 Ready, Set, Design a T-Shirt
Goal:
- To raise awareness of the tobacco industry and how they try to seduce teens into becoming smokers and how many people die from using their products.
Target Audience:
Overview of Event:
- Set up a display that gives students information about how the tobacco industry tries to hook them, money they get from lifetime smokers, reason the industry needs to go after youth, and some of the quotes they wish we didn’t find out about. Challenge students to use this new found information to make a design for a t-shirt and can be put on t-shirts. Put up designs for a few days and get students to vote on the best design.
- Turn it into a t-shirt and have them printed up. Winner is given two t-shirts. The rest are distributed to students who bring in a donation for the food bank or other charity (for schools with uniforms, the t-shirt could qualify as a uniform shirt as long as students bring a donation).
Tools Required:
- Materials to make posters;
- Source out supplier for t-shirts and printing of winning design;
- Display materials of tobacco industry facts (your Public Health Nurse Liaison may be able to help with posters, banners, etc);
- Handouts/treats for students who stop by and sign up for contest or who vote for winning design;
- Organizing committee could make their own individual t-shirt designs and with a computer turn them into iron on transfers to give other students ideas.
The Process:
- Get materials for display;
- Choose a day and decide who will staff the display at different lunch periods;
- Set up judging committee or method that allows all students to pick the winning design;
- Put up posters to promote the display day and t-shirt design contest;
- Announce winners via display or announcements;
- Invite media to do a story/photo on the winning design and if they don’t come, submit a picture and information directly to the paper via email or drop off;
- Document results – how many students reached, impact, feedback.
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