This week we have a team update from Stone Bridge DECA.
In the Washington D.C. Metropolitan area one in six people are at risk for experiencing hunger. This means 641,000 people will be affected by hunger in our area alone. Overall, Washington D.C. and its surrounding communities are considered to be wealthy and somewhat unaffected by the economic climate of the rest of the country. While this may be true for some of the area’s residents, there are still a staggering number of people who battle hunger on a daily basis. The Capital Area Food Bank (CAFB) is designed to fight hunger in this highly populated urban area. They distribute 30 million pounds of food every year to 478,100 Washington D.C. residents. Stone Bridge DECA recognized there was a local problem and felt that is was important to shed light on such a prevalent issue right under our nose. To help combat this issue, we dedicated our chapter’s most popular event, the Battle of the Burn to raise money for this worthy cause. The Battle of the Burn was the name given to the most notable district football game of the year. Stone Bridge High School has had a successful AAA football program for several years, creating an energetic and spirited student body. In 2011 our neighboring high school and natural rival, Broad Run High School, was recently moved up to the same AAA status. Both schools are located in Ashburn, Virginia, hence the name Battle of the Burn. Because the two schools are only 2.3 miles apart, most of the students have grown up in the same community. Both schools are very competitive and crave the title of “best football team in Ashburn”. Stone Bridge won last year’s game with a score of 31-30 in overtime and is defending that title. Stone Bridge DECA used the Battle of the Burn game to raise money for the Capital Area Food Bank last year and the event was a huge success raising $2,500.00. This year’s game, scheduled for September 21, 2012, was sure to generate just as much excitement, so we knew we could be just as successful. The excitement started to build at the beginning of the school year, in late August. The entire community was planning to come out for the game. We planned to meet with the Broad Run DECA project chairs to coordinate plans for the game. We would host a spirit link competition where students could purchase links of paper that would link to make a paper chain, showing school spirit and support for their respective team. We also planned to design and sell event t-shirts and conduct a raffle for a prime parking spot at the game. All of the money generated from these plans would be donated to the Capital Area Food Bank. Our earnings for the Battle of the Burn increased from last year. We projected to earn $4,000.00. We raised $4,105.25 exceeding our goal. We sold 218 parking spot raffle tickets that came to $354.00. We sold 650 t-shirts for $3,200. Lastly the chapter sold 2,406 spirit links for $551.50. The amount of spirit links we sold doubled from last year’s football game. This project demonstrated how to plan and implement a project while making use of the skills we needed to use in order to make a profit. Our DECA chapter as a whole got to take part in a successful game where we were able to make $4,105.25 to donate to the Capital Area Food Bank. This was our most successful profit out of our Battle of the Burn game.
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