[22784] in APO-L
Re: [APO-L] Extension efforts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brown Michael-EMB021)
Tue Jul 16 10:03:39 2002
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 09:53:22 -0400
Reply-To: Brown Michael-EMB021 <Michael.R.Brown@MOTOROLA.COM>
From: Brown Michael-EMB021 <Michael.R.Brown@MOTOROLA.COM>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
>From: Randy Finder <naraht@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>
>>
>> If you want to plant the APO seed, do it in high school, and do it with a
>> warm handshake, not a cold call.
>Does anyone have any idea how much Key club deliberately feeds into
>Circle-K as part of the Kiwanis family?
>
>Also, one place to avoid losing efforts is by targetting those who are too
>young. For the scout shows I've worked which have all been annual or
>bi-annual events, you have to concentrate on those who are close to
>college. If a cub scout walks by the booth, you give about a two sentence
>explanation designed to answer his initial question without making him
>likely to spen much additional time at the table. They can take a pamphlet
>off the table, but I don't push pamphlets on them...
>
This is why I have found that Scout Shows are not as effective as other scouting events as good recruitement venues. Order of the Arrow events or Venturing events are better as the age group are strickly high school/college age. You are dealing with people who are either in the first year or two in college or a year or so away for going to college. Scout Shows are useful in getting the word out of APO to the adult scouters and maybe you'll get some of the older scouters interested as well, but too many are more aimed at Cub Scout age youth.
I can't speak of equivalent events for Girl Scouts or Camp Fire, so I'll leave that to those more knowledgable.
Michael Brown
APO LM & TB
