Reflection 10/4/14 - School Spirit 5K and Homecoming Parade

In doing my CAS project, I am not only a part of undertaking the challenge of implementing the PHS Neural Activity Club as a leader, but am also still a member myself in the county Neural Activity Club, which I also include as an entity of my CAS project. Neural Activity put on a School Spirit 5K on the 27th of September, in which participants dress up in support of a Mesa County high school. This being a county fundraiser, the funds raised do not got to Palisade's Neural Activity club. However, every student involved or not involved in the club at Palisade has the opportunity to join the county club, where the money raised goes to allowing members to go on amazing and awesome adventure activities. So every club, including Palisade's, helps with the county-wide fundraisers because we are still a part of the big organization. The 5K did not do as well as we'd hoped, honestly. We were anticipating more runners, however it just didn't turn out. But, we still consider this a successful fundraiser, being that it was the first one for the county club and also because we made $640 for the program! The school club that we organize and run helps with these fundraisers for the county, being that we advertise through flyers, posters, announcements in our school to get the word out to the students. Although this fundraiser wasn't overly-successful, I know that we will be able to grow from this experience and host bigger and better, more profiting fundraisers. Also in the month of September was Homecoming, which of course means the Homecoming parade. We participated in the parade, and it was a major success. I helped decorate our "float," and was proud to ride on it in support of our cause. While we rode through downtown, I was very overjoyed to see that a group of parents had began to applaud us as we went by. They said that they were very proud of what we stood for and that it was needed in the community immensely. It was great to be able to have most of the members there, being proud to also advertise and extend this message to the community in the parade. I knew that it meant a lot more is to come for Neural Activity!