APPLING FAMILY CONNECTION AND ITS PARTNERS BRING YOU…THE
INTERACTIVE TEEN MAZE 2012!!
Appling County Family
Connection (local churches, agencies, business, law
enforcement) and the Appling County School System are
pleased to bring you the Interactive Teen Maze!
The Teen Maze is a life-sized interactive “game”
that students will advance through by “chance”. During the
Maze the students do not have a choice about the decisions
that they “make” regarding sexual involvement or drugs
/alcohol use–but rather they will draw cards, roll dice, or
spin a wheel to learn the “good or bad news”. Students who
draw cards that say they’ve avoided sexual involvement are
“rewarded”; others learn the potential consequences of sex:
loss of freedom, medical problems, pregnancy, adoption,
abortion (this information will be provided by We Care
Crisis Pregnancy center staff), STD’s, and possibly
death from HIV/AIDS. We will also have potential
consequences from drinking at a party such as arrest, jail,
probation, or death from drinking and driving. Since paths
are randomly assigned, no two students will have the same
experience (much as in real life!). In this game, students
are victims of chance and must experience whatever
happens to them-but, of course, in real life they have
choices to make!
This event is designed to heighten awareness and
provoke thought regarding some important decisions that our
students have to make. Students will be encouraged to learn
from their peers’ experiences in the Maze and to discuss
their experiences with their parents. The goal
is graduation with an abstinence and no alcohol/drugs
message throughout!!!
Please allow your student to participate in this event
provided free to your student through community
collaboration! We have over 70 volunteers per day helping
with this event!
We
will only be open until 4:00pm each day! We will be
targeting 8th and 10th grades again
this year! 8th grade on 2/21 and 10th
grade on 2/22.
Please support this event which has great evaluation results
reported by students, staff and our volunteers. We will have
parent preview night on 2/20 from 5:00pm to 5:45pm.
If
you have any questions or concerns please contact Amy
Rediger, Executive Director of Family Connection at
367-8816.
