Blog #4: Presentation Refelection.

Q: In what way did your first interview affect your presentation?
A: It affected by the way that my first interview with the professor of Hospitality and Management of Mt.Sac, Dr. Fawaz Al-Malood was mainly about being experienced in order to be successful in the event planning field. I talked about a personal experience that I planned an event. So I focus on the set up of my quinceanera. My interviewee made it clear that a person with a degree and no experience versus a person that has both will a a more successful career than the other one. So that is why Purther helped me come up with the idea of talking about my personal experience of this event in my life.

Q: What you say stood out about your presentation performance and why?
A: I will have to say that I spoke with experience. That I talked about something that had to deal with my topic and something that had happened to me. It wasn't all scripted, even though I was nervous about forgetting to mention something I was there that day so I did know what I was talking about.

Q: What was the most challenging to do and why?
A: Knowing what my 5 minute presentation will be about! I wanted to talk about what a wedding consist of , and talk about all the small details that an event planner has to be planned. I wasn't realistic enough to think that five minutes isn't enough to talk about what goes in a wedding. I have learned so much on my research that I wanted to tell the class about it. I was stressing about what I would talk for five minutes and was still stressing the day of the presentation.

Blog #3: Senior Project Presentation1.

5 Minute Presentation Rough Draft.

Objective:

• Give students a better understanding of the "behind the scenes" of planning a wedding.

Procedure:

1. Introduction

• Who in the room has attended a wedding recently?
• Call on 2-3 people and ask them; What are some of the details that go on in planning a wedding?   [ex: venue,cake, menu, etc.]

2. Talk about the different details about planning a wedding.

• theme
• budget selection
• date selection
• guest selection
• attire selection
• ceremony selection
• venue selection
• catering selection
• cake selection
• decoration selections
• entertainment selection

3. Explain the different aspects of selecting each of the different details of a wedding.

• The different type of selections that could be made.
• Selections being made to accommodate your wedding theme.

4. Conclusion

• In order to plan a successful wedding you need to be on top of your "to-do list" to make your clients have a successful wedding themselves. 

Check for Understanding:

• Ask students why they think planning each detail of a wedding is important?

Resources/Materials:

• Display board of pictures of all the selections that have to be made for a wedding

Blog #2: Interview Check.

Q: Who are you interviewing and why?
A: I am interviewing a hospitality professor either at Cal Poly or Mt.Sac. Hospitality consists of a broad  category of fields and event planning is one of them. I think that interviewing a hospitality professor will open a lot of doors for my interviews and service learning later on. I was planning on interviewing an actual event planner first but then my sister suggested to start with the broad profession of event planning which is hospitality so I can get more information about it and more contacts, so why not just interview a professor that knows all the aspects of event planning. 

Q: What additional questions will you ask them?
A: Besides the 5 questions I will ask the professor :

• What made you decide becoming a  hospitality professional ?
• What steps as a student do you have to take in order to graduate with a hospitality degree?
• What category of hospitality do you think it's the most common in our community?
• What does a person wanting to pursue having their own event planning business have to do in order to accomplish it?
• Where are some event planning courses that I can take for my independent components?

Blog #1: Senior Project Topic.

Q: What is your topic?
A: Event Planning.

Q: Why?
A: So I have changed my topic three times already, and I have come to the conclusion that my topic WILL be event planning. I will mainly focus on the celebration side of event planning such as weddings. I have always been a big fan of television shows that deal with wedding planning. I have no idea why I didn't think of event planning for my senior project when I spent most of my summer watching TLC shows about wedding planning and I even said I wanted to be a wedding planner later on in life.
I wanted my senior topic to be a topic that I can show off my creativity and a topic that people will be interested on learning about. And for some reason I couldn't come up with one until Purther help me out and asked me why I like ASB and I answered that I love being part of school events, and BAM event planning came to the picture. Since that day I know this will be my senior topic no matter what.

Q: What do you hope to accomplish after studying this topic this year?
A: I hope to learn more in detail about event planning, more than just knowing you need to have organization and be able to manage your time. I really hope I get to do my service learning with a professional event planner and for he/she to teach me the steps it takes to become a successful event planner. Maybe I will make event planning a side job later on in life.

I am proud to say that I am really looking forward to this year and learning more about my topic.