The Stafford Technical Center SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) Chapter has entered the National Organization for Youth Safety’s (NOYS) annual ActOutLoud.com distracted driving contest. The contest, which is open to any club or organization in any high school or junior high school in the United States, which could potentially be tens of thousands of applicants, has a $10,000 first prize, as well as a $1,000 stipend for completing all the steps in the competition. Last year, the Stafford SADD Chapter was a runner-up in this nation contest.
This year, the contest has a number of different tasks, and the SADD Chapter has put together a team of Stafford students in a concerted effort to be the national champions. The tasks involve a poster contest, which advertises the Act Out Loud “Rally”, a competition to design a toolkit of promotional items to be given to all the competing school groups for use in the national competition, a T-shirt design, which advertises Global Youth Safety Month, planning and implementing the local rally/ traffic safety day, and a video of the local rally.
The core of the Stafford team is seven SADD members from the Public Safety Services Program, each of whom brings different skills and relationships to the team. They are Nicole Greenier, a senior from Mill River Union High School, Dustin Stone, Roger Brown, Jr., and Aleea Dauphinais, juniors from Mill River Union High School, Joel Galvin, a junior from Fair Haven Union High School, Brenda Corbett, a junior from Poultney High School, and Brandi Heath, a junior from Otter Valley Union High School. The team also recruited three members with specific skills from three other Stafford programs: Dylan Goad, a senior from Fair Haven Union High School, who is in the Video Media Program, and who will be the team’s videographer for the video competition of the contest, Robin Williams, a senior from Proctor High School in the Digital Arts Program, who will provide needed expertise in the t-shirt and poster contests, and Katelyn Young, a senior from Mill River Union High School who is in Stafford’s Hospitality and Entrepreneurship Program, and will spearhead the promotional materials contest.
These ten students will also be planning Rutland County’s Youth Traffic Safety Rally , which will held with the SADD Chapter’s primary community partner, the Home Depot, at the Rutland Home Depot parking lot on May 11, 2013 from 10-2. Any groups that are interested in being part of this activity are encouraged to call the Stafford SADD Chapter Advisor, John D’Esposito, at 779-3903.