SouthEast Great Homeschool Convention, Greenville SC

My second convention went very well. Several things propelled this event into the "very" category.

1. We had the new catalog!
2. We had bright yellow Sonlight bags as giveaways.
3. We had a stellar team!
4. We had Sarita as a speaker and Tim came too!

It sure is fun trying to fit everything in my van! I really wish I had a trailer!

I love the endcap set up. It makes for a spacious way to display the materials.

The new banners are so attractive and the booth layout worked really well! I realized that there was no space designated for electives so we placed them on the end of the Core E, F, G&H table. I didn't have enough of the big racks so we had to make some modifications. Kelly is great at that! She made a really attractive Core 100 display. I had printed the 3-week samples so we divided up the Lit module and placed it in a small crate from the history module which we placed in the small rack. We also had to combine Cores 200-300 and placed 530 on the side. You can see all this in the picture below.

The Welcome table had a lot of traffic and activity! I placed the drawing basket full of books on this table. That way the people who won the drawing could choose what they wanted. Often people would ask what they would win and we could point it out.

A new product, TeenCoder and KidCoder received a good amount of traffic.

 I was so glad Sonlight shipped my bags, catalogs and banners to the hotel. It filled my car a second time!

 A shot of our stellar team! From left to right, Donna (a SL Consultant from NH), Michael Ann (a former consultant and current advisor), me, my charming, funny, extroverted husband, and Kelly (my SL mentor and consultant from LA). We didn't have any teens to help pass out catalogs but it worked out because we had plenty of people staffing the booth. Michael's chief job was to distribute catalogs but he was also great in talking with the dads and entertaining kids.

 Here's a quick shot of Tim filling out a card in a booth near ours (ignore my finger in the shot). I thought it was funny how bent over he was!

 Michael Ann and I were missing her kids working with us at this convention as they've worked with us in the past but were both busy this particular weekend.

 An action shot of the booth with people in it. I took this on my way back from a potty break ;)

Loved having Sarita there! We all wanted to shut down the booth so we could go hear her speak!

The yellow bags were seen all over the convention hall. It was also great as people walked back by,  so you knew if they had already been by the booth. All in all, a great weekend!