Friday, March 8, 2013

Adopt -A-Hydrant Youtube Video!



Here is a video I, Jude have made to inspire youtubers to adopt-a-hydrant which would be awesome! We uploaded it to youtube because hundreds of thousands of people use it everyday. {Including me}. So this video may have a one in a million chance of going viral but it campaigns our idea.

Thursday, March 7, 2013

FAME!!

When we got an invitation to send a press release to  MinnPost, the online newspaper, we said "Y-E-S!"  So we gave them the info they needed.  And they publish this article about us.

Friday, March 1, 2013

Hydrant E-Mail

We posted on our community list serve a link to this blog.  We got several nice emails in return, and saw a lot more activity on the blog!

Hoppity Hats Facebook Page

We have made a Facebook page that our parents can share.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Flyers And QR Code

We've made flyers and even manged to get a QR code on them!  So far we've hung them at school, and handed them out to neighbors at a community dinner and at a St. Anthony Park School Association meeting.           

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Sam's Note and Article

Dear Mr. Palazzolo:


My name is Sam Skinner, one of the members of the Hoppity Hats, the group you visited recently. Thank you for the interview. I am sending you an article about the Adopt A Hydrant program, and it has been thoroughly edited. We were wondering if you could ask about including the article in MinnPost. We would love it if you could. If there are any parts that need tweaking, that is fine by us. We also included some pictures if those would be useful (names for group photo: Gunnar Jacobson, Sam Skinner, Alexander Kamenov, Soren Sackreiter, Milo Fleming, Jude Breen, and Ian Culver).

                            From, The Hoppity Hats


The Hoppity Hats, a Destination Imagination (DI) team at St. Anthony Park Elementary School, wants YOU to help the community by maintaining access to fire hydrants. The 3rd grade DI team focuses on encouraging people to adopt a fire hydrant by going to http://adoptahydrant.opentwincities.org/. Where the weather is wacky, like Minnesota, hydrants get covered in snow and become difficult to access. According the St. Paul Fire Department, it takes 5-6 minutes to dig out a snow-covered hydrant. Fires can double every 30 seconds. That means a fire can double 10-12 times in the amount of time it takes to dig out a hydrant.

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If you are interested in adopting a hydrant, go to http://adoptahydrant.opentwincities.org/. Once you log on, find a hydrant or two near your home and adopt it! Then, you can name your hydrant. The website will e-mail you after snowfalls to remind you to clear your hydrant. There are about 18,360 fire hydrants in the Twin Cities. Fewer than 100 of them are adopted. Now let`s go help the community!

                                                                                                                

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Talk With Alan

We got to interview Alan Palazzolo, the creator of the Adopt a Hydrant web site for the Twin Cities.  He's a cool guy and is glad that we are sharing his website and asking people to Adopt a Hydrant.  Here he is: