Teen Think Tanks™ is a national project.  It is essential that a local organizing committee work with Teen Think Tanks of America personnel in planning, promoting, and performing each Teen Think Tank.

The Local Organizing Committee (LOC) has several vital functions:
 

• ENLIST LOCAL AND STATE GOVERNMENT.  Teenagers respond well to the idea that somebody important is listening.  For every Teen Think Tank, we have a packet of letters for each participant from local and state leaders encouraging their work and promising to accept and consider their results.
• RECRUIT PARTICIPANTS.  Teen Think Tanks work best with a demographic cross-section of students participating.  The LOC will work with local schools and youth organizations to invite students to participate.  It is the hope of Teen Think Tanks of America that when we come to a community we would conduct 3 or 4 sessions over a 2-day period.  In that case, the LOC would need to recruit 75-100 teenagers in order to have 60-80 actually attend the sessions.
• LOCAL PUBLICITY.  This idea is unique and local news media will want to feature the event in local TV, radio, and newspapers.  The LOC will work with the local media outlets to provide this attention.
• THINK TANK SITE.  We require a meeting room with space for 6 to 8 tables, projection screen or white wall, and space for spectators to sit fairly removed from the students.  To protect anonymity of ideas, we cannot let spectators be close enough to look over students' shoulders as they work.  The room would have to be secure to protect the equipment.
• RECRUIT LOCAL SPONSORS.  There will be some cost to the LOC for publicity, room rental, etc.  Local sponsorship will help defray this cost.
• COMMUNICATE WITH TEEN THINK TANKS OF AMERICA.  It is crucial that open lines of communication and authority be established.  We need to know who our liaison is and you need to know who to call in our organization.  Problems can be solved if they are known and can be avoided if we're all talking with each other often.

• Review other Teen Think Tanks.  Get excited about learning what your teenagers are thinking.
• Find a group of people who share the same vision.
• Contact Teen Think Tanks of America.  Brice Marsh, is a co-founder and President of Teen Think Tanks of America, Inc.  Rod Peeks is a co-founder and Secretary.  We will share all the information you need to host a Teen Think Tank.