Another YouTube video

One thing we did in our club. After drifting up and
down between 60 - 90 members, (mostly down for the
last 10 years and including just two women), we halved
the initiation fee and put on a campaign to attract
new members -- flyers sent to registered airplane pilots
in our area, and a couple of other things. We've had
an influx of 22 new members and 5 of them are young
women! I don't know how that happened because they
were not pilots. They are highschool age, college
age, and one young mother. Don't discount serendipity,
but don't count on it either!

At 21:36 14 August 2007, Vsoars wrote:
On Aug 14, 3:07 pm, Sally W
wrote:
At 14:54 14 August 2007, Bill Daniels wrote:




However, I do agree that there is a 'critical mass'
for attracting women and
youth. I'm sure being the only one present is uncomfortable

My own background includes doing science at school
(mostly male), working in a mainly male industry (IT),
and a lot of single-handed dinghy racing (also mostly
male) so it wasn't usually a problem for me but that
is probably unusual.

Of course once I'd got hooked (about 30 seconds after
1st launch - I got hooked on dinghy sailing just as
quickly, but 40 years ago!) I soon found that regardless
of age or gender we all had something in common -
we
like gliding. But it's getting through to realising
that that matters.


We have watched some great soaring videos. Now what?
The discussion
inspired me to begin the process of setting up a Web
page to serve as
a collection point for the best soaring videos. Go
to my web site and
see the ones I've imported.

www.soar.weebly.com

Please nominate videos you think I should add, and
check back as the
site evolves.

As chair of the SSA Publicity Committee, I'm looking
for good
promotional materials and people to use the materials.
Consider
joining the Promote Soaring Team. For more information,
check out the
Publicity Homepage. You can get there from the SSA
page on the SSA
web site. Click on the 'Publicity' tab.