Puck Placement

 Today was my first Skate to Success event! Every Tuesday, 1-2 schools from the Worcester area come to the Worcester Ice Center with their fourth graders. The Railers bring in a couple players from the team to come take pictures and sign autographs. Today was Jack Quinlivan and Zsombor Garat. When I got to the Ice Center, I started putting together the folders for the kids to take home with them. They included 2 coloring pages, a word search, a magnetic schedule, a Trax card, and a ticket voucher for a game. As I was doing that, our COO brought his dog, Kelly, in, so I had to take a puppy petting break. After I was done with those, I passed out some of the orange jerseys to the kids. They got their instructions for the day and introduced to the players while I went back to the lobby to start sorting out the skates and learning how to size them - 1 size down from their shoe size for boys and 2 down for girls. I passed out their skates and they went to the locker rooms after they got...

 I had my second 3 in 3 this weekend! Friday, the 26th, I had classes and a meeting at school, so I got to DCU a little later. It was Women in Hockey/Sports night, so as soon as I got there, we were putting out the inflatable for our first game of the night - the girls hockey team from the Junior Crusaders. We also had 4 Nichols kids helping us out for the day. I did the seat tags and then it was time for our game. I was stationed at the Chuck-A-Puck table. That night, half of the proceeds from the Chuck-A-Puck went to St. John's Church for the homeless shelter nearby, so there were 4 of them who were at the table talking to the guests. We had Taylor Girard and Emily Brown come from the PWHL to do our puck drop and do a signing. Worcester Railer HC on Instagram Saturday was Star Wars night. When we got in we worked on putting together the Chuck-A-Pucks. After working on those for a while, a couple of us got called to put together the handouts - a Baystate Savings Bank bag with a fl...

 I had my first 3-in-3 this past weekend (3 games in 3 days), and it was so busy! January 12th was country night and was sponsored by Off The Rails. We came in and did Chuck-A-Pucks and merch stands, but the president brought in her new dog, so we played with her for a while as well. I did the seat tags again this game. I ran the Chuck-A-Puck mobile station for the weekend which is a bunch of the bags in a Price Chopper shopping cart. I walk around the concourse and stop at the Kids Club table and the bar section to get a good flow of people seeing me. January 13th was a high school double header day. We had 2 games between Nashoba Regional High School and Grafton High School, JV and Varsity. Like always, we came in to do Chuck-A-Pucks until I checked on the concourse table setup. I was called to help set up the inflatable for the players to skate through during their introduction. I helped unfold it and lift it while it was blowing up, then when they were done skating through, let...

 On January 5th, we had our first sensory friendly/autism awareness game. We went to the office and worked on making Chuck-A-Pucks and went to help set up the merch stands. This was also the first game I got to work that I got to be the one to check on the tables for the concourse. I got a blueprint style map of which tables were supposed to be where and who was supposed to be at them. It was also my first game doing the seat tags. These are pieces of paper that are taped to the seats in the rink of ticket buyers. They go on single ticket buyers' seats and those who bought the tickets for their group. During this game, the Railers had The Railyard (a room that has tables, chairs, and a bar that gets rented out each game) booked as the "Cool Down" room. I've worked with kids and adults with autism before, so I offered to be stationed there that night. I was introduced to a couple people from the Seven Hills Foundation as they were some of the sponsors for that night. T...

 I was able to start my internship with the Worcester Railers on December 22nd, 2023, in their front office. My position is in Game Day Operations. The first couple of games I worked were "Home For The Holidays" themed. During those games, I was stationed at the giveaway item table. We had fun holiday headbands, funky glasses, rubber bracelets, slap bracelets, and beads that were free for attendees to take and wear for the game. I would set up the Kid's Club table with the wheel for the kids to spin and the prizes that corresponded to it, making sure we had everything and it looked presentable. We, the group of interns, would arrive to the office and start working on making Chuck-A-Pucks to be sold during the games. This is a mini game that generates a lot of the revenue aside from selling merchandise. There are six foam pucks with a number written on them that get put into a brown paper bag that we write the same numbers on. They're sold for $5 and either takes place...