[Lekooks] Fwd: Would you please help me find a few more good people?

[Gerald Flakas]

Wisconsin Academic Decathlon (WIAD) is an outstanding non-profit extracurricular program entering its 36th season of providing a rigorous curriculum and competitive academic challenges to the public and private high school students of our state, through its charter with USAD (United States Academic Decathlon), which is entering its 51st season. USAD provides the study materials for purchase by teams and provides our competition materials. And the Wisconsin State Champion earns the chance to participate in the USAD National Competition.

Arguably, having a successful Wisconsin Academic Decathlon program and team at your high school is more valuable than test scores, even, at showing your community all that is going well with and for kids at your high school. Wisconsin has the fourth largest program in the nation! 

WIAD provides opportunities for students to excel as individuals yet to progress only as a team, wholly gaining from productive cooperation and collaboration. USAD Founder Dr. Robert Peterson felt that “spunk and stamina are at the heart of every champion, and that there is a champion in the heart of every student.” The benefits of program participation include:
   
   - the academic growth of students
   - challenging multi-disciplinary learning
   - teamwork as a means to achieve self-knowledge and life skills development
   - equal opportunities for students of varying achievement levels
   - the inclusion and diversity of students that enrich the human experience
   - development of communication skills for college, work, and citizenship
   - high standards of honesty and integrity
   - excellence in our programs, services, and activities
   - respect for diverse points of view
   - the promotion of inter-school academic competition


WIAD challenges students to identify their own strengths and weaknesses and then push themselves beyond what they thought academically possible. Each high school’s nine-member team consists of: three “A” Honor students (3.75-4.00 GPA), three “B” Scholastic students (3.00-3.74 GPA), and three “C” Varsity students (0.00-2.99 GPA). This team concept creates a positive school image and academic role models, changes students’ attitudes, and encourages public interest in and awareness of outstanding programs in Wisconsin schools.
Esther and I have been helping out with the WIAD state competition as speech judge and timer for a number of years. They are short on volunteers 
to help with this years competition in Lake Delton on March 12 and 13. Please respond to Director Janelly Bailey at JBailey at cesa7.org
if you are willing to help with this. We are going on March 12 and could carpool.

Thank you,

Gerry Flakas

-----Original Message-----
From: Janelle Bailey <jbailey at cesa7.org>
To: Janelle Bailey <Jbailey at cesa7.org>
Sent: Mon, Feb 10, 2020 1:20 pm
Subject: Would you please help me find a few more good people?

I so appreciate your willingness to volunteer at State Competition March 12!
I'm still looking for 36 people to fill all of our spots. We still need:13 Interview Judges
13 Speech Judges10 Speech Timers
The easiest thing to do, electronically, would be to send out an email to your friends/co-workers/neighbors/fellow service organization members and attach the flyer I've included here, letting them know of my current needs. 
OR you could make a phone call or have a little visit with some folks you know who would be great at this, too, and maybe even offer to bring them along with you, carpool in green fashion.
OR you could post the flyer in your breakroom at work.
The commitment is 4-8:40PM on Thursday, March 12...with that great sponsored dinner served in the middle.
I'd really appreciate, immensely, you doing any of those things to help us fill the remaining volunteer spots. If each of you successfully brought in just one friend, we'd have more than enough folks.
And then very soon I'll be in touch to ask what you'd like for dinner!
Thank you so much.
Janelle
Janelle Bailey,Director, Wisconsin Academic Decathlon (WIAD)
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   CESA 7    595 Baeten Rd.    Green Bay, WI 54304Phone: 920.617.5617Fax: 920.492.5965Email: JBailey at cesa7.org




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