley
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Advisor Email: jtilley@latta.k12.ok.us
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Type of Project: Fundraising Project
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Description: We have started having an annual Pink Week with proceeds going to our local hospital cancer center. Last year we completed with Byng and we will do the same this year. This is week of activities all geared toward making as much money. We have sold tshirts, candy, doughnuts, pizza, hosted a movie night, etc. I am looking forward to getting more ideas from this database to get more activities
LIT - Leaders in Training
School: Oologah High School
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Advisor: Donna Conley
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Advisor Email: donna.conley@oologah.k12.ok.us
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Type of Project: Leadership Training
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Description:
Our leadership training program was designed to empower high school students to mentor and inspire middle school students. This innovative approach allowed younger students to learn from their older peers, fostering a sense of community and guidance. High school students developed valuable leadership skills by leading workshops, team-building activities, and mentorship sessions. They helped middle school students explore their interests, passions, and goals, encouraging them to pursue their dreams and make informed decisions about their high school journey.
To foster a sense of community, we provided lunch for all participants, allowing them to connect and build relationships over a shared meal. This relaxed setting enabled participants to bond over shared interests and experiences, creating a stronger sense of camaraderie and collaboration. The shared meal also helped break down barriers, allowing participants to connect on a personal level and build lasting relationships.
Moreover, the program allowed council members to connect on a deeper level, forming new friendships and strengthening existing ones. As they worked together to facilitate the program, they discovered shared interests and passions, leading to opportunities for future collaborations and initiatives. This enhanced connection among council members enabled them to work more effectively together, leveraging their diverse skills and perspectives to drive positive change in their schools and communities.
The impact of our program extended beyond the training sessions. High school students continued to mentor and inspire their younger peers, creating a ripple effect of positivity and leadership. They went on to hold leadership roles in extracurricular clubs, sports teams, and community organizations, applying the skills and confidence they gained from our program. Our initiative demonstrated that investing in young leaders can have a profound impact on their growth, schools, and communities, shaping a brighter future for all. We had a great response from all the students that participated, and we all learned a little bit from each other regarding life and leadership.
Boologah
School: Oologah High School
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Advisor: Donna Conley
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Advisor Email: donna.conley@oologah.k12.ok.us
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Type of Project: Community Service
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Description: Each year, “Boologah” provides the leadership class an opportunity to serve their
community. In October of 2023, the Oologah-Talala Leadership class began to prepare
for the annual scare house for the community’s Halloween festival, “Boologah.” During
the weeks leading up to the event, the leadership class worked together to brainstorm
and vote on a theme and corresponding decorations. The students had to keep the
plans family-friendly. After much deliberation, the majority voted in favor of an “Into the
Woods” themed scare house.
To make efficient use of their time, the class split into committees: decorations,
greeting, and the reservation committee. The reservation committee called and booked
the desired building, which is in the center of where the festival would be held. Once the
reservation was made, decorating could be started. The decorations committee started
measuring and laying out where each decoration would be placed. It was decided that
in order to create the ambiance they wanted, the committee would have to utilize black
paper on the floor and windows. Next, fake foliage and animals were placed around the
house, along with curtains to direct visitors where to go. After testing out the house on
the students’ advisor, the scare house was ready.
On Halloween night, the students opened the haunted house to the public at 6:00
p.m. The class kept the scare house running for two hours and went through their last
group of kids at 8:00 p.m.
Boologah is an amazing opportunity for the Oologah High School Leadership
students to serve their community, allowing them to express their creativity and
providing an interactive and festive atmosphere for all ages. It is also a unique avenue
to reach out to other high school students and show them how fun Leadership can be!
Singo Bingo
School: Carl Albert High School
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Advisor: Grace Dozier
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Advisor Email: gdozier@mid-del.net
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Type of Project: Improve Student Attitudes, Fundraising Project
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Description: During our Spring philanthropic week, we are always seeking new and fun ways to get our student body reenergized. Last year, we incorporated the wildly popular "Singo Bingo" activity that we began seeing at our local restaurants and sports bars ( Louis in particular). Students were invited to attend out event at a $2 entry fee and everyone was given a sheet with 4 different bingo cards. Each card was a different genre/decade of music. It took careful planning to add all the music to the play list and to ensure that all the cards were different. It was worth the effort! Once the games began, the students were immediately excited and singing along to all the music ( regardless of genre). We saw more laughter and comradery than we had witnessed in a quite some time. Students began dancing in the aisles and everyone was thoroughly engaged. Needless to say, we raised a significant amount of money with absolutely no upfront cost. It ended in just over an hour and the students were begging more. This is the main event that all students are looking forward to again this year!
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Project Link: Click Here
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Voting Improvement
School: Norman North High School
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Advisor: Chad Boese
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Advisor Email: cboese@normanps.org
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Type of Project: Social or Recreational Project
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Description: Our goal during our student council election was to improve student buy in and the amount of students that vote in the election. Previously we had students voting through the voting 4 schools website during our advisory hour, however, more than half of the student body ignored the voting and chose not to involve themselves. To fix this issue we had the idea of setting up actual voting booths and having history classes go down to the nearest booth to vote. These booths were ran by seniors who can't vote due to them graduating. We also encouraged voting with "I voted" stickers and free suckers if they voted. These booths and rewards raised our buy in from about 40% to nearly 75% and proved to be a very valuable idea.
Breaking Down the Walls
School: Norman North High School
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Advisor: Chad Boese
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Advisor Email: cboese@normanps.org
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Type of Project: Improve Student Attitudes
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Description: A big issue on our campus is the amount of student buy in and attitude towards events and assemblies. Breaking down the walls is an event run by the ignite2unite meant to connect the student body further through multiple activities. This was very powerful for a lot of people on our campus and improved both teacher and student buy in. Following the event we noticed not only greater attendance, but also more energy at those events.
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Project Link: Click Here
Bomb Pop Fundraiser
School: Byng High School
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Advisor: Morganne Freeman Powell
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Advisor Email: morganne.powell@byngschools.org
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Type of Project: Fundraising Project
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Description: We had the opportunity to have a bomb Pop Fundraiser where we sold Popsicles to the elementary kids for $1 during their recess. We sent out reminders that went in students take home folders before hand so parents could send their kids with $1 and buy a Popsicle. This was a major success for out Student Council fundraising and I would highly recommend this as an easy and fun way to raise some money for your council. Bomb-Pop's go for around $4 for a box of 12, so you make pretty good profit.
Battle of the Pink Weeks
School: Byng High School
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Advisor: Morganne Freeman Powell
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Advisor Email: morganne.powell@byngschools.org
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Type of Project: Improve Student Attitudes, Social or Recreational Project, Fundraising Project
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Description: This past year Byng High School and Latta High School partnered together to have a battle of the Pink weeks, every year we split which school will host the Pink out game, leading up to that game we spend the week hosting events at our schools to raise money. Events include, students paying $1 to duct tape their principle to the wall, a bake sale, we asked local businesses to donate small items for a raffle basket, and to end the week we hosted a Car Bash where students paid $1 for 4 hits on a car, we had safety goggles and gloves to ensure students were safe.
Club Fair
School: Broken Bow High School
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Advisor: Wanda Wood
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Advisor Email: wwood@bbisdapp.org
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Type of Project: Improve Student Attitudes​
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Description:
​In order to encourage our student body to become more engaged in school we have created a Club Fair. Our Student Activities Committee is over the event. First, they select several dates at the beginning of the year for the Principal to choose from. Once the date has been chosen the Committee Chair sends out an email to the entire staffulty explaining the day and asking for their assistance. The Chair also asks questions like how many tables will you need, do you need an electrical outlet, who are your students that will be represent your club/organization so that we can get them excused from class for set up, the fair, and clean up. Once we have that information the Student Activities Committee then creates a blueprint of where the clubs/organization will be placed within the gym. The event is broken into two times with the Sophomores/Freshmen attending together and the Junior/Seniors attending together. The student body is given a card with a logo of every club/organization then they must visit every table to have their card punched in order to receive a gift. This gift doesn't have to be much maybe a bag of candy, popsicles, or a pop. This project is beneficial to everyone involved because it gives our students information on ways to get involved in our school and allows the clubs/organizations to get their message out to everyone.
Dierks Halloween Carnival
School: Broken Bow High School
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Advisor: Wanda Wood
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Advisor Email: wwood@bbisdapp.org
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Type of Project: Improve Student Attitudes​
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Description:
The Dierks Halloween Carnival is a small carnival that takes place inside the Dierks Elementary gym. The principal and fitness coaches asked our council if we could help them out since they did not want to take the teachers away from their teaching. Last year we had about 8-10 student council members help out with this event. There were about five different stations. One station was carmel apples and the kids would come up to a table and get a cup full of apples and would ask for carmel. The other stations consisted of games such as toy fishing, dancing, hula-hooping, and knocking down cup stacks. There were also different stations for the younger grades that were too little to participate. This was an all day event. 2-3 classes came every 45 minutes until we made it through all of the games. They would switch stations every nine minutes. The kids enjoyed getting to interact with the high school students and it made it more fun for them. We will be doing this event again this year if we are asked.
Freshmen Fun Day
School: Del City High School
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Advisor: Kristy Cooper
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Advisor Email: kcooper@mid-del.net
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Type of Project: Improve Student Attitudes​
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Description:
Every year, Del City does a series of class projects and for the Freshmen is Freshmen Fun Day. During the say, freshmen are introduced to DCHS Traditions, Campus, and more. They write a letter to themselves that will be open the last week of the senior year, learn chants, tour the campus and participate in our Commit to Graduate Project. The freshmen put on graduation robes and take picture like they are going to graduate. Click on the link for more information about the day.
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Project Link: Click here
Secret Staff Dress Up Week
School: Del City High School
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Advisor: Kristy Cooper
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Advisor Email: kcooper@mid-del.net
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Type of Project: Improve Student/Staffulty Attitudes​
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Description:
During our Staffulty Appreciation the Week the students help plan, the staff does a secret dress up week. Only the student council officers know about it because they help plan the days. Our staff and students had so much fun laughing as the kids were trying to figure out what was going on. The best day is when the staff dresses up like the students. So many smiles and laughs. Make the day that fits your school, but here were the days.​
Monday: Dress All Black (morning the weekend was over)
Tuesday: Wear Crowns (We were promoting our high school play)
Wednesday: Dress A Like (kids were trying to figure out what was going on)
Thursday: Dress Like the Students
Friday DC Pride