Your Turn to Learn

Here are the source files used for the handouts and such.

• Posters for display at the mall (MS Publisher)
  These were printed at 22″x28″, laminated and mounted on foam core for display at the mall the week before the event. We were thinking of modifying these, printing at 8.5×11 and then enlarging to 11×17 and laminating to make signs for the tables — but when our number of tables was cut from 3 to 2 we went with tent cards instead of signs.
• Brochure v.2.11.07 (MS Publisher)
  This is the brochure with a couple of corrections from the version that we used at the event. We splurged and got 100 of these copied in color on heavy, glossy paper. We got another 200 printed on 20# pastel blue.
• Financial Aid handout (MS Word)
  A primer on key financial aid concepts
• Why college? (MS Word)
  Overview document to encourage higher education
• Tent cards (MS Word)
  We used these to identify different parts of the display
• Press release (MS Word)
  Sent to Raleigh News and Observer, Cary News and WUNC after the event.
• Survey (MS Word)
  Used to get information on what kinds of things folks want to hear about in future event. Also used as the “ticket” for a drawing for mall gift certificates. No one “joined on the spot,” but we did ask the questions we’d need to fill out a guest list since this could have been considered a Shape the Future event.
• Branch membership form (MS Word)
  We change this each April and each January to account for dues increases. Note that if someone uses this form to join at the national and state level, we just fill out the at-large form(s) for them and send in the money. But we at least know that they are “connected.”

See also AAUW NC 2002 workshop (based on AAUW 2001 workshop) on how to do a display. We skipped some of the steps, but we did have balloons — great for reeling in the kids and then we could talk to the moms and dads.

Darlene McLamb pulled the pictures used in posters and the banner from the Microsoft Office collection. Steve Davis (Nancy’s husband) assembled the JPG banner from those pictures.