New York Marketing Trip

On Thursday, April 4th, the 51 students of the DECA Marketing Education programs left for New York at 6 am.  The 8 hours of driving, along with the occasional rest stop was well worth it.  We arrived around 5 pm, and our first stop was Time Square.  We had time to wonder around and I ended up buying a pair of elephant print Jordan shoe laces.  After finding small creepy stores that one might try to avoid, to the major stores that are all over the country, we left for China Town.  This was by far my favorite part of the trip.  I spent the most here on knock off items from the back rooms, hidden by secret walls and doors.  After a long day here, an Italian dinner with a live performance, and a nice little pastry, we headed back to the hotel to swim. 
The next day we went to our business, Rime.  It is a shoe store that Nike sends a lot of its test products, but one of the best parts is the owner is a women.  Sue, the founder and owner of the store, is the only owner of store with a Nike partnership.  She spoke to us about the high rents of New York, her struggles as not only a business owner, but a female one at that, and all the inside looks and benefits she receives as a women owner.  It was a great insight on what she has went through to get where she is.  Our next stop was Rockefeller Center, where we went to the top and took amazing pictures.  Dinner was right after, at this amazing BBQ places that fed us ribs, chicken, fries, and coleslaw.  Then we headed to the Broadway musical, Spider-Man; Turn off the Dark.  It was not really for my taste but others said they liked it.  Personally, I would have rather spent the eighty dollars for my ticket in China Town.  We didn't get back to the hotel until around 11 pm, so we went right to bed. 
The next day was filled with walking across the Brooklyn Bridge, the beautiful 9/11 memorial, and taking a ferry around the Statue of Liberty.  But the day was started out with a visit to Carlo's Bakery, one of the best in the nation, where I bought a small, delicious, strawberry cheesecake. 
The last day was finished off with some 5th Avenue shopping, a visit to the Nike Store, the purchase of my new hat, and a dinner at Cracker Barrel.  We sadly arrived home around 9 that night, and I can not wait to go back...

The End of THE OSPS

We finally held the OSPS at the Nat Sunday, it was a huge success.  The Boothe's were all pleased with the outcome, they had a chance to get their business out there, and helped us all out with their coupons for prom.  We performed the morph dance twice, and although it wasn't as good without the lights, I think people still enjoyed it.  American Commodore also brought their own dancers who did an amazing job and were alot of fun to watch.  The show started out packed, so many people were pouring in,  but as the day went on, attendance slowly died down.  My favorite part had to be my free tanning pass for a week, no longer going to be a Casper, ha. All in all, I feel the One Stop Prom Shop was a huge success and I hope that other classes have the chance to experience in the future as I did.


One Stop Prom Shop website - www.1stoppromshop.com
Follow us on Facebook - www.facebook.com/1stoppromshop
Twitter and Instagram @ 1stoppromshop
YouTube channel - http://www.youtube.com/user/OneStopPromShop?feature=watch

Click on the links below for media coverage of The One Stop Prom Shop
Cuyahoga Falls News Press - Sunday February 24, 2013http://www.fallsnewspress.com/education/2013/02/24/one-stop-prom-shop-planned-for-march-3#.UTYGQItCZ04.email

Akron Beacon Journal Article - Tuesday March 3, 2013
http://www.ohio.com/news/local/jewell-cardwell-students-partner-with-businesses-to-do-the-prom-hustle-1.378160

Fox 8 News - Sunday March 3 2013 (this also appeared on the 3/3/13 at 10:00 pm
http://fox8.com/2013/03/03/students-create-one-stop-prom-shop/

Cuyahoga Falls Patch
http://cuyahogafalls.patch.com/events/one-stop-prom-shop-f19d351d

Harlem Shake

The Deca classes, junior and senior deca and the IMDD class, made a Harlem shake video.  Harlem Shake is a new viral video sweeping the web.  The idea came from one of the IMDD students after he saw the video.  He told us on a Tuesday, we planned it out Wednesday, and performed it Thursday.  It shows how fast things can move along.  It took us about twenty minutes to perform the dance.  It starts as one person, whose face can not be shown, is dancing in a room full of people.  The other people have to act as if nothing is happening.  As soon as the beat drops in the song Harlem Shake, everyone appears in crazy clothing and starts dancing crazy.  We did the video to promote one stop prom shop.  People will view the video for fun, and see morph suits and one stop prom shop colors.  Then the last thing they will see is the one stop prom shop logo and all its information.  Check it out on YouTube at one stop prom shop Harlem shake or, www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynsnTqn35TI

One Stop... Prom Shop Part 2

Our project, the One Stop Prom Shop, is helping our DECA classes learn to collaborate.  The Junior DECA is planning out the event, the overall order of events.  The IMDD class is split up into two parts, the morph team and the video team.  We also came up with the idea of the game show that the Senior DECA is now in charge of planning.  The IMDD class video team is making a stop motion video to play at the assembly that will tell about the OSPS, but also, it is meant to simply entertain the audience.  The Morph team is planning and practicing an organized dance to show, by far the best part of the assembly.  All together this assembly will be amazing when it is all put together and finalized.  Hopefully everyone else thinks so.

One Stop... Prom Shop

We are have a new project in class, the One Stop Prom Shop.  My groups project is to learn a dance dressed up as morphs.  It's a secret what dance or dances so noone else can know.  We have been practing every day for the past week and have to practice over break.  The assembly is in February so we have plenty of time and it will end up perfect.  Sorry for being short, but I can not say much about it. You can know more in February.

New Business Experience

Recently we have all found local businesses to work with.  I found Window Imaginations by Cheryl.  She wants me to design a business card for her 260 are property in Pennsylvania.  She wants a picture of her land as the background, and her information on the card.  The rest was kind of open to me and my own creativity.  I have designed about 30 cards so far, sent them all to her, and recieved feedback.  She picked the first one and had me make a couple adjustments to it. Right now I am awaiting her response to what she thinks, hopefully it is good feedback...

Yearbook Covers

Our main project this week consisted of making covers for the Cuyahoga Falls yearbook.  Most people based their covers around tigers, as we are the black tigers.  I got the ideas for my first cover, using a fierce looking tiger to signify our fierceness and want to win.  The Cuyahogan is spelled out with the letters made of tiger stripes.  I also played around with a few filters to give it a darker, bolder looking effect.  I did close to the same thing with my second design.  The main difference was that instead of a full tiger body, I just used the tiger head peering through the bushes.  The main colors for both are black and gold, for our school colors, and white, to stick out a little.  The two covers are listed below.