Volunteer Opportunities for YOU!
Band CampCLOSED
Assist purchasing, preparing, and cooking a meal(s) during band camp evenings for the kids. We establish themed nights in our Sign-Up Genius to assist you for each evening, which includes transporting the meal to the school during dinnertime (around 5pm), serving the children, and cleaning up afterwards.
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Tag DayCLOSED
Our largest fundraiser. All band students will travel through Forge-districted neighborhoods in their uniforms to engage with the community and seek their financial support of our band program. We rely on parent volunteers to use specific routes already developed by the Boosters to drive students around the neighborhoods. This is a really big financial fundraiser for the band program. Look for a Sign-Up Genius. Additionally, we partner with fast food establishments to host a spirit night (% of proceeds from each food purchase are deposited for the Boosters) in the evening following the completion of the day's events. This year, it is Chipotle for families off route 17 and exit 133 (near Target) and Sweet Frog off exit 140 or 143, for families in that area.
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Mattress Sale |
Concessions |
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Fall Fridays (Varsity) Various Times during the Week (JV)
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Another large fundraiser. A private company performs a majority of the work, setting up mattresses and bedding in our school cafeteria and sells them to the community. The organizer will speak to parents during the August and September General Membership meeting for more information. Commitment only quires some parents and students to hold signs on street corners adjacent to Forge High School for a few hours on the day of the event.
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Another big fundraiser. Parents are needed to help set-up the concession stand ahead of the start time of the football games, run the concession stand during the game, and help take down, and count money, after the game.
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Chaperones - Away GamesMost Saturdays End of August - Beginning of November
We like to have parents maintain constant oversight of the students, ride the school buses with the band directors, and assist students during events with any needs or requests, and ensure overall order.
Props - FallJuly - October
Help develop the props for the marching band show. While the school is helping build the props for marching band, parent volunteers are needed to assist in creating and building props to meet the Band Director's needs.
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Chaperones - Home GamesMost Fridays End of August - Beginning of November
We like to have parents maintain constant oversight of the students and assist students during events with any needs or requests, and ensure overall order.
Props - WinterNovember - March
Help develop the props for the winter color guard and/or drumline show. Parent volunteers are needed to assist in creating and building props to meet the Band Director's needs.
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Pit Crew - Fall |
Pit Crew - Winter |
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Late August - Early November
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Most Saturdays in February - March
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Pit handles the logistics of loading all the instruments, transporting them, unloading them at the site, loading them back on, and then unloading them for the students back at the high school for home and away football games and all competitions.
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Pit handles the logistics of loading all the instruments, transporting them, unloading them at the site, loading them back on, and then unloading them for the students back at the high school for all competitions. Look for a Sign-up Genius.
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Hospitality - Home Games |
Hospitality - Away Games |
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Most Fridays in August - October
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Most Saturdays in August - October
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The marching band performs at all home football games (Fridays). It is critical we have an organized way to feed the children and order food from the concession stand ahead of time and deliver it to them during football games.
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The marching band performs at competitions around Virginia (Saturdays). It is critical we have an organized way to feed the children or request food for students to bring to the school on their arrival for marching band events (Saturdays) and for parents to package and drive the food to the show, set-up, serve, take down, and help drive back.
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Band Together to Fight Hunger
November 6, 2023
Stafford County hosts an annual event where each school showcases their competition as a group, with the proceeds going to charity. Each high school asks for parent support to help make this event a success at Mountain View High School.
All- County/All-District Band Auditions |
Spring Trip |
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Monday December 4 & Saturday December 9, 2023
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ASAP
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Colonial Forge hosts both assessments, minimizing travel for our students and enabling them to play at their home high school. Parents are needed to help sign-in participants, escort them to the correct scoring rooms for judging, and assist judges in scoring rooms in December.
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Students enjoy going on an annual trip together to Disney World and/or Universal Studios. While this has been a tradition, we have not been able to travel for the past few years due to COVID and conflicting schedules with the school and music calendar. It is a tremendous amount of planning with the destination site, bus companies, hotels, school schedules, and payment, that we really need one person devoted to planning this effort, and starting very soon, due to scheduling time with Disney and/or Universal Studios. If you are able to lead this effort, it would be greatly appreciated, or, work with someone else to do so. The Board will keep these personnel up-to-date on available dates.
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