🗂️ Organize and update project files, documentation, and plugin configurations for the Pokémon Professor project

docs/projects/pokemon-professor/Play! Summit/Montreal 2025/Day 1/1 - Pokemon Club.md

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+Theme
+Capitalize on excitement and collect community sentiment to help shape 
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+Pokemon Club
+- ATL first discussed
+- Program put to a halt bc of pandemic 
+- revamped the program
+- program officially launched 20 days ago
+- broad access for young fans to experience pokemon
+- Launch and run at scale
+- schools, libraries, comm centers, afterschool
+- Access
+	 - when there is a club kids dont need to bring anything
+	 - free
+- clubs dont need to be near leagues
+- develop cognitive academic and social skills get through play
+- Value prop of Pokemon Club
+	- External studies done by Columbia Uni 2011
+	- ![[Pokemon Club Value Prop.jpeg]]
+- Experience:
+	- younger players
+	- minimal competition, maximum learning
+	- place to play without needing cards or anything to bring to it
+	- Pokemon supplies clubs so they have all the tools 
+	- No purchasing cards
+	- No purchases
+	- No scalpers
+	- People running the clubs are not professors and may not know Pokemon really
+	- Included in kit
+		- 6 battle academies
+		- 27 demo decks
+		- 2 raid battles kits
+		- None of the above is taken home its used in the club
+		- Givaways (stickers, some promo cards, etc)
+		- refresh of materials every 6 months
+- Setting up for success
+	- Curated resources
+		- Pokemon club resource toolbox
+			- 30+ links and docs
+		- Poke Club kit unboxing demo for kit owners
+	- Only ALA member employees can be club coordinators
+		- Can have helpers
+			- Pokemon Prof
+			- Community help
+			- No background checks (ALA is already doing them)
+			- Orgs that Pokemon Club partners with will be conducting these checks
+			- 
+- Questions
+	- How do you ensure consistency across club members
+	- How do we plan on tackling Community Centers as they are fairly decentralized
+		- Usually managed by parks and rec (National Parks and Recreation Association NPARA)
+	- Clubs are labour intensive. Incentives for volunteers?
+		- Not there yet
+- ![[Pokemon Clubs - Bringing the worlds together through pokemon.jpeg]]
+	Partnering with Play! Stores
+	- determine how to engage the hobby retail channel to support pokemon clubs
+		- pressure free pathways
+		- pursue lighthouse examples
+		- learn from stores
+		- identify how to connect
+	- How would you want to support a local pokemon club?
+- ![[Pokemon Club - How to enroll in the program.jpeg]]
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