* Three posts per week minimum about your own project.
* One contribution/comment about one of your classmate's posts that offers additional insight to their experiences.
* Your post about your own project is to be a minimum of 200 words.
* Your comment about another experience should be positive and encouraging.
* Photos and/or videos are not required, but definitely encouraged. It's nice to have a visual to help the image in our head as we read about your project.
During your senior project you’re expected to fulfill these responsibilities:
· To report to your project daily at the appointed time and place, and to remain on-site for the prescribed time. · To do whatever activities are assigned to you by your sponsor, advisor or overseer. · To inform your sponsor if and when—for any reason—you will not be on project or if you will be late. For example if you have AP exams that will affect your project time, be sure to inform your sponsor. · To return to Hawken for those curricular, scheduled, and extracurricular activities and obligations that you outlined in your proposal. · To complete both your blogs and final report on time. · To attend the mid-project student/advisor gathering at the White House. · To make a final presentation of your senior project. · To inform your project advisor and your overseer of any unanticipated problems with or changes to your project. · To provide your sponsor with a copy of the “Sponsor Evaluation” (available on-line) and to meet with your sponsor about his evaluation of you during your final project week. · And finally to recall—at all times—that you are a Hawken student. You represent our school to those with whom you’ll be working, and your conduct will impact students who follow you. If a sponsor has a favorable experience with you this year, he/she will probably be willing to serve as a sponsor for future Hawken students. Pass it on!
Today I met with my sponsor and he gave me an overview of his company. He discussed how he first got into the communications industry, and how he has taken the knowledge he gained from working for his competitors and is now using it against them. He produces an improved version of their project, with an easier to use merchandising display in stores. I learned that the key to owning a modern business is simple: can you meet with a potential buyer and convince them to buy your product? If you can do this then you have a successful business idea. If you have a product that no one will buy, then everything else is a moot point. Also it is a good idea to start a business with a partner. There is less personal risk involved because the loan will be split between two people, allowing the debt to be less per person. In addition the workload per person is halved, allowing more work to be done, which allows the business to expand at a faster rate. I also worked with my sponsor to prepare product to be shipped to our buyers, and later in the week I will meet some sales representatives I believe.
Basic requirements will be the following:
ReplyDelete* Three posts per week minimum about your own project.
* One contribution/comment about one of your classmate's posts that offers additional insight to their experiences.
* Your post about your own project is to be a minimum of 200 words.
* Your comment about another experience should be positive and encouraging.
* Photos and/or videos are not required, but definitely encouraged. It's nice to have a visual to help the image in our head as we read about your project.
A SENIOR’S RESPONSIBILITIES DURING PROJECT
ReplyDeleteDuring your senior project you’re expected to fulfill these responsibilities:
· To report to your project daily at the appointed time and place, and to remain on-site for the prescribed time.
· To do whatever activities are assigned to you by your sponsor, advisor or overseer.
· To inform your sponsor if and when—for any reason—you will not be on project or if you will be late. For example if you have AP exams that will affect your project time, be sure to inform your sponsor.
· To return to Hawken for those curricular, scheduled, and extracurricular activities and obligations that you outlined in your proposal.
· To complete both your blogs and final report on time.
· To attend the mid-project student/advisor gathering at the White House.
· To make a final presentation of your senior project.
· To inform your project advisor and your overseer of any unanticipated problems with or changes to your project.
· To provide your sponsor with a copy of the “Sponsor Evaluation” (available on-line) and to meet with your sponsor about his evaluation of you during your final project week.
· And finally to recall—at all times—that you are a Hawken student. You represent our school to those with whom you’ll be working, and your conduct will impact students who follow you. If a sponsor has a favorable experience with you this year, he/she will probably be willing to serve as a sponsor for future Hawken students. Pass it on!
Today I met with my sponsor and he gave me an overview of his company. He discussed how he first got into the communications industry, and how he has taken the knowledge he gained from working for his competitors and is now using it against them. He produces an improved version of their project, with an easier to use merchandising display in stores. I learned that the key to owning a modern business is simple: can you meet with a potential buyer and convince them to buy your product? If you can do this then you have a successful business idea. If you have a product that no one will buy, then everything else is a moot point. Also it is a good idea to start a business with a partner. There is less personal risk involved because the loan will be split between two people, allowing the debt to be less per person. In addition the workload per person is halved, allowing more work to be done, which allows the business to expand at a faster rate. I also worked with my sponsor to prepare product to be shipped to our buyers, and later in the week I will meet some sales representatives I believe.
ReplyDeleteJust to make sure others know who is blogging, please use first and last name. Thanks.
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