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Now what you all have been waiting for the winners. And some answers to concerns that were raised.
Congratulations go out to the Winning Halls
They are:
In first place- Space for Grace with their Scooby Doo Theme
Prize $30 for some type of Hall/Building Activity
In second place- Second East Central Wesley
RA Beth Shaw Duffy
Prize $20 for a Hall/Building Activity
In third place- Second West Seaton
RA Scott Kortlandt
Prize $15 for a Hall/Building Activity
In lieu of money halls may request money for a pizza party for the hall which has been the prizes in the past.
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I think it will be nice if every hall will be decorated. For the next year, if possible try to talk with RD's so they can talk to their RA's try to see if it can be counted as a hall program so everybody can be motivated to do it. I think it will be more fun if kids will find the whole building decorated. Let make it more fun for the kids.
We go with what halls tell us they want to participate. We can not force halls to participate that don't want it.
It would be nice to have an extra day of decorating to improve the overall quality of the decorations for the kids.
I think we should be able to start sooner with decorating, and perhaps be able to leave up the decorations until at least Halloween! Otherwise, our hall had fun!
We are working on that to see if we can be allowed to do that. We are going from the College rules.
Most things went well and smoothly, but I would like to see the tour guides provided with more clear routes so that they go through all of the halls and in the proper directions through halls that are specifically oriented.
The tour guides had specific routes drawn out for them. We tried to make it as clear as possible, but we had last minute drop outs that had to be taken off the lists.
I only say there were too many kids because most of my women ran out of candy. It would be nice to have some sort of estimate to know how many to buy candy for. I don't know if this is possible or not though.
We were told to expect about 100 kids, there were a lot more than 100. Also, I am a senior, so there is no way that I will be able to participate next year but if I were here I would be willing. The only other complaint that I have is that there was a handful of kids that came through more than once or even twice, and they were upset when we would not give them candy again.
We can only estimate that there will be between 100 and 600 kids that show up. We try to balance the routes so that an even number gets sent everywhere. With the drop outs however that made it more difficult.
As far as kids going through a second time. It was from the joining new routes after they were told they could not go through again. Thank you for enforcing this by not giving them more candy.
I feel that this program is a great community builder. I also know that it is hard to fund this on our own. It would be nice if there were even $20 available per hall that is participating or something to compensate for the expense. Also, for the time it takes to set up and take down, it is hard to get it done. I think if it could be left up for 24 hours or part of it or something that would be really nice.
While we would like to give out money to help it is not feasible. We do all of our own fundraising and have to have money to fund other things. We spent over 500 dollars just to organize this. With the $20 per hall and 20 halls participating that would have eaten straight through our budget.
I think that we need more participation from the campus, but I think that RHA did a great job in trying to recruit volunteers. It is just people being lazy. Overall, with the help we had, I think the program went well!
We had about 12 volunteers drop out at 2 pm of the day of the program. We were scrambling around as much as possible to get more people to help out. Hopefully it will get better.
The only suggestion I thought of for next year would be to have a progressive sort of thing for our house. Where smaller kids would come during the beginning and the older kids would come later. We were able to change the house accordingly for the individual groups and this was not a problem, but it is just something to think about.
It is a good idea in theory. However with families with multiple age children it is going to cause a problem for them. We have to have parents accompany children because of liability and many parents are not going to want to go out multiple times with multiple children.