Week Five

This week Sheila and I both worked on progressing our project. This past weekend, we went to our coaches training for our program. We learned many details about how to teach lessons, the main goal of the program, details about the final race, and how to treat each individual girl. At the training, we went through a practice lesson together as a group as if we were in their shoes. We also talked about the core values of the program and we received information on the buddy system for the final 5k in May. This week we held a parent meeting in the lower school with some of our school sponsors, such as, Mrs. White and Mrs. Spaeth. We were a little disappointed with the numbers of parents that showed up, but we showed the parents a short video about two women who went through the program as children and their experience and how it has impacted their lives, still to this day. Our registration opened this past Monday (1/16) and closes this coming Monday (1/23) if we reach the numbers. If we do not reach 8 girls then the registration will stay open at a first come system. If we get over 12 girls, then all the girls will go through a lottery to see who is on the team. Sheila and I will start the online Girls on the Run training, online first aid and CPR course this weekend. We are looking forward to starting up the program in the middle of February.