Yesterday, Friday, April 25, the SADD Act Out Loud officers, Ashley, Adrienne, Dahlia and myself along with our sponsor Ms. Dallas adventured out and spent the field trip day promoting our campaign. First we gathered our belongings from school, and visited the Coral Springs Police Department. After signing in, we met with Serg. Bruce Kolowski who led us upstairs to the third floor and we followed him into a police classroom where meetings are held. We introduced ourselves to the group of Resource Officers and other officials, and informed them of our project. After our introduction we asked informative interview questions based on Teen Safety. Each gave a very well informed response. We concluded the event there with asking the officers to sign pledge cards which will "inspire the teens of today to be safe drivers of tomorrow" and also giving them a thank you basket for their effort to talk to us and keeping teens safe on the road. After the five of us went out for a very nice lunch, and then went to our next stop. Located just beyond the "CORAL SPRINGS" welcoming sign was a "Drive Safely" sign where a victim had past away due to a auto mobile collision. We put flowers, balloons, and stuffed animals there to show SADD's respect and mourning of the passing. With little time to spare we were on our way to North Broward Hospital where we were soon due to attend a meeting. As we arrived on time, Sharon Holmes, Trauma Director of North Broward Medical Center, led us from the main welcome hall, we were taken VIP to a "classroom" that was set very welcoming to our attendance. We were given various pamphlets regarding teen safety behind the wheel and trauma resulting pamphlets. We were also given DVD's about being behind the wheel, and many important information. As we sat down a TV was playing a HBO recorded segment about teen trauma effecting after having a cause of a auto mobile collision. The video was very deep feeling, which made me think that EVERY school. middle and high, should show this video to have students truly aware that being behind the wheel of a car is very serious and should not be taken for granted. After the 6 trauma staff members, including Ms. Holmes arrived to be interviewed by us, we were able to really get valuable information from each person. We were then taken on a tour of a trauma exam room that was not currently being used, and also we were able to check out the paramedics vehicle. WHAT A DAY, so many great things did we learn, and we were able to get our whole experience recorded, in hope to have students not only in our school but as many schools in the county see the experience we had in hope they can take advantage and choose the right path of being safe while driving.
Well that's all for now,
Joeyism signing off in 5.....4....3...2..1. *off to research*
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