Since Norbert receives hundreds of requests from all over North America, he likes to book all the schools in one area or province/state within a few days or weeks so he’s not criss-crossing the country. Booking your area schools within the same week(s) also helps in keeping the travel costs down for your school and for Mr. Georget.

The best way to get a date on Norbert Georget’s International tour is to call our office directly, speak with Mr. Georget’s Tour Coordinator, and make a formal request to be placed on the tour schedule. The easiest and fastest way to get a date is to allow us to suggest you a date and time slot so Mr. Georget’s tour flows together well. If you are flexible (and call early), you are almost guaranteed a spot on Mr. Georget’s busy schedule. If you have a specific date that you have in mind on when you would like to book Norbert Georget (i.e. conference, special school day/week, TAPP/CAPP day, etc), you may call or fax the date you have in mind and we will try our best to accommodate that booking date. It may be best to check on the availability of Mr. Georget’s s schedule before you go ahead and plan out that special day. Sometimes we are able to suggest to you a slightly different date without affecting your event that much. But keep in the mind, since Mr. Georget’s schedule books up very quickly, the more notice we have, the better chance that we have in booking that specific date. The more flexible you are, the more flexible we can be too.

We get many booking requests in one day, so there may be a school in your region that have already called, prior to you, and they are eager to book right away. You’d be surprise how many times we are able to match schools up instantly with our booking data base. Working together, between your school and our office, there’s always a good chance that another school in your area has already called us or will call us within days to match up with you. If we do find a match with your school, we will notify you and start working out appropriate dates for everyone. It’s that easy.

Not to worry, that’s what Norbert Georget’s tour coordinator is there for. Since you may have done some of the networking to get these other schools interested in booking Norbert’s powerful presentation (be it by phone, fax, broadcast e-mail or regional meeting), all you need to do is just jot down the names of the schools interested, the contact person’s name, phone numbers and just fax or e-mail it to Mr. Georget’s tour coordinator. She will take care of contacting these schools for you and setting up the dates/times and other requirements. We appreciate you calling these schools initially. You can leave us take care of all the other arrangements for you. Your school may even qualify for a special savings since you provided our office with a multiple school opportunity. Call our office for details.

Mr. Georget always arrives at your school one hour before the presentation start-time for set up. He comes very well equip, however there are a few things he may need from your school. An equipment list and set up procedure will be faxed to you well ahead of your assembly date so you may prepare for these simple items. A written introduction will also be faxed so you do not have to do any homework on how to introduce Mr. Georget. We want to make this easy for you. The set-up time requested is 60 minutes prior to the start time of the assembly. The average length for Norbert’s presentation is 75 minutes….this includes walk-in time and introductions. If you need 2 assemblies then we always schedule them back to back….each assembly can be 60 minutes in length with 10-15 minutes between these 2 assemblies. If you have any questions about the set up, just pick up the phone, call our toll free number (1-800-293-9039) or send a quick e-mail and we’ll have the answer to you immediately. By the way, if you leave a message with our live 24 hour answering service, our office policy is to return your call within 24 hours (most times it’s within minutes) or we will return your call at a specified local time that you provided for us. We will do our best not to disturb you in class or a meeting unless it’s urgent.

There are so many high school grade levels across the country, especially between rural and urban schools. If you’re a rural school that has K-12 students, Mr. Georget generally will speak to all grades 7-12 together. Grades 6’s are welcome, however, he usually speaks with the grades 6’s when it only goes up to grades 8 or 9, so the generation gap is not so great. If you’re a junior high or elementary school, then the grades 6-8 or 6-9 combination is perfect. The Smart Youth Power Assembly is certainly appropriate for junior high age level students. In fact, hundreds of junior high/elementary schools have made it a tradition for Norbert to speak with all their junior high students before they graduate and head to senior high. If you have any questions about this matter, just call our office.

YES! He most certainly does speak to parent and community events. If you would like Norbert Georget to speak with the parents/community, we can schedule Mr. Georget for an evening event. We usually book your student assembly in the afternoon so Norbert can leave his equipment set up and ready for the evening event. This is a great way to get your community involved with your special event or theme of the day. You can have special guests like the mayor, police, fire department, EMS services and sponsors at this event. Of course, if you wish and you have the seating space, the community can be invited to the student presentation during the day. However, from our experience, there usually is a better ‘turn out’ at the evening event since many parents are at work during the day. Plus, it’s best when you can have your students run home after school and advertise the evening session to their parents. This is the best way to advertise the event in the last minute, along with your usual bulletins and notices.