The 44 Challenge for the Next Greatest Generation
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Next Gen Normandy is an educational travel program to the WWII battlefields in Normandy, France for students, teachers and lifelong learners.
It's aim is to allow young people to learn valuable life and leadership lessons from the men and women who helped win WWII on 6 June 1944.
This will inspire them to build the next Greatest Generation and accomplish great things for the future.
YOU can help a student and/or teachers in need travel to Normandy!
YOU can help a student and/or teachers in need travel to Normandy!
BACK THEM UP THROUGH THE “44 CHALLENGE”!
WHAT IS THE “44 CHALLENGE”?
A 44 Challenge is a « 44 themed » challenge that pays tribute to the Greatest Generation through a physical, mental or commemorative effort repeated 44 times.
EXAMPLES: Decorate 44 WWII hero graves at your local cemetery, do 44 push-ups, learn 44 units that landed on D-Day off the top of your head and recite them in less than 66 seconds (6.6.44, get it?;-), raise $44 selling WWII style powdered lemonade, etc. Do you have another idea? GO FOR IT! (More examples under "Can't find a 44 Challenge?" below).
HOW DOES IT WORK?
- Pick your 44 Challenge and announce it on your social media (Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, TikTok or other).
- Tag or invite as many friends you like. Ask them to bet that you will succeed your challenge in the form of a minimum $6 donation to the Next Gen Normandy Program made on our GoFundMe page.
- You have 44 hours to complete the challenge and post a video or pictures of it.
- If you fail or don’t complete your challenge, you lose the bet and you donate $6 to the Next Gen Normandy Travel Grant Program. If you succeed, your friends pledge to double their donation with another $6 minimum donation each.
BACK ‘EM UP FOR ONLY $6!!!
CAN’T FIND A 44 CHALLENGE?
Next Gen Normandy Program Manager Geert Van den Bogaert will be pulling up his sleeves in 2022 as well by taking on 20 (the number of years he has been guiding the D-Day beaches) 44 challenges in one year (his 44th birthday year ^^!). Here is his list of challenges in case you need more inspiration:
1. Decorate 44 graves of Allied soldiers in 6 different cemeteries in a day
2. Visit 44 WWII museums in Normandy in a year
3. Run 6 km in 44 minutes
4. Get 44 encouraging messages for the Next Greatest Generation from WWII veterans during the year
5. Get 44 likes in 66 minutes for our Memorial Day FB post
6. Walk the length of Omaha Beach with a 44 kilos pack on my back in 66 minutes or less
7. Memorize and recite 44 units that landed on D-Day in 66 seconds or less
8. Fast for 44 hours
9. Get a flash mob of at least 44 people who bring something blue or grey to form a 29th Infantry Division insignia on Omaha Beach as a tribute to those who landed there.
10. Play 44 holes on the Omaha Beach golf course starting at dawn and try to finish before dark
11. Do 44 push-ups in 66 seconds
12. Visit 44 D-Day monuments in one day
13. Make 44 free throws on the basketball court in 66 seconds or less
14. Stay 44 seconds underwater in the English Channel
15. Get 44 shares of the hashtag #NextGenNormandy with a picture of a student who is going to travel in 2022 on Instagram
16. Stand at attention without moving for 44 minutes at the grave of an unknown soldier
17. Answer 44 D-Day questions from a high school class during a live zoom or webinar with 2 of the Next Gen Normandy program guides. They are only allowed to leave 6 questions or less unanswered.
18. Bet 44 Dollars on a crap game (one of the WWII GI's most favorite pre-D-Day past times!) and not lose.
19. Raise 44 Dollars selling powdered WWII lemonade at 1 Dollar a cup in 6 hours
20. Ask 44 businesses and organizations to support the NGN program by donating $44 Dollars or Euros each in one year. Highlight their support on our social media and promo materials emphasizing how they are « Helping to build the Next Greatest Generation »
Organizer
Geert Van Den Bogaert
Organizer
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