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designated a Captain who will head the team and be responsible
for managing materials
we send, including the crucial $27 loan. It is the Captains
personal responsibility (and
thus yours as well) to return the loan to Gumball Capital as
soon as THE CHALLENGE
period ends. At this time, all teams should have completed the
pre-CHALLENGE form at
www.gumballcapital.org. All teams should also join Gumballs
Facebook group and post
daily updates (at least a few paragraphs) on the website; during
THE CHALLENGE, the
Captain is responsible for ensuring that the team posts an
update and at least fivephotos to Gumballs Facebook group and
Gumballs website per day. REMEMBER: teams
get badges and points on Gumballs website for posting cool
updates and photos
badges and points get you legit prizes!!! (i.e. think Macbook
Pros, iPads, etc.)
Monday, November 15 (Day #1): THE CHALLENGE (as well as 2010s
Global
Entrepreneurship Week) officially starts at 6:00am on this
Monday. Teams can start after
this time and will probably start working with the ideas they
pitched on their pre-
CHALLENGE forms. Not necessarily, though. They are free to go
wherever their
entrepreneurial spirits lead them! If any questions or concerns
arise, you are their go-to
person. Circa 6:00pm, follow-up with each team and remind them
to post an update and
upload 10 photos on Gumballs Facebook page / website. Keep
active and continue to
market THE CHALLENGE to the rest of campus urge people to
support the teams in
the fight against poverty!
Tuesday, November 16 (Day #2): Circa 6:00pm, follow-up with each
team and remind
them to post an update and upload 10 photos on Gumballs Facebook
page / website.
Get your campus yearbook or newspaper (or better yet, the local
town newspaper) to
follow and document some of the teams progress as they start to
implement cool ideas
for raising money or awareness!
Wednesday, November 17 (Day #3): Circa 6:00pm, follow-up with
each team and
remind them to post an update and upload 10 photos on Gumballs
Facebook page /
website. Let a team who might be struggling to raise money or
awareness of a cool idea
that might get their creative juices flowing!
Thursday, November 18 (Day #4): Circa 6:00pm, follow-up with
each team and remind
them to post an update and upload 10 photos on Gumballs Facebook
page / website.
Make sure all the team members are actively involved in some
part of their teams project
(s). Suggest ideas to boost ideas that are coming up around
you!
Friday, November 19 (Day #5): Circa 6:00pm, follow-up with each
team and remind
them to post an update and upload 10 photos on Gumballs Facebook
page / website.
Walk around passing out free gumballs to students who might need
something sweet to
chew on!
Saturday, November 20 (Day #6): Circa 6:00pm, follow-up with
each team and remind
them to post an update and upload 10 photos on Gumballs Facebook
page / website.
Proudly wear your Gumball Capital t-shirt and encourage all the
teams to do similarly!
Remind all the teams that only a little more than one day
remains in THE CHALLENGE!
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Sunday, November 21 (Day #7): The competition should officially
end at 6:00pm on
your campus. Your last big role as Outreach Coordinator is to
hold the closing ceremony.
At 6:00pm, all the teams need to be back at the pre-determined
location of the closing
ceremony with all the money raised on hand. The judges (with
your input) should all
decide on at leastthe following four prizes to award: 1. BEST
MICROFINANCE
ADVOCATE, 2. MOST MONEY RAISED, 3. MOST INNOVATIVE, and 4.
BIGGEST RISK.
Report the winning teams to Gumball Capital so the teams can get
their badges, whichall work towards awesome national prizes!
Follow-up with each team one last time and
remind them to upload 10 photos to the Gumball Facebook page /
blog for that Friday.
Monday, November 22 ONE DAY AFTER THE CHALLENGE: Congrats, youre
almost
done! Wrap up final updates, comments, and photos to the Gumball
Facebook group
and blog. Fill out the post-CHALLENGE form on the website. Get
your school paper or
entrepreneurship club to document and celebrate the past week of
chewy awesomeness
and the end of Global Entrepreneurship Week. Dont forget to stay
updated on the
status of your CHALLENGEs profits via Kiva.org and
www.gumballcapital.org.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, GUMBALLER!
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