Hi,

We have an opportunity for volunteers on Friday, January 31 at Rossville
Middle School.

We need volunteers to assist with Reality Check. Students will participate
in a simulation exercise designed to give them experience in paying bills
after completing some form of an education (dropping out of high school,
high school grad or college grad).
Students are assigned a career and family scenario. They move through 13
stations and make budget decisions: rent an apartment or buy a house; buy
generic food or name brand food at the grocery; decide which utilities they
can afford (cell phone, cable, etc); transportation-bus tickets or car
payments, etc. Students even have the option of picking up a second job if
they can't make ends meet. The volunteers staff the booths, record the
student's decision and deduct it from their "checking account".

The kids enjoy the change of pace and really get into the scenarios they
have been assigned. They complain about not making enough money (if their
card was a high school dropout, for example) and decide that maybe getting
a college education is pretty important (which is the whole purpose of GEAR
UP).

We need volunteers for January 31 from 8-12:00 to assist with calculating
those expenses from checking accounts. Refreshments will be provided.

If you would like to assist please let me know. We are trying to place 2
volunteers at each of the 13 stations.

This is a great simulation for any youth group middle school-high school,
by the way.

Thank you
Sandy



"Work like you don't need money, Love like you've never been hurt, and Dance
like no one is watching"


Sandy Cole
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Center for Community Career Education (Celebrating 20 years of service in 2000)
615 McCallie Avenue
Chattanooga, TN  37403
(423)425-4475 voice
(423)425-5282 fax
http://cecasun.utc.edu/~careered/