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S1 E11 - Prom Formalwear Drive Feat. Nate Modjeski · Inside the OSD

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  SPEAKER1: Today on Inside the OSD, we have a fun topic: Prom.
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  Our Oregon High School Student council members are preparing for prom and have come up with a great idea for making sure classmates have access to formalwear
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  for prom. You're going to want to listen up to this one, especially if you have formal wear sitting around that you're not using.
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  SPEAKER2: Welcome to this episode of Inside the OSD podcast, where it's all about the kids.
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  Here is your host, lifelong educator, and our superintendent, Dr.
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  Leslie Bergstrom.
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  SPEAKER3: I'm here at Oregon High School with one of our student council members, Nate Modjeski.
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  Nate, welcome to Inside the OSD.
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  We're excited to have you on our podcast and know this is going to be a popular topic.
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  So could you start by introducing yourself and your role on student council to our listeners?
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  SPEAKER4: Yeah, thank you. I'm the class representative for the junior class of the Oregon Student Council, and we're organizing a dress drive right now.
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  SPEAKER3: Very nice. So juniors are the class that put on prom.
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  I think that if any of us have been to high school in America, we know that.
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  So you're preparing for prom and how is the planning been going?
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  SPEAKER4: It's been good. They started pretty early.
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  It's in May, so we got lots of time ahead of us.
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  We just had a meeting during lunch the other day where they pick out playlists and songs and getting kind of a theme established for prom.
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  SPEAKER3: Oooh, what's the theme?
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  SPEAKER4: We've got a couple different options.
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  One is Parisian themed.
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  Um, I think another one was just like nighttime themed, all like dark navy colors.
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  And there are a couple of different options.
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  SPEAKER3: Very nice. So is there anything you can share that was decided recently or, you know, is it really all pretty much up in the air other than the date?
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  And when is that?
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  SPEAKER4: It is mostly up in the air, but May 13th is locked down.
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  I'm pulling for Paris theme, though.
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  Are you? That'd be cool.
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  SPEAKER3: Yes, Parisian theme.
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  That's always fun.
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  Where is it going to be?
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  SPEAKER4: It's going to be in downtown Madison at the same venue as last year.
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  It's kind of tough to get a reservation now, but -- It is!
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  SPEAKER3: It is. But it worked very well.
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  I believe it was in on the Park last year, right?
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  Yeah, very nice.
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  So there's a ton of preparations that go into hosting the prom, right?
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  Getting it all together.
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  But attending the prom, there's a lot that goes into that, too.
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  And the biggest thing is probably, what are you going to wear?
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  So student council is helping with this by holding a formal wear drive, which is really cool.
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  So tell me how you came up with this great idea.
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  SPEAKER4: Well, it came from Anna Gavin and Ms.
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  Kuehl. They told us, "Hey, we want to figure out a way for more students to get their hands on formalwear and dresses that maybe can't afford them or are
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  looking for a more sustainable option." And we took it from there and talked and talked and talked about it and kind of hammer it out what we've got going
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  now. Well, how does it work?
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  SPEAKER3: How and when will students go shopping?
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  How do you donate and then how do you shop?
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  SPEAKER4: So for the rest of this week, there will be collection boxes in the front office at OHS and in student services where people can come, bring their pants, dress
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  shirts, clothes, dresses, shoes, the whole nine yards come drop them off in those boxes.
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  And at the end of the week, when I pick them all up and put them away for Saturday the 11th and put all of them out in the gym on a big display that
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  people can come walk through.
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  SPEAKER3: Are there any other places other than the school you can drop it off?
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  Or really, is the school the only place?
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  SPEAKER4: They'll be boxes, hopefully at Kickback and Firefly by the end of the week.
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  SPEAKER3: Oh well that'll be really convenient for people.
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  That's nice. And I love that it's dresses, but also that it's all formalwear because people may choose to wear a variety of things.
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  And I think that a lot of young people who wore pants probably, you know, you wear them one year or the next year, you want to do something different.
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  You're never going to wear these fancy pants again.
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  So, I mean, it works for everybody.
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  SPEAKER4: Exactly. And you can pay it forward and come find clothes for yourself and pass on pass on the stuff that doesn't fit anymore.
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  SPEAKER3: I absolutely love it.
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  So I know that there are people who want to help.
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  Is there anything other than donation, anything that anybody can do?
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  Donating would be awesome because I think so many of us have closets with, if nothing else, for the adults who have classes with your children's prom dresses
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  or formalwear in them.
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  So I can think of several things I can donate right now.
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  But other than donation, is there any other way to help?
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  SPEAKER4: I'd say reach out to your friends.
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  Get, get -- do the collection for us.
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  Grab those dresses. Come drop them all off for us.
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  Um, I think that that really helps.
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  SPEAKER3: Very nice.
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  So what's up next for student council?
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  What other projects do you have coming up?
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  SPEAKER4: Well, we're working on really hammering out prom, first of all.
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  Everybody's focused on that.
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  And then we'll be starting our new class projects pretty soon featuring -- this is kind of insider information, I guess, but featuring puppy yoga.
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  One of those days we're going to have a -- yeah, figure out an event where people can do yoga with puppies to kind of promote a healthy mindset.
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  SPEAKER3: Well, I absolutely love that.
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  But who are you going to do puppy yoga with?
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  Is that the Dane County Humane Society or how do they do it?
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  SPEAKER4: I guess that's kind of TBD, but there are other projects going on with them that we might be able to collaborate.
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  SPEAKER3: That is very fun.
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  So thank you so much for your time today.
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  Yeah. We know you came in extra early for the podcast today and have a full day ahead of you, so we appreciate your time.
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  We will be excited to hear more about the formalwear drive and the big evening as plans move forward.
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  If you have formalwear items to donate, you can take them to the Firefly Coffeehouse, Kickback Cafe, or the Oregon High School main office.
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  The deadline for donating items is this Friday, March 10th.
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  Remember, you can find links to all episodes of Inside the OSD and submit topic ideas
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  SPEAKER1: on our website at OregonSD.org/podcast.
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