Hi Go-Team! Thank you for such a fantastic week. Now that you’ve had a couple of days to think over the experience, we’d love for you to share one last reflection on the experience. As always, feel free to write whatever you want. Here are some optional prompts to get you started:
- Your ad-making experience. What issue(s) did you and/or your team focus on? Where you for or against it, and how did you decide which side/issue to go with? How did working on the ad change your perspective on the issue itself?
- Did you take the iSideWith Quiz? (Thanks to Jasen for linking to that!) What do you think of your results? What about the questions they asked? What did you learn about yourself and your political leanings from this quiz? What other sort of political personality quizzes might be cool?
- If you had an extra day/week/month for Go-Team, what would you want to do? Would you stick with the elections them, or choose another–and if the later, what theme(s) would you want to explore. Have fun with this–we might use this feedback to plan future Go-Teams!
- Do you think you’d like to work in politics—either as an elected official, or even as a poll worker, political consultant, ad agent, a legislative staffer, etc.? How did this weeks experience change how you thought about political careers? The Hill, a reality show that follows the inner working of a U.S. Congressman’s office, offers a glimpse into the lives of real-world Congressional staffers–young people just a little older than you who make up the backbone of the Washington D.C. political industry. Check out this hilarious/really honest cartoon, So you want to be a political operative, too. What do you think of these perspectives?
- General wrap-up. Congratulations on finishing the program! What connections and/or contradictions did you see between the past three days–like between what you learned at the Board of Elections, and what various panelists had to say. Overall, what did you like/not like/found most thought provoking/etc.
- Anything else you’d like to learn or get involved with? We’re putting together a resource page on the blog. You all already made some great suggestions about what to include, like 270toWin.com (electoral college map), iSideWith.com (political preference quiz), and VoteSmart (in-depth, customized info on candidates/issues/elections). Feel free to let us know if there’s anything else that would be useful to you.
