What a Take Action Project CAN look like!

For her Gold Award project, Rebecca created a website for orchestra music inventory among middle schools in Northern New Jersey. The site lists all the sheet music each school orchestras had on hand and the contact information for the schools’ music directors.

"An orchestra cannot play all the music in their music library at once," said Rebecca. "So if a school wanted to work on a piece but did not have the funding to purchase the music, they can use my website to see which towns have the music and contact that school’s music director to borrow it."

Rebecca’s website currently has more than 1,000 titles that can be borrowed for full orchestras, string orchestras and chamber ensembles. (from the GSUSA blog 6-1-12)

YES!  This is Gold Award Project quality!  Rebecca identified a need and discovered the root cause of the need.  I'm assuming that she gathered a team to help her inventory and sort all the music.  So, she used her leadership. She also used skills in working with other adults:  contacting all the schools, getting lists, maybe verifying the actual score availability.

I'm also assuming that she created sustainability by handing the website inventory over to the school district? a teacher?  music director? who will add new music in.  Also, perhaps she created a way to have the music come back to the right school.  Maybe she found a group on campus to do a yearly inventory/update as part of their service club hours?  Or perhaps her orchestra as HS has taken on that role?

I can only hope!