Taylor - Blog #5

On Wednesday, I had to take my AP Stat test, so I didn’t go into work that day. Yesterday, I had the chance to spend the day with the two women who run Kick-It, Cathy and Holly. In the morning, I went to the office to work for a little bit on various projects and then went with Cathy and Holly to the US lower school in Shaker to attend a meeting about US’s upcoming Kick-It event in June. Before the meeting, I had never thought that planning a kickball event would be so complicated. However, I guess I was wrong. We ended up meeting with Leslie, the “House Headmaster,” and the head of the lower school to discuss the logistics of the Kick-It event. They are planning on having their Kick-It day on their last day of school, which is their final House day. Each House is going to form a kickball team, so there will be ten teams total. A major part of the meeting was dedicated towards planning the pep rally that is going to take place next Friday to explain what exactly Kick-It is and to get them excited for their event. As an incentive to fundraise prior to their June event, Kick-It is planning on taking the top fundraising team downtown to play kickball on Progressive Field, and will also provide Indians tickets to the top individual fundraisers. Allison, the founder of Flashes, and Quinn, her son who founded Kick-It, are going to speak at the pep rally, so I’m hoping that I will be able to attend to see Quinn talk about his hugely successful, nationwide fundraising event.