District YA Programs 

 

 

Teen Tech Week 2009 :  

Book Trailers!

 

Hunger Games-- TC YAAB

 

 

Looking Glass Wars-- WD YAAB

 

 

Ender's Game-- VA YAAB

 

 

Cut-- CP YAAB

 

 

Mock Printz 2009: Click the link for more info!

 

FVRL's Mock Printz 2009 Results:

 

Mock Printz Winner

• The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

Mock Printz Honor Books

• Madapple by Christina Meldrum
• Hunger Games by Susanne Collins

 

For more info about the event or the real Printz winners, check out Jen's Blog

 

 Teen Tech Week 2008: So You Think Your Robot Can Dance?

 

**This is the first year FVRL has hosted any district-wide TTW programs**

 

What went well:

• 5 branches participated: TC, VA, BG, RI, WS (White Salmon did one with their outreach program and one with their YAAB)
• Program was appropriate for a variety of ages and interesting to boys and girls
• Relatively inexpensive
• Investment is reusable (the robot itself)
• While it was a district program, the projects themselves happened locally

 

What could have been better:

• More branches participating (but truly, I was please to see 5 were interested)
• Offering a video editing workshop to teens who didn't have expereince with it
• Start planning in December instead of January for ease of advertising

 

 

The Winner was TC's YAAB group!

 

 

Other fabulous entries include:

 

Vancouver:

 

 

White Salmon:

 

 

White Salmon/Henkle Middle School:

 

 

Battle Ground:

 

 

Ridgefield:

 

 

 

Stories That Make You LOL 2007

**This year, the fall writing contest had a humorous theme.  In previous years, this contest was known as Tales of Terror**

 

What went well:

• District-Wide participation
• Positive feedback from patrons, media specialists, and library staff about the topic change
• Smooth judging procedure with a variety of judges from different branches and departments
• Two celebration parties (TC and WS hosted) well attended despite conflicting community events
• All prize winners but one were able to attend a party to receive their prizes
• Winners brought teachers and family members to see them receive their awards

 

 

What could have been better:

• Notice to schools further in advance, possibly even with TSR info for better planning
• More promotion from the branch level-- some branch staff has volunteered to personally take info into the schools

 

 

 

 

 YAAB Games 2007

 

Sack Race & Head on Bat Event Videos

 

    

 

 

What went well:

• Collaboration between VA, VM, BG, TC, CP branch staff
• Well attended by teens from various areas of Clark County: 74 teens!
• Teens on probation helped set up (for service hours) and stayed to participate in games
• Teens enjoyed the games and the BBQ
• Teens from outlying branches rode to event in library vehicle: this enabled teens without a ride to participate
• Dogtag "souvenirs" let staff see which teens had not registered; teens seemed to really like them

 

What we needed:

• Better organization on the day of the event
• Clear assignments for staff and teen volunteers
• Bullhorn for announcements

 

For more photos check out FVRL's YA Flickr account or the YA MySpace Page

 

 

Tales of Terror 2006

 

What went well:

• district-wide participation
• many creative entries
• fun group of various library employees gathered to judge
• well attended celebration party that introduced the teens to our new video game equipment

 

What we needed:

• there were many more Vancouver participants, better advertising for other areas needed
• party mostly attended by Vancouver or nearby teens... many winners from other areas did not come to collect their prize due to distance

 

 

 

              Prize winning Tales of Terror authors! (photo taken by Anni Cothern)

                         To see more ToT 2006 photos, go to YA's Flickr page.

 

Did you participate in any of these past YA programs?  If so, click edit page, add your thoughts, and then save!

 

Battle of the Bands

 

YAAB Games 2006

 

Backlight Film Festival

 

 

Past Program Statistics

These can be found on the Yakima server by doing this:

 

•   Click the start button on your toolbar 
•   Select run
•   Type \\yakima and enter
•   Select the folder "Statistics-internal only"
•   Choose the "Distric Programs" folder
•   Select "Teen District Programs"
•   Click on YA Program Statistics