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MTA @ MYAN 2009

Nine students and three mentors attended the 2009 Peer Leadership Conference and the Anti-Tobacco Summit at the Civic Center in Augusta, November 9-11.

At the MYAN 'Make a Plan, Make a Change' workshop we were explaining the sixth step of an eight step process. It was 'Name Allies and Resources'. Our objective was to make a human sculpture that showed this. We then explained the importance of allies and resources when trying to solve a problem. Mckensie Gary, Interact

At the MYAN Peer Leadership Conference we made an action plan that would improve the school use of laptops. We plan on doing a research project: investigating common mis-used programs and web sites.  
Brendan Glass, SLAC

The MTA Leaders produced an Action Plan for each of the two events and then presented the plans to MYAN Review Panels. 
After we made our action plan we entered a conference room and presented our plan to a panel which gave us recommendations on what we could make better, or just let us know what they liked about it. We also listened to other action plans made by other school's members.  
Tim Holbrook, ITeam

We also converted MYAN's paper-based action planning documents into Google Docs so that we could collaborate on writing them and get feedback on our work. We learned the value of the approach on the second day of action planning when we discovered that Korin had taken notes during the presentation to the review panel and they were ready and waiting for our reflection. 

MYAN Staff (including Cory Washow and Jay Vachon, MYAN leaders of the Introduction to Action Planning) expressed interest in learning more about our process and seeing the updates to the plans as we revise the plans. This approach will help MYAN Staff to provide more effective feedback and assistance to us and to teams from other schools as they learn the value of the approach.