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Who goes to the Convention?

MHS Pitchfork, 8/15/2005, 5:34:06 PM

For those advisers who have gone to the convention in the past, whom have you gone with - students? How did you deal with hotels, no parents, etc? Was it an issue at all?

Also, how did you fund it? Did students pay for a portion of their way (like airfare or something like that)?

Thanks!

Responses

km, 8/18/2005, 8:41:04 PM
Students paid their airfare and raised the rest in ad sales/fundraisers. They had to sell a minimum of $160 for the newspaper itself and then anything raised after that went 50/50 toward the trip up to the cost of travel, lodging, registration and per diem costs.

You could also bank say 20 percent of all ad sales toward a trip.

Also, juniors had priority on spring trips so they could use the info the next year and seniors in the fall or summer before senior year. First time students also had preference before second timers.

I took up to 10 students. Any more and our district would have required a second chaperone, whose way would also have had to be paid.

all sightseeing expenses had to be paid by the students and not raised by fundraisers/ ad sales.

You could also require a certain grade in the class for preference or give preference to editors, etc.

AW, 8/29/2005, 7:26:28 PM
Beg, borrow, steal of you have to. Well. don't steal, but do what it takes to take your kids to the conventions. They are so much fun for kids to get out, travel, hear speakers, compete in contests, revel in awards, etc. Take chaperones so that you can enjoy yourself away from your kids. Go to the adviser luncheons and meet new peeps. I usually have kids pay for airfare and part of the hotel if it is super high. Yearbook pays for convention fees and part of the hotel (sometimes all of it if we can afford to).