12/13/14 Fruita Christmas Parade

Today we advertised the Neural Activity Club in the Fruita Christmas Parade. Not only did we advertise for our club we also advertised for the Polar Bear Plunge which is a fundraiser for the Neural Activity County Club. Last Monday we told our Neural Activity Club members to come and participate in the parade with us, and luckily 5 were able to come. We had a small float with one person dressed up as a polar bear. I was in charge of handing out candy to all the middle school kids. It would have been a lot easier if we had more people so we could hand out more candy. Even though we had to quickly hand out candy it was still super cold!! But hopefully it sparked an interest in some of the people watching the parade, and encouraged them to come join the club.

December 2, 2014 Middle School Presentation

On Sunday the first Cassie, Callie, and I put together a presentation for Redlands Middle School. On Sunday the co-founder of Neural Activity wanted to meet with us to go over the presentation. We put together a 30 min presentation that we would present to 25 sixth graders. On Monday the second we left school at 12:15 to go present, for a half an hour. However, when we arrived at Redlands Middle School we found out that they wanted us to present to a 150 of their sixth grade students and for an hour. This was shocking we only had a 30 minute long presentation that we had to change that instance. We decided to give it a shot we would elongate the presentation and ask questions at the end to get the students involved. We split up the presentation by slide, Cassie went over how drugs effect the end product of our brains, Callie went over the time it takes for your brain to heal, and I discussed how the brain effects your mood. At the beginning the kids were a bit talkative so it was hard to grasp their attention. However, once we did the Ping Pong Activity the kids were very intrigued with the presentation. The activity showed the effects of excess dopamine in the brain. I believe the presentation went very smoothly. At the end a couple of the teachers came up to us and asked if we could come back for some of the seventh graders. Although at the beginning it was a little challenging speaking to so many kids, in the end we put together a pretty good presentation.

Homecoming Week 9/15-9/19

Homecoming week was a busy week for Neural Activity. We started off the week with a Neural Activity Meeting with the freshman. We talked about the upcoming events for homecoming week, and Neural Activity's role in the parade. We asked all the freshman to show up at the parade with their green Neural Activity shirts. We emphasized the more people the better. On Thursday night they had the powder puff play offs, the winner would get the money from dollar day. Unexpectedly Macharnie gave us the prize money they won from the game. This started off our spending money for the activities for the members. We really appreciated the money to start off the club. On Friday we had the parade with the Neural Activity float, unfortunately our float looked pretty lame. However, it was a learning experience, and we will do better next year. We were a bit under prepared because we didn't have tape. So we had to re-plan what we were going to do for the float. On top of that out of around 30 freshman only 14 came, next time we will shoot for higher numbers.