Gold Award Girl Scout Revamps Eisenhower Orchestra Communication
Wichita, Kan. — Seeing how difficult it was for students and families to find important information about orchestra activities, Grace Kallman created her Girl Scout Gold Award project, “Eisenhower Orchestra Communication Revamp.” Grace noticed that the Tigers in Harmony Boosters Club website for Eisenhower orchestras was disorganized, contained outdated information, and sometimes caused students and parents to miss important announcements or performance dates.
To address this issue, Grace reorganized and redesigned the website to make it easier to navigate and keep updated. She also created welcome sheets and materials outlining class expectations and performance dates. She recruited her bandmates to assist her in producing instructional videos to help students with skills like tuning instruments and involved them in testing the functionality of the new website. Impressed with the functionality of the redesigned website, the band director agreed to create a student webmaster position within the band who will maintain the website using the troubleshooting guides that Grace developed.
Through her project, Grace helped improve communication within the orchestra program, allowing teachers to spend more class time making music while helping students and families stay informed and engaged.
