Brian Bemis Ford and SHS Orchesis Test Drive Fundrasier Success!

Friday September 23rd, before the homecoming football game, the Orchesis members of Sycamore High School recruited hundreds of people to test drive a new Ford in order to raise money for their team. They were able to raise funds by partnering with Brian Bemis Ford through a program called Drive One 4 UR School, a program in which Ford donates $20 to the high school for each qualifying test drive. This year there was an added bonus. If a person test drove a 2012 Ford Focus after their first vehicle, Ford would donate an additional $10! Each person who test drove could raise $30! This was such a great opportunity and the students took full advantage!

The students signed participants up and as soon as the Bemis staff was back from a test drive, there was another one ready to go. It was non-stop test drives for over 3 hours! We are very pleased to announce that there were 210 total test drives! With the Ford Focus bonus added in we were able to raise over $6,000! We would like to thank everyone who came out and test drove a Ford and for supporting Sycamore Orchesis.

Wow! 178 Test Drive in 3 hours for Charity! Broken Record

On Saturday I was lucky enough to have one of those wow experiences and all for Charity.  Dodge and Brian Bemis Dodge sponsored a test drive for schools at Sycamore High School.  This test drive happened between Sycamore High School Orchesis dance performances. 

Between 4 and 7 pm, 5 Brian Bemis Dodge employees (Darren Hoth, Melissa Balon, Adam Lowry, Jack Rowe and myself)  did a test drive marathon.  And what a marathon it was, three hours of continuous participants for a 178 total test drives. Thanks to the energetic Booster Club mom and beautiful dancers, who were always recruiting drivers!  Thank you Tammy and Kristin, you were a large part of the success!

At $20 donated from Dodge per test drive, the test drivers all had a great attitudes and were having lots of fun with the event, which made it memorable for all of us working it.  I enjoyed the company and comments of all the test drives I had the pleasure to accompany.

Some of my favorite comment on the 5 New Dodge vehicles; (Durango, Dodge Grand Caravan and Dodge Journey) were:
“Are you sure this is a minivan it drives like a car?”
“now that is cool”  about the Durango’s touch screen navigation panel
“push start, where did the key go?”
“I didn’t know Dodge’s were this nice”
“what am I driving, I love it?”

Plus numerous wow comments about the All new Durango!

It also was a Brian Bemis record for number of test drives in a 3 hour period, beating the old record of 103 by 76 test drives!

What a great and enthusiastic event, which I was proud to be a part of it and raised over $3000 for Sycamore High School.