Waving

Now that I've got the project it's self figured out I've got a couple of communication issues to tackle. First I've got to do some major arm waving to get teens to come to my program. Prior to the actually program I sent out promotional flyers and posters to the branch where I was planning to show the teens how to create these bracelets. I'm also always tring to communicate with the staffers at that branch so that they'll verbally spread the word to teens about upcoming programs. This particular branch has a great number of teens hanging around after school but they never seeme to make it into the programs. No matter how much I try to encourage employees to share upcoming programs with them or how many poster I put around the library or how many emails I shoot the local school media specialist it seems like no one knows we're offering anything. To help combat that problem I got the teens who showed up to the pogram at the start time going on the project and then took a lap around the library letting teens who were hanging out know what was going on and that they were welcome to join in. That worked out pretty well, three of the girls I talked to on my walk through came in just a little while later.