MAD Judge

After exploring ideas to make a difference and acting as an artist to generate ideas for a solution, we next had to act as a judge to evaulate our criteria and ideas. It is important for our confidence carnival to be fun, educational, and financially feasable. The children must gain confidence and self-esteem throught their participation in our fair. The event must also appeal to children in middle school and high school of both genders.
The guest speakers, volunteers, sponsors, chidren, and families will be affected by our event. The speakers, volunteers, and sponsors will feel good about their involvment to better their community. The children will have fun and gain confidence that will lead to an improved life for many years to come. Hopefully the event will have a lasting impression on the children; we do not want to organize an event that only affects the children for that day only.
Our objective is to show disabled children that they are "normal" and just as good as everyone else. We want to encourage these children that they can accomplish anything they want and they shouldn't be discouraged because of a disability. A drawback of our idea is our need for these children to attend. Our idea will be ineffective if disabled children and famililes do not choose to attend. To ensure this doesn't happen, we will work hard to get the word out about the confidence carnival. As long as people want to attend, which our celebrity guest speakers will encourage, the chance of success is high. The timing is right for our idea since their is always a need for a program that caters to the needs of the disabled. Unfortunatly, there will always be disabled and sick children, so the sooner we impliment this program, the more good we can do. We plan on implementing this event next spring, which gives us about 1 year to organize, enlist volunteers, and implement. We are assuming that volunteers will help, celebrities and athletes will volunteer to speak, children will attend, sponsors will donate money, and/or we receive government grants. If any of these elements fall through, the event could fail.
We are confident that our confidence carnival will work because children look up to their hero's such as athletes and miss delaware. Having these "hero's" at our event to encourage children will be very effective. Similar charity events that have athletes and celebrities visit sick children in their hospital room have been effective. We will know our event has been a success when attendence increases every year and the children who attend the event make more friends, get better grades in school, experience less bullying, become leaders, and live a happier life. We can gather these records by attendence records, school transcripts, bullying reports by schools, and feedback from parents whose children attended the event. If we are able to make a difference in the lives of disabled children, our vision will be accomplished.