Exhibit Fair is coming soon on Saturday, January 17.
As of December 31 the following families: Rausch, McGuiness, Reichert, Friere, Hoyts, Willis, and Armstrong have indicated that they wish to take part in this year’s Hand’s On Exhibit Fair. We had 7 as a minimum number of participants to run the fair. We have exactly that. It is important first of all to know if anyone has changed their mind.
Secondly, because of not having a volunteer coordinator we are behind and it is only 2 1/2 weeks away. To make it easy the board has decided to have a theme this year of “Pot Luck”. In other words, not only bring your pot luck food to share but, for your exhibit, you can choose any topic you wish whether Geography, Science, History, or even Math (as per Peter and Scott!).
The only criteria is that you not only have an exhibit. but an activity for students to do at your booth which ties to your topic and which your kids can teach their peers through. (ex. an experiment, craft, game, etc.). Also, we often have a “stop and perform” option where we briefly get everyone’s attention for an oral recitation which ties to your exhibit (remember Martin Luther Kings Speech?), or a brief performance (ex. juggling), or a short game (ex. colonial). This keeps it all interesting.
Particulars: the Fair is scheduled for Jan. 17 (Saturday for Dads) at 1st Presbyterian in Milford.
It usually runs for about 3 hours with the food portion being whatever you could bring that qualifies as a ‘heavy snack’ (e.g.. soups and breads, special family heritage dishes, plus a snack or desert–There are only 7 families so everyone may want to bring two things.)
The actual time will be decided based on who takes leadership… which brings us to our next subject:
A Coordinator–is still needed. (See Section 5). Note that much of the pre-planning and communication is done through this and past emails. Whoever takes over from here needs primarily to secure topics from all participants, see that a flier is made, get commitments for set up and clean-up, and be the one to be their early for set up and stay through closing.
Please note that Nancy can certainly help with some of the communications, and the location is Amy’s church so she can answer or help with facility questions. Amy has led this event the last few years so we are both here to support the coordinator. However, the snow date is presently the following weekend the 24th and neither of us are available on that day (Lego Competition–and if that gets snowed out who knows.) We would like to see someone take it on who could grow with it and their kids, understand it, and then be next years coordinator, beginning planning earlier. But if you choose to do it this year you are not automatically assigned to next year (it just gets easier after your first time.)
This is a small group to go ahead with the fair, but those involved are choosing to do so again because the kids love it and learn from it which is our ultimate goal. If anyone has changed their mind we need to consider our next step carefully. (If we are snowed out we may need a new snow date or cancel completely as it would be down to a max of 5 families on the 24th.)
Please respond with your feedback and any willingness to be the coordinator.
