Innovate Ithaca Reflection

She used a stern yet eye opening tone throughout the whole speech. The was Quindlen worded siren line made it very apparent that she is trying to spark change. She was stern to get the point across and make people believe she knows what she is talking about and not some random person who doesn't know what they are talking about. The way she described the reason for change was very unique because everyone is always talking about change yet never had an solid ideas on how to do it. Quindlen did, she defined the issue then came up with a solution, I believe that this a big first step in her

My heart raced uncontrollably as I waited for my turn to come. I was sitting, for the first time, in a classroom in the United States, surrounded by people who were at least 2 years older than I was. Professor Knapp had asked for each one of us to stand up and state the reason why we were taking the Entrepreneurship course that summer at the University of Southern California. I thought I was prepared to answer what seemed like such a simple question, until I heard the responses that my fellow classmates were giving. “I want to expand my apparel business to other states” “I want to make even more than the 70 thousand dollars I made in the stock market last year” “I want universities to encourage the use of the app I built”. What was I supposed

She has a paper in front of her that had quite a bit of writing on it. At times she would read completely from the paper, other times she would look out at the audience and recite from memory. Her attire was casual, sporting a tie dyed shirt, and some jeans. This fit the event nicely, and made people relate to her more. She spoke into the microphone efficiently, ensuring the audience could hear her.

Her transition into her conclusion was not obvious, and it did not reiterate any of the main ideas from the body. Her closing sentence “We should be getting adults to start thinking more like children”, is an ironic and powerful statement. It would have closed the speech very well, if she had slowed down when she was speaking it. It sounded like she was going to tell us more, because of the way she said the last sentence. Because of this, there was a slight awkward pause between her ending and the audiences clapping. Despite the weird ending, I could tell the audience really enjoyed her speech. It was memorable because of the way she delivered her information, her use of visual aids, and it’s relativity to the audience. I feel the primary message was not only to inform about how children think, but also to encourage adults to be more open minded, imaginative, and creative. In other words, be more like a

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As a member of the class of 2016, I was given the opportunity to perform any graduation project I wanted. After hearing about so many positive experiences with Pennsylvania Free Enterprise Week, I decided freshman year that I needed to attend later on. This past summer, I spent a week at Lycoming College attending Pennsylvania Free Enterprise Week. Throughout PFEW, I was given the one-of-a-kind opportunity to operate my own business with high schoolers from across the state. I worked with a ‘management team’ of sixteen complete strangers to turn a failing company into a prospering one. This project was not only significant to me, but to all of Perkiomen Valley. PFEW is an amazing resource for anyone remotely interested in business to learn the ropes before being thrown into the real world. During my time at PFEW, I opened the door into a world that I now love, made connections that will last a lifetime, and learned lessons that will stick with me forever.

Dr. Hart was a very timely speaker. She engaged in the audience and really got the crowd involved. Everyone had a chance to participate and actually talk to the speaker and answer questions out loud. Dr. Hart was also funny; this made the audience feel comfortable and included in the conversation. By presenting these different forms of speaking, Dr. Hart eased the audience and the timing felt just right.

I have always been interested in “doing my own thing” or, better known as, entrepreneurship. In high school, I would buy T-shirts, sweatshirts, and hats in bulk. I’d embroider little emblems on them and mark up the price by 100%. People at school would buy $1 shirts and pay $9 for my craftsmanship. However, I wanted bigger and better things. I channeled Andrew Carnegie in my approach to business: why just stop at my little venture when I could vertically integrate and market for myself? I decided to invest all my money in a new cause and thus, my own social media marketing company was born. The skills I’ve learned in starting my company is something that cannot be taught. I would relish the opportunity to grow and learn at an institution like The Stephen M. Ross School of Business that understands the importance of innovation and exploration.

A meaningful experience for my college career will be my participation in the St. Joe CEO program. Over the course of my high school, I have determined that I am interested in pursuing a business degree. As I was scheduling my senior year classes, I learned about the Saint Joe CEO program which provides an excellent opportunity. The Saint Joe CEO program is not your typical style class. During the first semester, the classes are held at a variety of local businesses, and corporate officials or business owners discuss the process of beginning and managing a business. During the second semester, the students collaborate in creating a business plan, acquiring the funding, starting the business, and finally marketing and selling your product or service.

She spoke very clearly and her tone was very easy for me to understand and listen. She put many of the facts she spoke about into situations that her audience could better understand, which made it easier to follow along and comprehend. This also made it seem like more of a conversation instead of just a speech. Because she was familiar with her speech, she hardly relied on her notes during delivery and made good eye contact throughout.

Every speaker was humble even though they have this amazing world changing technology. If they went up there and were prideful there would be this disconnect and your message wouldn’t be heard. Danielle has this high up position and has tons of experience but states she still has more to learn. It put her and the audience on the same level.

The main points were clear, with the transitions feeling a bit lacking. She spent an equal amount of time on the body paragraphs but they were way too short, as the full speech fell a minute behind the minimum required presentation time. The was no slang, but there were some grammar and syntax issues, which are not completely the fault of the speaker, but are the fault of subject-verb agreement in native language. I would be lucky to do so well in a second language. She used effective imagery with her rhetorical questions, but could have done better imagery application with the soft information.

When She finally began her speech I was shocked. In the movie she is portrayed to be this woman who seems to be very autistic and who cries over her cows and that’s what I was expecting from her. There is so much more to her than that though, she’s amazing and so very smart. My mind was blown right away. She spoke about how sees thing and how much bigger her visual cortex is compared

Prior to attending the Business Internship course, my knowledge and understanding on successful business leaders was very limited. Although I had heard of countless success stories in business, I had never actually understood what it took to achieve such measures of success. However, it wasn’t until we had the privilege of hearing from four different business magnates in weeks 6 -9. Each of the business leaders gave an hour’s seminar and which was aimed at providing insights into their personal lives, working experiences and the core essence of 21st century business leadership.

Although, I did notice that the women had on skirts which there were legs showing. Not that it took away from the speaking, but looking around it did get the attention of the men in the audience which from observing they probably were not paying attention to the speaker. It was a typical setting as with most, we were at a hotel and we were in a huge room with a stage and screens. It was by far boring in my eyes it was the typical scene, but I understand that you want to be taken seriously in a professional environment, hearing about it is one thing, but being in attendance is another. I like colors, but I know in most professional environments, it is distracting and will take away from the purpose of the speech. First of all, this is a conference concerning most banks operating systems, so it was interesting, to say the least. It was captivating to me because he touched on things I have to deal with every day while working on the computer at work. The one thing most of the speakers did were engaging the audience, the one thing they referenced in the introduction, was introducing themselves, along with stating that they want the audience involved. This is not a fly by event this is an event that is being held for three (3) consecutive eight (8) hour days. There was a lot of ground to cover and it was in a room with well over hundreds of people. I liked the