The gym floor was covered in students dressed in blue and white, all chasing after a large beach ball. Their legs kicked up higher than their heads as the ball went back and forth along the top of the crowd. The students watching from the bleachers screamed at the top of their lungs hoping their team would score. This was crab-walk soccer, a game marking the start of the first ever Westbrook High School Color Games. Color Games is the Seeds of Peace Olympics, where campers are split into two teams that compete in every activity camp has to offer. Campers work side by side using teamwork that rises above all differences. After experiencing the camaraderie and healing nature of the games when attending Seeds of Peace, I had the idea to bring it to my school in
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I raised just over $2,000, by getting local businesses to sponsor us by purchasing advertisements. And Then purchased 550 t-shirts for the students, volunteers, and staff participating with the money raised. A week before Color Games, however, there was a shooting in the next town over. A student who had graduated the previous spring had been killed, and the town was shocked. The funeral was scheduled on the same day as Color Games. My G-Mail inbox was overflowing with emails from teachers telling me that they would be attending the funeral and not the Color Games. I began to panic as the date crept closer, reaching out to friends to volunteer and fill the spots of these teachers.
In addition to the funeral, the forecast predicted rain all day long. Now we had to take all the planning for an outdoor event and move it all indoors with only a few days to spare. With the help of other Seeds from around the state, we crammed every event into the school: floor hockey in the hallway, corn hole in the library, and frisbees flying in the atrium. We even brought the largest event, a relay race with over seventy parts, inside the
I raised just over $2,000, by getting local businesses to sponsor us by purchasing advertisements. And Then purchased 550 t-shirts for the students, volunteers, and staff participating with the money raised. A week before Color Games, however, there was a shooting in the next town over. A student who had graduated the previous spring had been killed, and the town was shocked. The funeral was scheduled on the same day as Color Games. My G-Mail inbox was overflowing with emails from teachers telling me that they would be attending the funeral and not the Color Games. I began to panic as the date crept closer, reaching out to friends to volunteer and fill the spots of these teachers.
In addition to the funeral, the forecast predicted rain all day long. Now we had to take all the planning for an outdoor event and move it all indoors with only a few days to spare. With the help of other Seeds from around the state, we crammed every event into the school: floor hockey in the hallway, corn hole in the library, and frisbees flying in the atrium. We even brought the largest event, a relay race with over seventy parts, inside the