Make A Splash - Donate Cash
Project Summary
"Make A Splash-Donate Cash"
Group 4
Stacy Dettmann
Rob Batt
Kelley Hanson
Melissa Nguyen
Cole Peevler
Patrick Armstrong
Jocelyn Figg Event: "Make a Splash - Donate Cash"
Type: Swim/Carnival/Concert Funday
Date: June 15th, 2009
Where: Coralville Community Aquatic Center, Coralville, IA
Participants: ~300 people in the Iowa City/Coralville area
We are planning to have "Make a Splash-Donate Cash" at the Coralville Community Aquatic Center in Coralville, IA on June 15, 2009. A few months before the event we will send out e-mails, letters, and make phone calls to several businesses asking them to donate any services or money they would like to offer to this day or the flood fund. We will also have people going around town advertising and selling raffle tickets. On the actual day as people arrive, they will have to give a donation to enter the water park that will go to the victims of the flood. We will be having free swim, scheduled water games, carnival games, snacks, dinner, and a concert. Local businesses will donate food and prizes, so that we can have raffles, door prizes, and stands for food, in which the money will go the flood fund. To commemorate the flood, we are planning on having flood victims come and tell their stories.
| Schedule for "Make a Splash and Donate Cash" Fun day | |
| 10:00 | Volunteers arrive to set up food stands, carnival booths, donation tables, front gate, concert stage, picnic tables | |
| 11:30 | Lifeguards, pool personnel, volunteers to serve the food, volunteers to be a front gate collecting money, volunteers to run the carnival games, volunteers to run water activities and any other volunteers arrive | |
| 12:00 | Pool opens for open free swim, donations taken at the door to enter, food stands open | |
| 12:30 | "swimming superheroes" start going around pool with buckets to collect any donations people want to donate | |
| 1:30 | "funny swimming clowns" start going around selling raffle tickets | |
| 2:00 | Carnival games such as the dunk tank, water duck game, fishing game, dart water balloon game etc. etc. open | |
| 2:30 | Some organized water games in part of the pool start such as a cannon ball contest, shark n minnows, water tug of war | |
| 3:00 | Back to regular free swim in the whole pool | |
| 4:00 | More organized swimming games in part of the pool such as marco polo, water balloon launch at target (outside pool), some relay races etc. etc. | |
| 5:00 | Return to open free swim | |
| 5:00 | Start serving more dinner type foods | |
| 6:30 | Some organized outside the pool games such as Hot dog eating contest, picture coloring contest for little kids, watermelon eating contest | |
| 7:30 | Flood Victims Start telling their stories | |
| 8:00 | Pool closes/ Raffle drawing | |
| 8:15 | Concert begins, Flood Victims will tell their stories in between songs | |
| 9:00 | Flood slide show (concert break) | |
| 10:00 | Concert ends | |
| 10:00-12:00 | Volunteers clean up | "Make a Splash-Donate Cash" would be considered a success if we raised $25,000 for the flood victims and if everyone had a good time during the day. This would be measured by taking the participants' emails and later emailing them a survey about their experience for the day. We need to consider the weather, as it could affect the entire event being cancelled and rescheduled. Also, we need to keep in mind, safety around the pool area. |
Press Release
"Make a Splash-Donate Cash"
The summer 2008 flooding on the Iowa River caused millions of dollars in property damage and displaced thousands of Iowans from their homes. To help those affected by the flood the organization, Good Times is holding "Make A Splash-Donate Cash" event on June `15th at the Coralville Community Aquatic Center 1513 7thSt right off of 1st Ave in Coralville.
This all-day event is going to offer swimming, foods, games, music, and prizes at the center. The day will start with swimming and games inside and outside of the pool area. The cost is any donation amount at the door and there will be raffles going on outside of the pool area. All proceeds will go to help flood victims in the Iowa City/Coralville area.
The Good Times club is ran by students at the University of Iowa. These students are all members of recreation management classes which are designed to teach students the art of event management. If you are interested in helping with the event, please contact us at GoodtimesIC@gmail.com. The students who are running Good Times are: Stacy Dettmann, Robert Batt, Jocelyn Figg, Kelley Hanson, Melissa Nguyen, and Cole Peevler.
The website for the aquatic center where you can learn about the event and find directions to the event is: http://www.coralville.org/mod.php?mod=department&op=viewcustom&did=24&cid=7