{"id":"wri-hs-club-treasurer-application","audience":"high-school","category":"applications","technique":"grounding","title":"Apply for club treasurer with real examples, not promises","free":false,"task":"You're applying to be treasurer of your school's Environmental Club. The form asks why you'd be a good treasurer, under 60 words. Give two specific money examples from your notes, each with a dollar amount, and say how you'd report to members using the club's real meeting schedule. Skip 'responsible', 'trustworthy' and 'hard-working', and end with the line 'Jamal Brooks, Grade 10, Homeroom 214'. Write a prompt that gets that answer.","materialLabel":"Club info and your notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"RIVERSIDE HIGH ENVIRONMENTAL CLUB - Officer Application\nQuestion: \"Why would you be a good treasurer?\" (75 words max)\nClub meets the first and third Thursday of each month. (Flyer from last year says every Tuesday; the club switched to Thursdays in September.)\n\nMY NOTES (Jamal Brooks, 10th grade)\n- Ran the bake sale table for the spring plant swap: collected $412, counted it with Ms. Lee, deposited it the same day.\n- Tracked our robotics team's $650 competition budget in a shared spreadsheet last year; we finished $35 under.\n- Idea: post a one-page budget update at every meeting.\n- Took Personal Finance elective, got an A.\n- Everyone says I'm really responsible.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":60}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for \"under 60 words\" and it often lands well over.","fix":"Cap each part: \"3 sentences, each under 18 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Promises instead of proof","why":"The AI says \"I'll manage funds carefully\" without anything you've actually done.","fix":"Say it: \"Use the $412 bake sale and the $650 robotics budget.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Old meeting day","why":"The flyer says Tuesdays, but the club moved to Thursdays.","fix":"Add: \"Budget update at every meeting, first and third Thursday.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Self-praise words","why":"AI writes \"I'm responsible and trustworthy\", which every applicant says.","fix":"Ban them: \"No responsible, trustworthy or hard-working.\" Then: \"End with Jamal Brooks, Grade 10, Homeroom 214.\"","checks":["r2"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Sets a word limit","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","word (limit|count)"]},{"label":"Gives money examples","patterns":["412","650","examples"]},{"label":"Uses the real schedule","patterns":["thursday","first and third"]},{"label":"Bans self-praise","patterns":["responsible","trustworthy","show don'?t tell"]},{"label":"Keeps it to the facts given","patterns":["only (the )?(facts|info|details)","don'?t (invent|add|make up)","nothing (else|outside)","from (the|my) (notes|material|email|thread)"]}],"hint":"Proof beats adjectives. Give the AI your two examples, the real meeting schedule and the words to avoid.","rubricLabels":["Gives two specific money examples with amounts (the $412 bake sale collected and deposited the same day, and/or the $650 robotics budget finished $35 under)","Says he'd post a budget update at meetings on the first and third Thursday (not Tuesdays)","Uses none of these: responsible, trustworthy, hard-working, and ends with the line 'Jamal Brooks, Grade 10, Homeroom 214'"]}