My story starts in a basic classroom: posters on the walls, whiteboards full of lecture notes from previous classes, and tables and chairs strategically placed amongst the room. Two tables have been pushed together and around them sat my fellow FFA leadership team members. Our teacher sat at the head of the table and talked without ceasing, as normal, about the myriad of opportunities set before us, and the minimal amount of time we had to do such tasks. He lectured us about all the activities we need to plan and prepare. Moving from topic to topic, in no particular order, our teacher said these words: “I received an email for a new project to advance our community and need volunteers to pursue this.” Seconds of silence seemed like minutes,
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FFA chapters that wished to participate were required to register online and put down a one hundred dollar down payment to participate. The plans for the event included: chapters collecting canned foods in honor of the World Food Prize, all collected cans were required to be recorded, the winner would be announced preceding the competition week, and the winning FFA chapter would receive all down payments of one hundred dollars previously provided by participants to donor to a food shelter of their choice along with all food collected. Our chapter registered, send in the down payment, and the plans to make this project succeed were …show more content…
Our expectations of a couple hundred cans were greatly underestimated, we were about to find that out the hard way. We divided the officer team into three groups, sending each group to either the elementary, middle, or high school classrooms. Four other officers and myself were sent to the elementary school with 5 plastic totes, and a hope that we would at least fill those. After arriving and entering the first three classrooms it became apparent that our little tubs weren’t nearly enough to carry all the cans collected. After collecting from every classroom in the elementary alone, it was estimated we had collected over 500 cans, and the towel cart we borrowed from a janitor was almost overflowing with
FFA chapters that wished to participate were required to register online and put down a one hundred dollar down payment to participate. The plans for the event included: chapters collecting canned foods in honor of the World Food Prize, all collected cans were required to be recorded, the winner would be announced preceding the competition week, and the winning FFA chapter would receive all down payments of one hundred dollars previously provided by participants to donor to a food shelter of their choice along with all food collected. Our chapter registered, send in the down payment, and the plans to make this project succeed were …show more content…
Our expectations of a couple hundred cans were greatly underestimated, we were about to find that out the hard way. We divided the officer team into three groups, sending each group to either the elementary, middle, or high school classrooms. Four other officers and myself were sent to the elementary school with 5 plastic totes, and a hope that we would at least fill those. After arriving and entering the first three classrooms it became apparent that our little tubs weren’t nearly enough to carry all the cans collected. After collecting from every classroom in the elementary alone, it was estimated we had collected over 500 cans, and the towel cart we borrowed from a janitor was almost overflowing with