Our project will be addressing life skills training programs that do nothing but encourage ennui in the students they address. We hope that by making a life skills seminar fun, we grab more students into listening to our message. Homework Hangout will be serving as the organizational litmus test to our project. Purpose of the Project Many schools and after-school programs nationwide promote training of their students in life skills. What many administrators forget, however, is that life skills training does not have to be boring.
Many presenters often ignore the yawns and sighs of the audience.
The message, of course, is the most important part of the program, but a message covered in a blanket of bland is not going to get through to students. Boredom of the program and the message could conceivably lead to apathy of the entire subject. Becoming apathetic to the side effects of drug use or AIDS prevention leads to unsafe practices and an epidemic of these problems. Our group intends to compile and implement such a program at Homework Hangout in Decatur. Homework Hangout is an after school program that has served nearly 1000 students since its inception in 1993.