Marquette Band Booster Team Descriptions

Activities Team
Lead By: Activities Chair(s)
This team plans, organizes and coordinates team building events and activities designed to promote camaraderie, cohesiveness, team spirit, friendship and self-esteem among band members and their families. Organizes and coordinates all hospitality and entertainment activities for the marching band throughout the year. This team will assist in the planning of the band activities like band camp evening activities, receptions after band concerts, 8th grade night & Senior night and the marching band banquet dinner.

• Family Picnic Team

  • Reserves a park pavilion, purchases food, beverages and supplies, organizes volunteers to grill, creates communication for students and families (everyone brings a dish), set up, and cleanup. This event is usually in July.

• Band Camp Activities Team

  • Responsible for planning, scheduling, managing, overseeing the two weeks of evening activities of the marching band summer camp. (e.g. pool party, movie night, game night, etc.)​

• Band Concert Refreshments

  • Organizes refreshment tables (cookies, lemonade) for families after each band concert. Plans, purchases food/drink, organizes volunteers to set up, serve, and clean up refreshment tables.

• 8th Grade/Freshman Liaison Team

  • Responsible for ordering food, setup, serving, and cleanup on 8th Grade Night. Team provides a welcoming environment for prospective band students to provide a glimpse of the marching band program. 8th Grade night is usually in September and the pizza party and activities are held in the Commons, prior to the last home football game. Talks to freshman parents during the April Parent Info. meeting, and handles emails over the spring and summer from parents with questions and helps our 9th-grade parents get acquainted with our band program.

• Year-End Banquet Team/Senior Night

  • ​Banquet Team: Determine caterer/food, create flyer & program, decorate the Commons and host the annual banquet in December. Coordinates with senior students in planning the program’s content

• Senior Events Team (Senior Parents Only):

  • Senior parents are responsible for planning special events for the seniors throughout the marching band season. They also coordinate with the photographer to have enlargements made of senior photos, hang the senior photos in the football stadium before football games, purchase corsages and boutonnieres for each senior student. This team also helps plan, organize and oversee the end-of-year banquet dinner where they coordinate with the senior students in planning the program’s content, acquire senior gifts, create scrapbooks for each senior and create a video montage for senior students.

• Pancake “Bandcake” Breakfast (TBD)

  • Pancake Breakfast happens the morning of the last competition in October. Students and parents are invited to enjoy a breakfast by Chris’s Pancakes. This committee is responsible for booking Chris’s Pancakes, decorating and cleanup.

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Concessions Team
Lead By: Concessions Chair(s)
This team plans and organizes inventory and sales of JV and Varsity home football game concessions and Craft Fair concessions and coordinates volunteers for all concessions events.

• Football Game Concessions Team

  • Band Boosters share the responsibilities with the Sophomore class of supplying and running the concession stand. Typically consists of 2 volunteer coordinators, 2 inventory coordinators and 2 finance coordinators. Concessions Stand Coordinators and Co-Chairs plan, organize and oversee the purchases of inventories, supplies, and sales. They also instruct new volunteers on how to set up the stand and how to prepare food (burgers, hot dogs, popcorn, pretzels, nacho cheese, etc.) The concession stand is open during all home JV Monday night games and all Home Varsity Friday night games.

• Craft Fair Concessions Team

  • ​Plans/organizes all concessions for the Annual Craft Fair fundraiser.

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Public Relations Team
Lead By: PR Chair
The PR Team is in charge of photography, videography, audio and social media for all bands.

• Photography/Videography/Audio

  • This team captures photographic/video records, event information and quotes throughout the school year. The team takes pictures and video of the students during summer band camp, Friday night football games, and band competitions for parent communications and social media throughout the band season. The team will put together a photo and video montage of the year in review set to music!

• Social Media

  • ​This team is responsible for announcing band events, distributing band information and sending out approved band photography/video.

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Props Building Team
Lead By: Props Chair
The Props Team works with Band Directors to build and maintain props that are used on the field at band competitions. Light carpentry/mechanical skills are helpful. The team can also use people with no carpentry/mechanical skills to assist in the building process. This is a fun and creative group.

• Props Building, Equipment Storage/Organization, Small Engine Repair

  • ​Responsible for coordinating with band director to build props, determine best way to store/transport props and band equipment (including uniforms and instruments) and keep all equipment organized and well-maintained. Small engine repair knowledge always appreciated.

• Traveling Props Team

  • ​This team is responsible for moving percussion equipment and props on and off the field at football games and competitions. For every competition and a few home football games, we need a group of volunteers to help assemble and move the prop equipment from the trailer to the field to perform our show. This is a very important job that is critical in helping our performance run smoothly. This team also provides water and snacks to the band members at competitions and home football games.

• Band Stands Bleacher Team

  • ​This team (usually 2 parents) will put the black, padded seat covers on the bleachers & prepare water jugs before home football games (by 6:30pm) and set up seat markers to reserve the seats for the band parent’s seats.

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Communications Team
Lead By: Communications Chair
This team communicates all pertinent band information to band families. This team works on the Marquette Bands website and Membership Toolkit (MTK), our booster communications hub, to announce band events and distribute band information.

• Marquette Bands Website/Membership Toolkit (MTK)

  • ​Responsible for maintaining the Marquette Band Website and Membership Toolkit (MTK) communications application. Some responsibilities include ensuring the website {www.marquette-bands.com} and MTK contain timely, accurate information about upcoming events, calendars, volunteer opportunities and fundraising events for all Marquette Bands for parent communications.

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Uniforms Team
Lead By: Uniforms Chair(s)
This team coordinates the fittings and distributes marching band uniforms and accessories prior to the marching band season. Throughout the marching band season, the team will help distribute uniforms before the home football games & competitions, help with any last-minute uniform problems, check-in and organize uniforms after competitions and football games, and get uniforms ready to be loaded on truck for competitions. Organizes cleaning of uniforms at end of year. No sewing skills are necessary but would be helpful.

• Inventory Management

  • ​This team organizes, inventories, cleans and manages the uniforms, accessories and band closet items before, during and after the marching band season.

• First Aid Team

  • ​Restocks supplies in both first aid bags in late May and restocks throughout season. This team needs to be available on the first day of Mini Band Camp and the first day of Regular Band Camp. A medical background for this position would be helpful but not required.

• Color Guard/Winter Guard Liaison

  • ​This team acts as a liaison between the guards and marching band to ensure that all communications and expectations are clearly understood between all groups. It is also important to make sure that all groups feel heard and represented.

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Fundraising Team
Lead By: Fundraising Chair(s)
Works with different fundraising suppliers throughout the year to offer students opportunities to earn money for their individual band accounts. Coordination of various fundraisers including sponsorships to assist in Band Boosters fundraising efforts. Also helps facilitate the major marching band fundraising events like the Craft Fair & Rock n’ Roll Bingo.​​

• Craft Fair Team

  • ​This is our biggest fundraising event of the year and we need as many volunteers as possible. Responsibilities include advertising and promoting the event, coordinating vendors, soliciting donations and planning for parking and room logistics. This team also plans, organizes, sets up, runs and breaks down the Craft Fair. This annual Band Booster fundraising event is held close to the early-Fall shopping season, usually the first or second Saturday in October. Marching Band students volunteer their time during this event.

• Rock n’ Roll Bingo Night Team

  • ​This team is in charge of planning, organizing, and running the annual Rock n’ Roll Bingo fundraising event. Duties include soliciting donations, organizing donations for silent auction baskets, photographing donated items, creating online bidding pages, overseeing the silent auction, decorating tables and organizing cleanup after event. Marching Band students volunteer their time during this event.

• Individual and Dine Out Fundraiser Team

  • ​​Provides the opportunity for students to earn money for their individual band accounts. Arranges 'dine out' fundraiser nights at local restaurants to help make money for the general band fund.

• Sponsorship Team

  • ​This team will coordinate the selling of individual and corporate sponsorships, stadium and event signage, and the advertising and promotion of the Marching Band program.

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Finance Team
Lead By: Treasurer
Works with Treasurer to assist with handling deposits, payments, and student accounts. Pick up forms and payments regularly from the black box. Responsible for monthly budget reporting. Treasurer will delegate separate treasury jobs to individual team members based on their personal interests/expertise.