On Friday, February 22, 2013 12:03:35 AM UTC-5, Sean F (F2) wrote:

PS...if you want kids in soaring, where are the pictures, video's, camps, parties, events with soaring kids in the USA? Kids love adults but REALLY LOVE OTHER KIDS! Who is going to the upcoming Jr. Worlds from the USA? Where is the website? What kids recently soloed? Where are these stories? Oh... that's in the BACK of the SSA magazine huh? Hmmm?

My club has a program where 'kids' perform 'chores' in exchange for flying lessons (and tows).

One of these chores is 'maintain club website'.

It comes as no surprise that a bright 15 year old who has been surfing the web since he was 4.5 years old is incredibly effective at creating web-based content. Making the right moves on the web comes naturally to the talented young.

My suggestion would be to pay a team of 'kid glider pilots' in tow coupons, and let them run the SSA web-based recruitment campaign (to recruit both kids and adults). Maybe get a young adult pilot (less than 25 years old) to oversee the 'creative team'. The team can be web-connected and scattered all over the country (world?)

With this approach, any money that we invest in web based recruitment, buys tows for young pilots. Two birds, one stone.