Volunteer Opportunities for YOU!
Band CampJuly 22-26 2024 Signup by July 18
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 4:30 pm), serving the children, and cleaning up afterwards.
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Tag DayAugust 24 2024
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 Panera Bread 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 |
Home Concessions / Home Events
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September 7, 2024
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August - November 2024
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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 requires 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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Volunteers - Away Events
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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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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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All- County/All-District Band Auditions |
Spring Trip |
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CLOSED
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CLOSED
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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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