The event, Global Odyssey, was conducted on 14th February 2019. This event was conducted to show globalization. There were various teams like entertainment, food, logistics, fashion and tourism, finance and decoration team. I was the team leader of the food team. We had to come up with different food items that we would be selling. These dishes should also represent different cultures and so we decided we would sell: tacos, Pani puri, coco, ice tea, and red and white sauce pasta. I was in charge of making the pani puri and I had assigned every individual with a dish. We were supposed to bring the food for students in grades 7 to 12 as well as teachers. So, we came up with a strategy, decided the prices while considering the demand of each dish with respect to the students. We had to show how we used different subjects in Group 3. Economics was used to decide the price and quantity of dishes. Business Management was used to market our event as well as our stalls, we had put up posters of our stall everywhere in the school. ITGS was used while designing our posters. Psychology was used to persuade people to buy our food items. On the day of the event, we were short of food and so we had to ask our parents to bring more of it. Deciding the quantity of the food was something that we all lacked on. But, we made profits out of which 10% was donated. It was a great experience as we learned how to deal with a massive crowd.
Learning outcomes achieved:
L1. Identify own strengths and develop areas for growth
I am good at leadership and so I was able to manage my team. The area that I could work upon could be dealing with a huge crowd at a time. We experienced around 20-30 students coming together to our stalls. We had a cashier who was handling the money, but we had to rapidly make the dishes and serve to the people around us. It became hectic, a lot of times but we managed to finish all our food. Our food even got finished very soon.
L2. Demonstrate that challenges have been undertaken, developing new skills
I had developed communication skills. I had to communicate with my team as well as the customer altogether. It was difficult to manage both of them but eventually, I got the hang of it. Along with that, while deciding ideas we had various opinions and ideas that everyone would not agree on. This made it difficult for me to communicate our ideas with the teachers as well. But in the end, everything worked fine as we were successful in communicating what we aimed to learn and bring out of this event.
L4. Show perseverance and commitment in CAS experience
We were committed to providing our audience with good quality and quantity of food items, which we were successful in doing so. Even though there were many difficulties that we had to face, we were able to deal with all of them and make this event possible.
L5. Demonstrate the skills and benefits of working collaboratively
Teamwork is the key to success. We worked together as a team to overcome the difficulties. Even our work was divided and we had varied ideas of what we could sell. This gave us a chance to think broader and satisfy everyone’s demands. We were like each other’s backbone and helped each other when any one of us had a huge group of customers wanting a specific food. Overall, being in a team that was cooperative made it easier for me to manage everyone and provide our best services.
L6. Engagement with issues of global significance
10% of the amount that we all earned was donated to an organization: Missing Link Trust. Human trafficking has always been a serious global issue. This organization came to our school and informed us about sex trafficking and even created awareness about it through their app: Missing girls. We were moved by what this organization did, and so we decided to donate our earnings to them and be a part to stop human trafficking.
L7. Recognize and consider the ethics of choices and actions
We remained ethical at all times, even while deicing the prices. We were not greedy and we kept prices that were feasible to all. Even we took care that no food item is wasted by anyone, us as well as the students and teachers. We maintained a hygienic environment as well as cleaned the place to remain ethical.
Overall, this was a successful event, the customers were happy and we are glad that we were able to show our learning to everyone present there. We were able to make profits that helped the
Image of the event:
The video that sums up the entire event. Even I was featured in the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWzJfZejjHE&feature=youtu.be