San Antonio Stock Show

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San AntonioStock Show RodeoSchool Tours
Committee

• School Tour Guide Orientation

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Why was the School Tours Program created?

• The primary reason for the school tours program
  is to provide a
  
• safe and educational
• tour of the Stock Show grounds
• to the young students and their teachers.

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Students Involved in School Tours Program

• Touring students
• Kindergarten through 3rd graders (ages 5-9)
• Tour Guides
• FFA, FCCLA, 4-H members Ages 14-18

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Safety is 1
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Tour Guide Badges

• Each guide issued numbered badge for that guide
  only do not share with other people
  
• Worn at all times on right chest
• Free grounds entry for duration of show

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Tour Guide Dress Code

• Guides are to dress neatly
• Representing the best of their organization.
• Organization identifying attire recommended
• NO shorts or crop tops, caps, hats, or
  sunglasses.
  
• Best bet follow school dress codes!

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Tour Guide Guidelines

• No chewing gum on tours.
• Smoking, dipping, or any other use of tobacco
  products is strictly prohibited.
  
• Guides will not use cell telephones or pagers
  during the tour.
  
• During the tour day, there is no place to store
  hats, caps, purses, phones, backpacks, or other
  valuables.

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Car Passes / Parking

• Passes distributed at a ratio of 1 to 5 guides.
• Tour Guides in cars enter the SBC Center grounds
  through Gate G (North Gate) off of SBC Center
  Parkway, and proceed to Lot G.
  
• Tour Guides arriving by bus enter through Gate A
  (West Gate) and unload at the back of the School
  Tours tent. The bus is then to enter Gate G
  park in Lot 7.

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Starting the Tour Day

• Tour Guides will meet at 730 a.m. in the School
  Tours Tent for
  
• preliminary tour guide registration
• short orientation
• daily schedules
• maps
• special instructions for the day

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The Tour

• Approximately 2 to 2½ hours
• Committee members and representatives are
  stationed throughout tour route to assist and
  answer questions
  
• Guides should take their time, talk to their
  school groups, and answer questions in a
  courteous manner.
  
• Tour Guides should not rush through the tour.

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Educational Centers in Livestock Area

• Educational Classroom Centers are located in the
• Animal Adventures barn
• Dairy Center
• Horse Center
• These Centers offer exhibits, pictures,
  demonstrations, and some hands-on displays.
  Volunteers will guide classes through centers.
  Guides are not to enter the barns, only the
  educational centers.
• Visit centers in any order --- if one center is
  too crowded, go on to the next and come back
  later.
  

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Family Fair Bud City Area

• Family Fair
• Exhibits
• World of Agriculture
• Texas Trails
• Hall of Fame
• School Tours Tent

• Bud City
• Clydesdales
• Chuck Wagons
• Shows

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Ending the Tour

• When the tour is completed.....
• -take classes to a restroom facility
• -return to School Tours Tent for lunch
• -guides wait with their class in the roped-off
  lunch line outside the tent
  
• -guides give school and teacher name to the
  individuals manning lunch trailer
  
• -assist teachers in seating students and
  distributing lunches
  
• -guides are then free for lunch

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Tour Guide Meeting Daily Door Prizes

• At 200 p.m., Tour Guides report back to the
  School Tours Tent.
  
• Brief meeting to discuss that days tours
• Door prizes are awarded to Guides for the day!
• Guides must be present to win!
• All guides that register in the morning and
  complete a tour or other tour duties are eligible
  to win!
  

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Tour Guide Scholarships

• 24 1,000 scholarships awarded to
• 4-H, FFA, and FCCLA graduating seniors
• To be eligible to apply
• must have served as a tour guide at least one
  year
  
• must serve as a tour guide senior year

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Apply for Tour Guide Scholarships

• 4-H Members http//texas4h.tamu.edu
• FCCLA Members
• http//www.texasfccla.org
• FFA Members
• http//www.texasffa.org

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