Blog 5b: Science Fair Proposal

1. What is your topic?

• Event Planning

2. What is the driving problem behind your experiment and the quote by an expert to support that problem? (Expert citation must be MLA format.)

• Problem: Seasons
• "News News." National Retail Federation. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Nov. 2012. <http://www.nrf.com/modules.php?name=News>.

3. What is your hypothesis? (Must be in If-Then form.)

• If a Los Angeles H.S has a budget of $15,000 or less, than the satisfaction ASB members will have towards event will be low.

4. Write a paragraph summary of how you will perform the experiment.  Include the tools you plan on using.

• I will be surveying 22 different high schools. I plan on asking questions related to the prom and its income. 

5. Select one of the following Project Categories for your experiment:

• Income

Blog 9: Working EQ and Possible Answers

1.  What was the working EQ you used during your presentation?

• What makes an event successful?

2. Did you decide to revise your working EQ after your presentation? If so, write your revised EQ here

• I am not going to revise my EQ at this time.

3. What are possible answers to your current working EQ?

• The clients satisfaction of the event
• The ability to work with what you have (budget-wise)
• Everything going as planned

Blog 8: Rough Draft of Presentation 1

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B5wXYtW5K75ZWjQybElxR05iZkU

Blog 7: Independent Component 1 Plan Approval

1.) For my independent component, I would like to plan a senior picnic as a "bonding activity". I imagine there being a variety of simply foods and drinks, along with games in which the majority of the class can participate in.
2.) I believe this plan will complete my 30 hours of work with all the things I have to do in order to accomplish the event. Which invloves, getting the class to pitch in for the event, buying all the supplies, looking for a place, date, and time, etc.
3.) My working EQ is "What makes an event successful?" So I think that depending on the way the senior picninc turns out, I'll be able to have a answer of my own to that question.

Blog 6: Second Interview Questions

Interview Questions:

1. How long have you been working in the field?
2. Is this what you always wanted to be? Why?
3. What is your favorite thing about your job?
4. What is the least thing you like about your job?
5. What courses did you need to take in college?

Additional Questions:

1. Does your company do something unique that stands out from the rest?
2. What's the most commen issues you have with clients?
3. What skills must an event planner have in order to be successful?

Working EQ

1.) Positive Statement: During one of the days in which I was doing my mentorship hours, I got to be a part of the food tastings the clients had. They let me try the different foods and they also let me try the cake tastings.

2.) EQ Content: My interview gave me new information that I didn't know of. She helped me see how events are in one of two categories. Before she gave me that piece of information, I didn't even know there were different categories for events.

3.) Honestly, everything has worked for me until now. I haven't had any problems with this topic. I've found research easily and I found a great mentor, so that's made the topic easy to work with.

4.) Everything has worked out for me, I have no complaints.

5.) Finding Value:

• Questions:
• How does hospitality connect with event planning?
• Are there any other things I could study that would help me with my senior topic?
• My goal is to possibly get a job as my mentors assistant. Reasons being, not only does a job always come in handy but also because she told me herself that if by the end of my hours I did a good job with all the things she makes me do, she could give me a job.
• I would like to interview a professional wedding event planner next. Simply because it's the only type of event I haven't done much research on, yet.

Blog 5: Problem Statement

1.) Event Planning
2.)

• Planners aren't advertised very well. Most people don't know where to find a planner for their event .
• Once I solve this problem, I plan on passing down the knowledge and advice to my mentor because I know it would be of great help to her business.

3.)

• Some people don't like an event planners prices.
• As soon as I solve this problem, I will share my ideas with the owner and manager of the banquet hall in which I do my mentorship hours and hopefully, help them avoid losing interested customers.