2011 - October 8, Family Field Day
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Event Captains
Emily Yang (epyang@mit.edu)
Victor Hung (vhung@mit.edu)
Location and Time
Saturday, October 8th, 2011
2-4 pm (ran until about 4:30 or 5)
Kresge BBQ Pits
Description
ATS hosts Family Field Day a couple weeks after pairing Big and Little Sibs together so that families have a chance to have fun and bond with each other. Families compete against each other for first, second, and third place. Prizes are awarded!
Events
- ATS Bingo
- Print out bingo sheets and bring pencils
- Encourage mingling
- Rat Tails
- Reuse shirt strips stored in Student Center storage
- Can get a little rough... people were tackling opponents
- Jelly Eating Contest
- Provide equal number of jellies to each family (we bought 4 buckets and each family got 20)
- Need to clarify rules about swallowing before feeding to next person. Maybe use spies from other families to monitor?
- Human Knot
- Large families are severely disadvantaged, so not really fair... it went very quickly for some and not so quickly for others
- Pastry Eating Relay
- Purchased 25 pastries from Bao Bao the day before and picked up the morning of
- Each family sends 3 representatives and they each get a pastry to eat relay style
- Consider providing water (cups, couple of gallon jugs of water) during this event... people were... having difficulties
- Tug-of-War
- Need better, more consistent way to mark crossing lines on each side (we used rat tails)
- Plan out bracket beforehand! Had trouble deciding who should compete for third place
- Red light/Green light 3 legged race
- Victor's fun experiment
- Limit the number of pairs for each family (it got too crazy)
- Use rat tails to tie legs together (location of tying: thigh or ankle?)
- Hard to hear
- Water balloon toss
- Buy regular balloons and not water balloons because they hold more water and survive longer... until they unexpectedly pop on you
- Fill about 50 balloons (or enough for half the attendees) and some extra so people can have fun at the end
- Have this event last so people don't slip on wet grass
Attendance
~60-70 people
Total of 6 families participated. We combined 2 smaller families together and distributed orphans accordingly to try to even people out. The differences in family sizes increased because people started leaving in the middle of the event.
Prizes
- 1st place: 2 large boxes of Hello Panda + 1 bag of gummies
- 2nd place: 1 large pack of Pocky + 2 bags of gummies
- 3rd place: 2 bags of gummies
Other Notes
- A megaphone was surprisingly necessary
- Bring trash bags and tell people to collect their trash!
- Allow for water breaks or buy water next time
