Starting yesterday continuing on to Saturday (tomorrow) there is a community Health week at Greenacres mall, which is a plush shopping center in suburban PE. Our jobs as interns at this event started yesterday. We set our table up with Grassroot Soccer fliers, pictures and 2 interactive games from the Skillz curriculum.
Its been an interesting experience so far. We weren't soliciting funds, rather making people aware of our organization and looking to make connections with people (kids, parents, teachers, and school officials) who were connected with schools for potential interventions (Skillz lessons) down the line. We were inevitably confused for a soccer team/club a few times due to the presence of soccer balls at our table and some people began pitching their own business ventures to us!
We're hoping that our table, flush with interactive games, our happy faces and some waka waka playing in the background would bring a smile to people's places. Its a different kind of challenge, but we've taken it on and hopefully the lessons from yesterday will help us today and tomorrow.
Off to look up laughter yoga (another pitch made to us yesterday), before another day at the mall...
***update (9/19) - Our mall experience varied by the day but in the 3 days there we were able to meet some interesting people and spread the word about the work that GRS is doing. We also handed out our office details so schools and orgs can contact us to deliver interventions in their institutions. We actually got to meet some school principals and teachers in addition to tons of kids (we handed them Skillz based magazines) and adults. We set up the fact and nonsense game from practice 2 alongside several key messages that we read to different people stopping by our table. This was the first intern driven project and with the help of the coaches, I think we did well. We were certainly forced to think on our feet and make things work without too much guidance. On to the VCT!
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