Staffing this event was one of the privileges I had as an outgoing regional board member that I chose to do specifically for my project. I helped plan and lead programs with my old board and the incoming regional board with a group of sixty middle schoolers from Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, and Utah!
Other than the normal responsibilities staff members take on at events, the outgoing regional board was tasked with showing their successors this ropes of running events. This served as a warm up, as it was practically stress free as the new board had no part in preparing for the event.
Through Friday and Saturday I spent time talking to many of the youth about NFTY, and promoting our region. When running a business it is essential to look towards the future and who future consumers might be. All NFTY regions run youth events for middle schoolers for the sake of advertisement so they can reach potential future NFTY-participants and keep the "customer base" alive and growing.
Our region has been doing an incredible job of this, as there has been a large push in the last few years to increase membership to match regions with significantly higher Jewish youth population densities.
With sixty participants, the event was a success. We were under the impression that everyone had a great time, which means we did our job and sold our "product". Product being the high school NFTY experience.
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