This is just a brain dump of ideas for the 2013 NCYC in Indianapolis. These are just things that have been noticed by sponsors that would help for future sponsors.
- Pack breakfast and have the youth come by your room to get it in the morning/night before.
- Bring baggies of all sizes from trash bags to 1qrt bags.
- Bring Cases of water, 1 case for 7 people
- Bring water bottles.
- Make sure to stay hydrated.
- Pack a cooler full of soda. Pop machines in hotels, etc. sell out fast.
- Call and have lunch pre-ordered, Jimmy Johns, Little Ceaser’s, Subway, etc.
- Take videos with you on the bus. Its a long trip.
- Have pre-packed snack for the bus ride to and from NCYC. (fruit snacks, crackers, candy, granola bars, etc.)
- Have a sponsors room and stage all your stuff from that room.
- If you have a large group talk with your dioceses/hotel and see if there is a conference room/suite close to your rooms that can be rented so your youth have a place to come and wind down after a long day. The hotel staff don’t like them in the corridors.
- Take lots of pictures.
- Each sponsor should have a baggy that has a pair of nitrile gloves (not rubber due to allergies), band-aids, and tissues in it. You can do basic first aid that doesn’t require a trip to a nurse.
- Pack a small first aid kit for the group.
- Pack a pole with some identifying symbol so your group can find you.
- Make pins, they are popular. Most folks can go through about 75 a day.
- Make clothes pins as they are easy to put on people.
- Find stickers for your group to distribute.
- All of the pins and stickers should identify your parish.
- If you are taking pictures have cards that indicate where you are putting them so folks can find them.
- Carry spare batteries for your cell phones, tell the youth to do the same. There are not a lot of places to charge them.
- Hats are always good, but they need to be cool, like chicken hats, light up hats, etc. Oriental Trading Co. has these.
- Take tape for multiple things including sealing the doors of your youths rooms so they don’s sneak out.
- Take note pads so the youth can write about their experiences on the way back.
- Beads are ok trading items.
- Print schedules that apply to your diocese.
- See if you can find maps of the facility and surrounding area so you can tell your youth prior to going where they can not go.
- Use social media if at all possible.
More items to come as we think of them.
Tony
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This is my first blog update from our bus ride to NCYC. We departed on time. Father lead us in prayer prior to leaving. The trip has been uneventful with most people sleeping.
I’ve managed to scare some of the pilgrams with my sleeping. I’m sitting in an isle seat. And when I fall asleep I tend to lean far into the isle. Theyf think I’m going to fall out of my seat. No such luck. 🙂
We pulled off in Kingdom City MO for a streach break. Now we are back on the road and most of the pilgrams are asleep.
As soon as I have a decent data connection i’ll upload the video from our evening prayers prior to departure.
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Our t-shirts are ready. For those who read my blog I’ll give you a sneak peek at the end of the blog. Had a slight issue with the iron on transfers. We applied them and then washed the t’s. When they came out of the wash some of the iron on’s had started pealing. This peeling was not an issue for the t’s we had spray painted and actually gave them a more authentic look. The ones we did not paint though did not look good. So while I’m at work today I’m painting the t’s. (I guess this is one thing that phone support does while they are talking with you.) 🙂
Otherwise I guess my helpful set of tips for anyone who has yet to leave for NCYC yet are these:
- Take pop, water, whatever with you. The vending machines will sell out quickly in your hotels.
- Take food. It will be marked up.
- Take a poncho or a trash bag (you can cut holes in them and get the same result as a poncho). Its supposed to rain Saturday and Sunday. might as well be somewhat comfortable while standing in the rain.
- Need last minute trading items, think duct tape, cloths pins, or label makers.
- Have fun! you’re celebrating your faith! And faith isn’t supposed to be monotonous, its supposed to be enjoyable. Christ died for us so that we may have life and have it abundantly. ENJOY YOUR FAITH!
As promised here our the groups shirts. On the front it says “Jesus Loves This Guy.” The back says “What up, Pray’a?” You will probably see some of these wondering around at NCYC. And before someone says why did you say “Guy” and not use a gender neutral term it was a decision of the youth, both boys and girls. They have chosen to use the masculine neutral form of the English language.
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Well our group is getting ready to hit the road to Indianapolis for NCYC 2011. We’ve had our ups and downs and things are really shaping up. We’ve got everything ready to go and I think everyone is ready to go. Our youth are growing and learning responsibility.
Sunday night we are getting together to prep some of the trading items for NCYC this year. We are going to try and brand all of our items with our NCYC logo for this year.
This year we are doing cowboy hats, bucket hats, pins, and stamps. We got the hats from oriental trading company. The pins we are going to make with pin blanks. And the stamps are going to be stamps from the USPS.
Everyone may have other additional trading items too. We are hoping to see our buttons all over the conference.
More to come soon. Hopefully I will be doing some posts and pod casts from the bus on the way down.
T.
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This is my first time blogging. I will give readers a heads up my blogs will be rather wide and varied. You will probably get to see content from computers to politics here.
And in classic nerd fashion.
Hello World!
Tony
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