Hi everyone!  I am trying to gain more youth involvement in our Relay.  One thought was to send letters/emails to all the schools in our county basically inviting the individuals or organizations to become involved in Relay.  However, I am having a hard time constructing a letter that is quick, to the point and thorough.  Does anyone have a similar letter they have used in the past or could direct me to where I could find one?Thanks so much!

Last weekend two other committee members and I attended the GWD Youth Summit in Arizona.  It was one of the most amazing experiences of my life!  So many of the General Sessions were really powerfull.  Immediately I thought that some of those videos would be PERFECT to show at one of our Committee meetings to get our crew pumped up and even more passionate about this relay.  I have been looking for these videos on both this website and YouTube but have been unable to find them...  Does anybody know: 

2)If so, when?  

i am youth chair for my town and i am actually in high school! this helps because i can put videos on the school news show that runs daily and i can put posters and flyers everywhere to encourge youth to come do relay i also hold fun fundraisers at my school to show how much fun and easy relay really is!!

Hi!  We are adding a Youth Development chair position this year ont he recommendations of our division.  As of right now, there isn't a good description of the requirements of the position.  I was wondering if anyone on here has this position and if so, if you can provide me a description of the job they do?

My son helps me to raise money. He is 18 but he knows how it help others to find the end to cancer. I have to daughters my oldest helps as much as she can. She talks to theher coworkers to see if they want to help in any way. My youngest helps a lot she has alot of friends. Her friends help. We have a team of 10-13 of teens. They have pride of working hard to raise money. I am glad to have the team that I have.

Has anyone had luck getting their local National Honor Society involved with their Relay?  If so, please share how they get involved (ie: teams, volunteers, etc)..

Thanks!

Nick Kissel 

I am the captain for 2008's Warrior Marching Band Relay For Life team. This is our first year to do this. Last year, I was walking during this event with another band member, and we thought the band should do this. The turnout has been amazing! There are over 25 people doing it now, (our band is quite small..... ) We plan to do a Midnight March, the name explains itself pretty much, but Devin and I will move the band around the track marching at midnight. Devin and I have no authority in the band actually, so its pretty amazing that we had such a turnout. Only 2 seniors are doing it though, I guess the others didn't want Freshman in charge.

 This is an amazing thing for bands to do, because when you see us on the field, we're stiff, we move like robots, but we're not that. Atleast half of the band has been affected by cancer in some way, I've lost 3 family members and my grandmother has breast cancer right now. This is such a delicate thing, and what RFL does may start a tradition for our band. As far as we know we're the only band doing this....

We want to do an art contest for our county elementary schools and then post the art at Relay and let people "vote" on their favorite as an onsite fundraiser.  Has anyone ever done this at their event?  If so, how did you organize it?  I was thinking about a pre-registration form where we give them a Relay related theme. 

is there some sort of papers we need to fill out if we are a youth team...I am going to be 18 before our event and we have another adult...all the rest are below the age of 17...please help...much love

-katherine