This week there was great excitement at Mulhuddart. Everyone was very busy getting ready for different events they were organizing for their BYCA awards.  The Tuesday afters school group, otherwise known as “Something Cool For After School” ran their “Happy Saturday” event.   At the event they sold jars which they had painted and filled with sweets, t-shirts they had painted and cakes they had baked. They also had different fun events like face painting and singstar.   

At our Photography Group the group decided they wanted to raise money for Dublin Zoo for their BYCA project. It was decided we would take them to the Zoo to take lots of photos on Monday 18th April.  They will then print the best of their photos and put them into frames which they will make themselves. They also want to make keyrings.

The policy of Foróige is to empower young people to do things for themselves, so even though you might want to do things for them, you need to encourage them to do it themselves. So they went online to get a price for buying keyrings and made phone calls to different company’s. They also looked up the price of kits to make frames for the photos.  Next week they will need to fill out the BYCA booklet which is no easy task and make up project boards explaining exactly what they did. The booklet and boards are what is sent in to be judged for the award.  

On Friday we had a meeting in Blanchardstown with the anniversary committee about the brochure. It went very well. We decided on things like what font to use for the brochure cover and the font for the rest of the brochure.  All that is left to do now is to put in some final pages of photos. Looking forward to finishing the brochure now and moving on to other things. I have learned a lot from this project. I can see now where the theory I studied in college comes into play. How important it is to have all the assets you need before you start a project. When we started this brochure about five week ago we were given many photos to sort through which were to be included in the brochure. Now five weeks later we are still getting photographs to included in the brochure. It is very time consuming when you have to keep changing things you thought were complete. It has been a great experience and along the way I have also learned a new application (in-design). Denise and I are very pleased with the end product.