Welcome to Cash Society

  Today marks the first day of one of our favorite 4-H day camps, Mini-Society.  Mini- Society allows youth to create their own country, learn about government, making laws, banking and business.  Today is the day when the day campers learn to lay the ground work for great things to happen in the week coming up.
  First off was coming up with a name of their town, or society.  Each youth had the opportunity to make a drawing with a title.  Each drawing was placed on the board for consideration and the entire group voted.  Each person has two votes to cast so hopefully we do not end up with a tie of each person voting for their own effort.  Of all the choices placed before them, Cash Society, which was created by Jordan was the name chosen for their town.
  Next they needed to create their flag.  Everyone worked hard to come up with something that they thought would represent their society to outsiders and explain what they do.  After many colorful entries, and a democratic vote (with everyone being able to cast two votes), a flag designed by Tierra was chosen.  Of course Cash Society would also need the one thing that the name promotes, cash.  Once again all the day campers hunkered down and designed the Cash Society cash.  Once again Jordan had the winning design of the cash that will be oh so important this week.
  After designing it was time to get down to business.  First and foremost the campers had to decide how much cash would be distributed each day.  Each camper will receive 900 Big City Bucks for showing up each day.  Also they determined that the people who designed the money, flag, and created the society name would receive 1,000 Big City Bucks.  Of course having a town means there are jobs that must be filled.  Two of the most important deal with money and government.  Seth was elected President of the County Council, which is the governmental agency that will oversee cash society.  He will be paide 1,000 Big City Bucks for his role.  Brionna was hired as the banker.  It will be her job to make sure everyone gets paid each day.  For her add effort she will receive 800 Big City Bucks.  Celia and Macy will help as bank tellers, and will received 500 Big City Bucks for their hard work.  Gavin, Tierra, Jordan and Shelby are all money counters and will receive 300 Big City Bucks for their efforts.  In a society where they can print and cut money as they need it and not worry about inflation, you can imagine how important money cutters can be.
  After lunch it was time to get down to business, literally.  The members of Cash Society broke into groups and created the advertising for their businesses.  Each of them picked a business name, hours, and told us what they would be selling.  After their hard work it was time to let them spend some money at Mrs. Aggie's Mini Society store.  Prices might be slightly different from what they were expecting, with prices ranging form 300 big city bucks on up.
  After a breif review of the day and the concepts it was time to head home.  Stay tuned for more fun as we open all of the cash society businesses tomorrow, and we see how well our campers budget and handle savings.