Growth

April 23, 2013

I have finally finished my semester-long events project, Going for the Gold, a Girl Scout Gold Award workshop. Granted, I only started about 2-3 weeks ago, it has felt like forever. I am actually really happy with it. My presentation is tomorrow but we can submit the actual written part any time before next week. I will embed the PDF at the end of this post. It's quite long, so I'll be impressed if anyone even skims through the whole thing. If you do, let me know what you think!

Anyway, the title of this post is "Growth." Why? Because when Professor Tucker first told us about the assignment and handed out the instructions, I was baffled. When she passed around previous examples and went online to show us more, I became very anxious. How was I supposed to create an entire proposal for an event that's not even happening? How could I possibly figure out the venue, food, marketing, programming, possible risks, and the necessary permits? The project seemed absolutely daunting, especially since I had no ideas at the time.

Originally, I wanted to do an event  in California revolving around Corgis. Shush, I know that some of you are thinking that I am obsessed with Corgis. Well, that's not entirely false, but that's not the point. Looking back, that does not sound like a practical thing to plan because 1. I know very little about California, let alone planning an event there, and 2. I know very little about dogs other than they are cute. Yeah, I didn't think that would work well either.

I turned my attention to another interest: Girl Scouts. I completed my Gold Award and it was one of my best accomplishments so far. Basically this event would allow previous Gold Award recipients to aid current Senior and Ambassador scouts who are striving to complete their projects. I'm not going to explain too much more about the project itself because the entire thing will be posted below. I'm just amazed that I could actually complete this and learn so much about the event planning process. I never knew that there was so much involved in event management, but it's only made me even more interested. I've been applying for various events internships and it's really exciting because of all the different avenues that I can pursue. I guess we'll just have to see where this field can take me!

The size is a little weird, but here's my project for whoever's interested: