Heads Up Eyes Forward
How many students heard the message of your project?
7000
Estimated percentage of your student body?
91-100%
Who has your project aimed to reach?
Freshman class, Sophomore class, Junior class, Senior class, School professionals, Parents, Community at large
Objective:
The objective of this year’s project is to sustain and further spread the Heads Up, Eyes Forward! safe driving message (started in 2011) and reach people beyond the state of New Jersey, with new and innovative methods.
Target Audience:
Our primary target audience is high school students that will soon be, or are already, driving. We also aim to reach drivers of all ages throughout our schools, community and beyond New Jersey.
Execution:
Magnets/ Parking Spot – The Safe Driver of the Month Parking Spot. We select one student each month at each of our four high schools, who displays our magnet on his or her car. The winning students receive the Safe Driver of the Month Premium Parking Spot at their school along with coupons and gift cards from our local business partners. Our team worked hard at the beginning of the school year to solicit numerous donations from these businesses.
PSA – We were so excited to participate again in the NJM Insurance Group’s Just Drive PSA Video Competition. This year, we created a PSA entitled “Winning Drive” and was extremely honored to win first place!
Our team also produced a Public Service Announcement focusing on distractions of social media while driving.
Social Media – We have continued to champion our cause on social media with our Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, and Tik Tok accounts.
Throughout the year, we have created over 25 new Tik Toks videos.
Our team held a Safe Driving T-Shirt contest where students in all 4 of our high schools could enter their design. We ended up having 110 entries! Students promoted the contest on the schools morning shows and message boards.
Music Video – Throughout the year, we have been working on the latest in our series of music video parodies. This year, we transformed the Frank Sinatra hit “MY WAY” into “PHONE AWAY.”
This summer Heads Up Eyes Forward got an amazing opportunity to design a graphic that was displayed on NJ Transit buses. The buses ran from mid August through September 30th.
Teamwork:
The Heads Up, Eyes Forward! team met on a daily basis throughout the year to discuss ideas, give status reports, and review videos and other media that the team was producing.
Use of resources:
Our team worked hard at the beginning of the school year to solicit numerous donations from local businesses. Our Safe Driver of the Month wins both premium parking along with coupons or gift cards. We mention them in all of our social media post.
Use of media:
Morning announcements at each of the 4 Lenape District high schools
– Reaching 7,600 students
The Lenape District’s educational access channel LDTV
– Reaching 65,000 homes on Comcast channel 19
– Reaching 40 South Jersey municipalities on Verizon FiOS channel 21
Heads Up, Eyes Forward! social media sites
YouTube: www.YouTube.com/HeadsUpEyesForward
Facebook: www.Facebook.com/HeadsUpEyesForward
Twitter: www.Twitter.com/HeadsUpEyesFWD
Instagram: www.instagram.com/headsupeyesforward
TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@headsupeyesforward
Website: www.LRHSD.org/HeadsUp
Thoroughness:
The Heads Up, Eyes Forward! campaign is able to show it’s thoroughness through the continued increase in community member and student subscribers to our social media sites. They were updated regularly with messages from Heads Up, Eyes Forward!, as well as important information from other resources.
Impact:
1. Social Media – Through our many social media pages we are able to track the growth of our followers and the impact of each post.
2. Vehicle Magnets – We were able to see the many different vehicles displaying our logo.
3. YouTube – We are able to monitor not only total views but numerous other statistics.
4. Website – We were able to track the number of visitors to our www.lrhsd.org/HeadsUp webpage.
Sustainability:
With our use of Social Media (Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Tik Tok) we are able to continue growing a fan base that we can reach on their mobile devices. Every time we post a statistic, photo or video it shows up for all of the friends of our fans, which allows us to reach a larger group each time we get a new fan.
Also, each year a new group of seniors are chosen to work on the Heads Up, Eyes Forward! project which helps to spread the message within our schools
Unexpected Lessons Learned:
A lot of our students were involved in other activities, sports and jobs. So they really had to work together to find times that worked with everyone’s schedules to get projects done. Our kids still did their best to try and get projects done.
Stipend Reporting:
Your school received a stipend to support your Champion School Teen Driving Safety Project. Additionally, any funds that you raised as a result of your project must be reinvested into transportation safety. The purpose of this report is to itemize expenditures for your project that were paid from the stipend
Shirts – $691.2
Total – $691.2
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