Blog 19: Third Answer

• EQ
• How can a youth sports organizer encourage players to return year after year?

• Answer #3 (Write in a complete sentence like a thesis statement)
• A youth sports organizer can encourage players to return year after year by incorporating smart small business management techniques to keep the business afloat and available for players to play.

• 3 details to support the answer
• Business techniques can keep an income flow to pay for referees, equipment, and safety equipment for the players
• Small business management keeps the customers (families involved) coming first and having their happiness be the number one priority.
• Small business management is also the best way to keep a business running as a company and this keeps the sport running for players to participate in as time moves on.

• The research source(s) to support your details and answer
• Forbes Magazine
• Positive Coaching Alliance

• Concluding Sentence
• By using small business management techniques a youth sports manager can open business to many players to participate in as they grow up.

Blog 12: Holiday Project Update Due

1.  It is important to consistently work on your senior project, whether it is break or we are in school.  What did you do over the break with your senior project?
-Over the break I planned out the Winter 2016 season of AVY Flag Football. This included setting up registration, meetings with vendors and possible advertisers, and equipment checks. Also had contract meetings with the City of San Dimas Parks and Rec. through out break.

2.  What was the most important thing you learned from what you did, and why?  What was the source of what you learned?




-I learned that if you want something done to nag until it is completed. My source of this was the miscommunication with the city as one of the employees went home early being sick and I was e-mailing them asking for paper work, but since they weren't in the office and I only e-mailed this wasn't figured out until I called them at home the next day.

3.  Your third interview will be a 10 question interview related to possible answers for your EQ. Who do you plan to talk to and why?
-I plan on interviewing the President of San Dimas Little League. I plan to interview him because Little League brings in over a hundred kids to play each season and is a nationally know youth sport organization.

Blog 1 – Senior Final Lesson/Interview Reflection

1.  What three lessons were most helpful for you to see, and why?

The three most helpful presentations I got to see were Matthew I. on Electrical Engineering,  a Small Business Management presentation, and Ana N. on Social Psychology. Matthew and Ana's presentations showed me the benefits of loving your topic and doing the research not only because you have to but to learn more about a field you genuinely want to be apart of. Ana also gave a great example of interacting with the audience and how this helps teach the topic to the class. The business management presentation helped me in a separate way as it showed me what not to do. His slides were sloppy and the color scheme did not match, he as repetitive with information, never cited his sources until the end and even then it was small font which wasn't readable, and above all else his activity was very obviously last minute and didn't have strong ties to what he EQ was on. 

2. List one thing that you learned about the senior project in interviews that will help you get off to a good start?

One major thing I learned from senior project interviews is keeping up with the blog assignments. It was explained to me how much the smaller assignments build up to the senior project grade and how the "big scary presentation" won't affect much of the grade as is believed by lower class-men. 

3. What topic(s) are you considering, and why?

The current topic I am considering right now would be business ownership. I have been given the opportunity to take over a flag football company that I have coached for for the past 4 years and I believe that doing a project on something in my life I would have to learn how to do would be interesting and beneficial to both school work and my job.

4. What EQ do you think might be interesting to consider in guiding a project like this? (Please don't worry about any sort of formula...we want this question to come from your genuine interest).

As a starting EQ I think the best way to put what I want my project to revolve around would be " What is the best way for a business owner to help make the best experience for the company and its clients?"

5. What are some ideas you have about finding summer mentorship?

A few ideas for summer mentorship is Bob N. who is the pervious owner of A.V.Y. Flag Football and has already promised to show me the ropes on running the business. Others I have looked into is the owner of the game store Gameology which I have become friends with over time as well as another close friend of mine Luke P. who is a co-owner of a cement distribution company in Souther California.