Recent Activities
October 30, 2017
Students gave back to the community via a spooky Halloween event Monday along with other clubs and sports teams at the high school. Our group decorated cookies and educated children about the dangers of candy-flavored tobacco products.
October 27, 2018
Olivia and Laney spent their day off of school picking up cigarette butts at Franklin parks. We collected a whole container full! Thanks for making our environment a little more beautiful, ladies!
Today we put together the Red Ribbon Week bookmarks. Congrats to Liv Banach for creating the winnings bookmark designs! We also had several new members join us to help with stickering the candy. On October 13th, we attended the FHS football game to pass out candy and red ribbons for families to tie around trees. Even the school mascot came to help at our table! We also put a message in the fence that said: FACT: Addiction isn't sweet. by our table AND created Red Ribbon Week hashtag for people to use during the game.
Students stuck stickers on candy reading "candy flavored tobacco is a trick, not a treat" and decorated the cafeteria doors with FACT's messages about the dangers of candy-flavored tobacco. The door will be up the month of October. Students passed out the candy after school on October 19th. We also decorated a door with directions about the Red Ribbon Week door decorating contest at the middle school.
Students wrote chalk messages on the sidewalk after school about tobacco prevention and FACT.
FYI members Laney, Olivia O, Alayn, Liv B, Justin, Shreya, Bella, and Kylee attend the Brewer game with other local FACT groups to celebrate FACT's Sweet 16th Birthday and a tobacco-free Miller Park. We had so much fun meeting other people with our same interests and spreading the truth about tobacco with the FACT Banner, a message on the score board, posting to social media, and signing a FACT thank you card to be sent to the Brewers. Laney and Shreya also wore their FACT shirts to the game! The best part was a Brewer Win!
FYI hosted an outdoor movie night, featuring La La Land, with games and the premier of their commercial made by Bryce Tome. About 100 community members attended the event. All had a fun time watching the movie under the stars.
On World No Tobacco Day FYI students Liv, Jacob, Shreya, and Hali did a Human Billboard with Greendale FACT students spreading the truth about tobacco. Our sign said "Wishin' You a Smoke-Free Summer". We did the human billboard over Loomis Rd where many cars frequently travel. We had lots of positive "honks" from passing cars.
FYI students had a blast at Relay for Life May 19th. We had a group of 10 who participated in the event. FYI had a table with a lollipop tree and out tobacco/candy look-alike boards. We shared with other students at Relay how tobacco products look similar to candy, then they could choose a sucker off the tree. We also had matching FACT t-shirts for the event sharing how students could decrease their risk for cancer by never using tobacco. We also attempted our first run at Stick it to em by clipping the clips to other students walking around the track. We had a bit of participation with other people passing them on and coming to our booth asking about FACT.
Ishika and Liv made FACT chalk messages that spread the truth about tobacco at the OFF 5K Run/Walk Saturday. About 175 people ran in the race. with their families.
