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SADD Shines Day
My Business Cares Sweepstakes
National Blood Donor Month
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Big Bowl Vote 2014
Project Yellow Light
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 SADDLines            January, 2013


Happy New Year to each and everyone of you!! Wow, it is time to hit the ground running. Check out the February Activity List, lots of suggestions. I hope you have requested your What Do You Consider Lethal presentation as part of your OTSD efforts, it's not too late...yet.
Domeshift registration will open soon! 
2014 SAB applications will be out this month! Check with your advisor, ask them to nominate you.
Resolve to make your SADD chapter the best it can be by participating in some of the upcoming events and opportunities featured in this issue of SADDLines. By the way, how do you like our new look? Let us know on facebook.

Get Busy
Robyn, IL SADD Coordinator 
Looking Forward: February Activity Guide

 

Happy New Year!

 

Let's start off the new year on the right foot! Take a look at the activity guide to get ideas on what you should do with your chapter! 

Governor Quinn Proclaims February 5th SADD Shines Day 
SADD and SADD students have been making positive change in their communities for 30 years now; so we will be observing February 5, 2014 as SADD Shines Day to celebrate SADD! 

The Governor agreed to proclaim February 5, 2014 SADD Shines Day so, it is already a state-wide day of celebration! 

As a way to recognize such a monumental day for our organization, we encourage every chapter to celebrate SADD in your school and community! Our SAB members have come up with some ideas below in addition to those included in the SADD National SADD Shines Resource Kit
  • 2 liter bottle + glow-stick lanterns
  • Hand out glow-sticks at school
  • Make a poster or order from the SADD Store
  • Give out Starbursts with a message attached

Order the SADD Shines Resource Kit 

and Register YourSADD Shines Event

send pictures of your event to robyn@ilsadd.org 

 

My Business Cares Sweepstakes

 

October 16, AT&T launched a new It Can Wait program called My Business Cares Sweepstakes. Small business owners who take the pledge to never text and drive to nominate their local middle or high school for a chance to win a $1,000 donation from AT&T. 

 

Each month, AT&T will select a winning nomination from the small businesses who have taken the ICW pledge and entered the Facebook-based sweepstakes (winners will be drawn at random).

 

The selected school will also receive an in-school It Can Wait assembly program designed to help educate teens on the dangers of texting while driving and encourage them to take the ICW pledge.  

 

Check out this documentary on how texting and driving affected these people and the other videos talking on this subject.

January is National Blood Donor Month!

There is a huge need for blood in this world, whether it be a patient at your local hospital or someone half-way across the world, there is a need for blood. Each time you donate a pint of blood you could be saving the lives of 3 people!

So what are you waiting for? Get involved with American Red Cross and donate some blood this month!

Act Out Loud

and earn some cash for your chapter

 

Act Out Loud is back for another year!

  

Plan and host a safe driving rally at your school in April or May next year! These rallies will focus on educating your peers on the three primary causes of teen crash fatalities: speeding, lack of seat-belt usage, and distractions caused by teen passengers.

 

Register today because the first 220 teams that register will receive $300 and a free toolkit stuffed with promotional items.

  

Complete simple tasks along the way, like submitting a poster and t-shirt design, and your chapter can earn up to $1,000 total - just for participating in the contest! Registration is open now at actoutloud.org

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Make sure to select SADD in the "National Organization Your Team Represents" field!

  

The deadline for this contest will be March 1, 2014! Be sure to check out last year's grand prize winner. Hopefully that will inspire you to aim for the grand prize this year! 

Big Bowl Vote 2014
 
Are you all ready for the big game that is happening on Sunday February 2nd? Yes that's right it's Super Bowl XLVIII! (48 for those who are roman numeral illiterate :D) 
 
Some may watch the game for the game itself, but personally I know some people who watch the game just for the commercials. (I know, shocking! Like who watches a national championship game for commercials...) 
 
We are asking you to conduct a nation-wide survey at your middle/high school! We want to know which brands you remembered and which ad was your favorite!
Project Yellow Light

Project Yellow is a scholarship competition design to motivate and encourage other teens to not drive distracted. 

Distracted driving has been a hot and growing topic and with good reason because 11% of fatal teen crashes have been linked to distracted driving. 

This competition involves the making of a ~30-60 seconds video that will motivate your peers to not drive distracted! Draw some inspiration at looking at last year's winning videos!

So what are you waiting for? Go apply now and enter in a chance of winning $5,000; $2,000; or $1,000. The deadline is March 17th so start brainstorming your ideas!
Featured Member of the Month:
Bridget Jones
 
Bridget is a senior at Marquette Catholic High School in Alton, Illinois. This is her second year on the Student Advisory Board. Bridget currently serves as president of her high school's SADD chapter and attended the SADD National Conference in June. Aside from being involved in SADD, Bridget also enjoys playing volleyball, is a member of her school's trap shooting team, is a member of the drama department, and is a member of Encounter, a youth Christian Choir. Bridget also loves to write novels, paint, drawing, and practicing playing the piano. While she is undecided on a college, Bridget hopes to major in either English or humanities.
 
p.s. she was a great help to me during this month's retreat, teehee.
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April 28th and 29th 

Happy New Year!

I hope everyone enjoyed his/her break and has made a bunch of new year commitments! Let's hold on to those commitments and make a push to spread awareness in our communities and schools!

I would love to hear what your chapter has in store for the new year so feel free to email me of what you are doing and what you are planning to do! I would love to share photos with the rest of IL SADD nation so please please please email me! 

Please email me at Michael.Lau@prevention.org if you have something special going at your chapter and would like to be highlighted or just had something that you wanted to share with the rest of IL SADD nation.

 

 

As always, if you haven't done so, please register your chapter!! 

 

Sincerely,

 
Michael Lau
Illinois SADD