A few friendly reminders!

Orientation will be June 8, 7 p.m. at the Holiday Inn-Airport, 6111 Fleur Dr., Des Moines. We are in the Westview Room. Please just bring your luggage with you to the room. We will go over the week’s schedule, rules, etc. The parents are dismissed at 7:30 p.m. From there we will do some ice breaker games and initiate the creations of the Snack Cooperative. Lights out at 10 p.m.! We will spend the night at the hotel.

I have been loading our schedule onto our app. We have partnered with Grupio to provide a free app for Iowa Youth Tour participants. You can download the mobile app and access information about our event from the convenience of your phone. Access the schedule, speakers, cooperative lists, etc

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iPhone - Search for Grupio in the App Store

Android - Search for Grupio in the Android Market 

Once you have the app downloaded you can search for “Iowa Youth Tour 2017” from the menu.

New this year! During Iowa Youth Tour 2017 the students will be forming and running their own cooperative, which will provide snacks for Iowa’s Youth Tour participants. This project is educational, practical and accomplishes two things. First, it provides snacks at reasonable prices and second, it teaches everyone about starting and operating a cooperative and being a co-op “member owner.”

The co-op will be very similar to electric cooperatives or other local member-owned cooperatives, but on a much smaller scale. The main difference is that this co-op will provide snacks for the members (Youth Tour students and chaperones) while on the trip.

ALL STUDENTS: BY JUNE 1 - Please go to this link and rank your interest in each of the Snack Cooperative position. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JFBXVXJ

We’d like all student (and parents too!) to take a minute and watch this presentation. We are passionate about the cooperative business model and we want to share our enthusiasm with you, so we put this short Prezi together.

Students! You never know, there might be a prize for those that can answer some co-op questions while we are touring around DC!

Please watch! https://prezi.com/0betqgm5ug2w/cooperative-101-iowa-youth-tour/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

 

Please follow up on social media! We will post all of the photo we tack each day on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/IowaYouthTour?ref=hl). If you are not a member of the 2017 Youth Tour Facebook group, you (students and parents) are welcome to join! https://www.facebook.com/groups/350435298667202/?ref=bookmarks

Twitter: We will be tweeting while in D.C. Our handle is @IowaYouthTour

Instagram: iowayouthtour

Snapchat: iowayouthtour

And, finally, while in DC, I use a simple texting app to send out reminders and messages. You can subscribe to it by simply text yt17 to 72466 and you will be added to the group. Message and data rates may apply.