Athletes for Athletes

Jordan Keig, Caroline Phillips, Justina Lange

Identify collaborators across disciplines and industries, and create opportunities for individual and collaborative action to improve a situation, event, issue, or phenomena.

Collaborators
West Austin Youth Association
Communicated via email regarding donating to their special needs sports programs Meeting next week to discuss specifics

Casis Elementary
Communicated via email regarding using their fields for our event

Lady Sponsorships

Collaborators Cont.
Austin High School Athletics
Confirmed programs: Volleyball, Soccer, Football, Baseball Planning to talk to and hopefully gain participation from other athletics programs such as golf, basketball and red jackets

Austin High Organization

Planning to email PALS, choir, band, orchestra and AGS teachers to participate

Asses options and plan action based on evidence that indicates the potential for impact, taking into account previous approaches, varied perspectives, and/or potential consequences.

Brainstorming Process
1. Beautification of Austin, poverty/hunger, children with special needs in sports. 2. Decided to focus on children with special needs in athletics due to a shared interest and equal passion 3. Wanted to incorporated a sports tournament into our project
a) Volleyball Tournament b) Kickball Tournament

4. Wanted to focus on AHS athletics for participants, but decided to broaden the range of participants to all of Austin High

Current Plan of Action

Organized kickball tournament at Casis Elementary Each program/organization can form their own team with at least 8 players 5 dollar playing fee, 2 dollar entry fee for spectators Each team would be designated a sponsor which they would promote in exchange for donations from the sponsor Concession stand with food for purchase, proceeds also go towards our cause Prize for winning team (TBD) Date of tournament is not certain, possibilities are December 1 and December 8

Failed Ideas
Volleyball tournament Elementary and Middle school participation WAYA fields Donation money to State and National organizations

Identify and understand the expectation and perspectives of diverse audiences, and apply that understanding to meet the audiences needs.

Our Event
Perspectives researched in earlier project stage Demonstrate with sporting event the beneficial effects of sports
Community brought together through sports Fun time Raising money to increase kids opportunities with sports

Provide audience with information about our topic and place money is going Hope to teach audience benefits and versatility of sports

Select and apply appropriate resources technology, media, and/or world languages to communicate and collaborate effectively with diverse individuals and groups.

Resources
Have used articles and websites to research topic Communicated with collaborators through email, phone, face to face Would use flyers, emails, phone calls, etc. to get word out about event Posters or slideshows to communicate to audience about our topic and place money is going to Photos to document and share the event

Thank you!