Blog:22 Senior Project Reflection

(1) Positive Statement
What are you most proud of in your Block Presentation and/or your senior project? Why?

Im proud of how much the class enjoyed doing my activity. They gave a lot of positive feedback. Im glad because creating the note cards took me hours to complete!

(2) Questions to Consider
a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Block Presentation (self-assessment)?


 I would give myself a P.


b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project (self-assessment)?
I would give myself an AP.

3) What worked for you in your senior project?

Working with two different mentors. Having two experts to ask questions to when i was confused about something really helped my experience.

(4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would have you done differently to improve your senior project if you could go back in time?

I would start making my activity earlier. I stayed up late cutting and gluing the pictures and prices on the note cards.


(5) Finding Value
How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors?   Be specific and use examples.


My senior project helped me pick the career i want to study for in college. Luckily, cal poly offers hospitality management. I've also have the chance to join both my mentors in their business. 

May Blog

Unfortunatley, this is the only picture i got out of all the prom decorations. Everyone seemed happy with how everything came out and im glad i was able to be a part of making prom happen. All the stress and hours put into prom planning was well worth it  in the end. I was a major part of decorations and on prom day i was one of the few people who had to go decorate the venue. We did face many diffuculties the day of though, the biggest one was that the venue hadnt informed us about an event they were having that morning, because of that event we were unable to do the big decoration set us so early in the day.

Blog 21: Mentorship

Interpretive:
One of the most important things ive learned from completing my mentorship hours was working with all sorts of clients even if they're difficult. I also had first hand experience working as an on site event planner.
Applied: What ive done through my mentorship has helped me find answers that i feel are most helpful. During the time i spent on events i was able to see what was most important and figure out what things would bring in profit. For example during the events ive worked on we provided great costumer service to our clients and alot of their family asked for business cards.

Blog 20: Exit interview

1. What is most important in managing a profitable event planning business? My best answer is "Satisfying a customer while building long lasting relationships."

2. I thought about how my other answers help answer my EQ and with the help of my mentors they we agreed that when you provide excellent customer service to your clients they will continue to return to you.

3. The problem i faced was writing out my answer was that i knew it would be difficult to find an activity that would teach the class how to do it themselves. Also, i had trouble with finding the wording that would make my answer look best.

4. One of the most significant sources were my mentors Rosy and Claudia with their help i was able to get the real inside into all my answers and experience some of the benefits and hardships that come with the business. The other was an article i read. It is titled The life of an event planner: dealing with difficult clients by Kate Minshall.

Blog 19: Independent Component 2

a. I, Leslie Nunez, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
b. Senior year helped me complete my independent component. 
c. 
d.  Interpretive:
I'm not done with my independent component two but so far i've been a big part of planning prom and i will continue to participate in the committees. Planning prom helped me with my senior topic because i've had to deal with budgeting, and planning a themed event.
Applied:  
This experience has helped me answer my essential question because i've had to learn how to budget and negotiate on my own.

These are the type of vases we want for the candy table

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We want lanterns like these as center pieces but they might be out of our budget!

This is the fabric we got to make runners on the tables, but we got it in black and gold

April Post

On April 4^th, I went on my first all day wedding with my mentor Claudia, the owner of Enchanted Crown Events. I had the opportunity to help Claudia and her assistant to set up the wedding. Everything pictured below was done by us three. It was a great experience that taught me how an event planner works and what they have to do for the client during the event. We did run into some trouble where a glass door fell and shattered because of how windy it was. This was a problem because that glass door has the seating arrangement the bride had set up. Luckily, the bride was understanding and was happy Claudia had everything on paper; I just had to direct everyone to their tables. I look forward to joining Claudia at another event in May!

March Post

This month I've been going to my mentorship a lot since prom is coming up and a lot of girls go in looking for opinions from girls around their age. So Rosy Nunez likes having me there just in case. My mom wanted other ways to advertise her business so we decided we'd make an Instagram for the store and it has really pulled in new clients.

Blog 18: Third Answer

• EQ:
• What is most important in managing a profitable event planning business?
• Answer 3:
• Having a good relationship with your client to ensure a future.
• 3 details
• Because having a good relationship with a client keeps them coming back.
• You will make the experience easier for you.
• They will recommend you to friends.
• The research source
• #33 "How to build amazing vendor relationships" by Christina Berrios
• Concluding Sentence
• When you build a relationship your client will be able to trust you. When you treat that client well they will recommend you to their friends and family, bringing in more business.

Blog 17: Fourth Interview Questions

1. What has kept your business so successful?
2. What is the most important thing in running an event planning business?
3. What type of traits does one need to have in order to be sucessful in the business?
4. Do you have any future goals for your company?
5. Why is building relationships with vendors important?
6. How do you know what vendors you should build a relationship with?
7. What are the benifits of having that relationship?
8. What is the average budget do clients usually go to you with?
9. How often is it to have cases where the budget is just too low?
10. Do you have other planners working with you?
11. What is the average profit per event?
12. How many events do you take on in a month?
13. Why did event planning interest you?
14. What is your definition of a sucessful event planning business?
15. How do you ensure future clients?
16. How do you make sure you charge the right price for something?
17. How do you keep a customer happy?
18. Do you ever loose money in an event? if so how do you prevent that?
19. How do you come up with an event budget?
20. What advice would you give to someone who wants to be a future event planner?

Blog 16: Advisory meeting #2

What is  most important in managing a profitable event planning business?

Answer #2: Building helpful relationships with vendors to provide better prices for you clients while making a better profit.

• When an event planner has a relationship with vendors they will get better prices.
• The vendors wont fail you because they want you to come back
• If the vendors make you look good clients will return to you
• Negotiating is easier

 How to Develop Amazing Vendor Relationships and Sponsorship by Christina Berrios

When building a relationship with vendors you can provide better service to your clients while bringing in profit. 

Blog 15: Independent Component Approval

1.  For my 30 hour i plan on working with someone else on an event, not my mom this time. i was thinking maybe if i help plan prom if it would count?,
2.  If i can do prom, then the event will be evidence. I will also take oictures of all the organizing and meeting held.
3. This will help me because its an event i will be helping plan, but without a professional guiding me.  So in a way it'll be tougher but funner. 

blog 14: Independent Component 1

I, Leslie Nunez, affirm that i compleated my independent component which repreents 30 hours of work.

I helped at A&R Creations, with my mentor Rosy Nunez. I helped her make a contract with a client which involved providing the decorations of a venue and church. 

By doing this i learned how to work with customers and provide them something that fits their budget and needs.

It helped me understand my topic better because i now know what it is an event planner has to deal with. For example the day we set up the venue was a sunday, the church ended at 4 pm and the guest would arrive at the venue right after but we had to transfer some of the decorations from the church to the venue before the guest arrived. to fix this we had two different teams working; one was setting up the venue and the other the church. With that team work we managed to get everything done. 

Blog 13: Lesson 2 Reflection

1. Positive Statement
Im proud of my activity. I think people really enjoyed it and it was really understandable. 

2. Questions to Consider
       a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

 I would give myself an AP.

       b.     Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.
I think i deserve an AP because my activity really put to use what i taught the class. The only requirement i didn't meet was time so thats gonna hurt me a lot. 


3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?

My activity.

4.  (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?

I would read more books on my answer so i can add more slides and have more information to talk about .

5. Finding Value
What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?  

Something about negotiating or time management. 

Blog 12: Third Interview Questions

1. What is the most important thing in having a successful event planning business?
2. What is your thought of a successful business?
3. How do you build relationships with vendors?
4. What are the things that keep your business profitable? 5. How do you make sure you don't overprice but also don't underprice?
6. How do you ensure future clients?
7. What do you do to before, during and after the event?
8. how do you build up on your career?
9. Do you have any goals for your career? What are they?
10. What advice can you give to someone who wants to be an event planner?

Blog 11: Mentorship 10 Hours

1. Where are you doing your mentorship? Im doing my mentorship at A&R creations; a business dealing with an aspect of event planning.
2. Who is your contact? Rosa Nunez (909)706-2283
3. How many total hours have you done (total hours should be reflected in your mentorship log located on the right hand side of your blog like your WB)? I've done 12 hours
4. Summarize the 10 hours of service you did. For my mentorship i had to change the window display very often because changing it brings customers since they like seeing new things. I also had to work with alot of customers while my mentor made allterations on pieces.
5. Email your house teacher the name of your contact and their phone number confirming who they should call to verify it.

Blog 10: Senior Project: The Holiday

1. It is important to consistently work on your senior project, whether it is break or we are in school. What did you over the break with your senior project? During break i tried getting in touch with different places i can do my independent component with and only one has answered and said it would be ok for me to go in for as long as i need. I also went to do mentorship hours for 2 days which is about 6 hours total.
 2. What was the most important thing you learned from what you did and why? What was the source of what you learned? The most important thing i learned was to do stuff on time. I have called many places and only one has answered so that is saying that i need to do stuff ahead on time so i wont be stuck with nothing at the end. Calling those places is the source.
3. If you were going to do a 10 question interview on questions related to answers of your EQ, who would you talk to and why? I would talk to an event planner because my topic is how to run a successful event planning business. I would ask them what has kept their business growing and what they do for it to grow.