This project is very realistic for real life. Although, the white paper was as well because that project really opened my eyes to how organizations think and have to work in teams. This project is even more hands on, of real life situations. My team and I had the wrong idea at first, but we have given it a lot more attention and we now know what to expect. I am so excited to begin and gain some real life experiences.
This week was the first taste of what it will be like to work with a real world situation. Out of all of the projects I think that this one will teach us the most about how we will preform in a future job enviroment. I can't wait to start the project and I plan to give it my full effort and attention.
After doing some thinking about possible Clients for our final project I have come up with what I believe will be a good one. For this project we will be working for a small business. I would like to work with the Levee Health and Fitness to better develop their advertising. We would be able to make a brochure and come up with a marketing campaign. I believe this is a good idea because whenever I am at the Levee Health and Fitness it never seems to be busy and we all know how much everyone complains about the Co-Rec.
For project 2, our group was able to successfully evaluate the D.A.R.E. America curriculum and analyze ways to improve the local efficiency of the program. Because of our success with this past project, our group would love to continue working with D.A.R.E. We conducted a significant amount of research on the D.A.R.E. program, and we understand that there are many areas that could be improved for the local programs. If D.A.R.E.
First, I realized many of the weekly blogs I have been posting under white paper stuff..and not here. But I am really excited about the new project. My group decided to stay together. The biggest advantage that is we know each other's working styles and schedules because it is really hard to get everybody together during the week due to schedules, but I am really excited about the wonderful client based project, due to the non profit org. I have been apart of, I now realize the wonderful things that can occur because of the broad arena of such clients.
One of my potential clients I have been thinking about is China Dragon. They are the Chinese restaurant located at Purdue West . Since they are a small business, they do not have a vast marketing or advertising department. I feel that their menu brochure they have available for customers could be redesigned in a better format. This would greatly benefit the company since we will not be charging for our service and they will get a new design for their menu from the prospective of a Purdue student who are majority of their customers.
So, the group I was in for the white paper project has decided to stay together and finish out the semeseter with a great project. This project is going to be interesting and maybe a little time consuming because we will have to contact the companies and continually meet until our project is finished.
Client 1 – Purdue University Refuse/Recycling Department (Department of Grounds)
Our group has decided to remain together for our third project. Of course we want to minimize the research time so that we can focus more on producing quality materials for a client. The only way this can be done effectively is to tie in our second project. We can honestly say that we have conducted a through amount of background research on D.A.R.E. so it would be best if we could follow up with this topic.
For the service learning project, I have two different clients in mind. Hopefully, from these two, one will be readily available and will be able to be used for my project. My first client is the Beans Coffee Shop located in the MSEE building on campus. For this client I would set up a marketing campaign to increase sales. Currently I don't believe this coffee shop has any advertisement around campus. My second client would be a local elementary school. I would like to create a pamphlet and try to raise awareness and funding for one of their after school activities.