600 Abington Seniors

Great news!! It has been a goal of ours to get our programs into the high schools since the beginning because that is an easy way to access as many kids as we possibly can.   That can be challenging because they are very careful about whom they let in to speak to their students and they already have their own curriculum so it can be hard to convince them to let us use ours.  The other day we got a call from Abington High School.  They had heard about our organization and wanted us to present to their 600 Seniors.  600! We usually present to 20 to 40 kids at a time.  The Freshman, Sophomores, and Juniors were taking some test but they had nothing for the Seniors to do.  That’s where we came in.  They only had a short amount of time for us to talk to all of the Seniors.  They had 3 auditoriums set up with about 200 students each.  We had about 35 minutes to give our presentation which usually takes about 1 hour.  We had to talk REALLY fast!  Part of our presentation is a game we play called “Name That Celebrity”.  We had to cut the whole thing out AND talk fast just to do it in time.  After each presentation, we had 5 minutes to run down the halls and get to the next room of students to do it all again.  In less than two hours we presented our core program three times for about 600 Abington Seniors.  A good day!