So my first week at the Cleveland Sports Commission I assisted Lauren Harris, the event coordinator for the Cleveland Classic. The Cleveland Classic is September 9th and 10th with mulitple events. On the 9th there is a college readiness fair along with a greek step show in the evening. On the 10th there are tailgating activities up to the main event, the football game. The football game is played between two Historical Black College Universitys (HBCU). At half time there will be a battle of the bands event which consist of the performances by both bands and the drumlines going against each other. So on monday I was first introduced to everybody and got to sit in on some conference calls about the Classic. I then was shown to my desk and waited while they set up my email address and log in information. When that was over with I got my first assignment which was to find a practice field for one of the colleges to practice on the day before the game. I gathered about 15 numbers from different schools in the cleveland area and called them all. Unfortunantly, I got a, "we have a football game," from nearly everyone of them, and the others would just say, "we dont actually have a football field." So that was both fun, awkward at times, and good experience for me. Also, since the Cleveland Sports Commission is located above Tower City, I will always have a good lunch.
On the Second day I made the agenda for the committe meeting on friday and also made a list of greek orginizations from different schools so we could email them about the step show and possibly being able to use one of their teams. The second day was probably the slowest day of the week because it was right in the middle of things.
On Thrusday we had to prepare for the meeting. I made name tags for everyone, tent cards, and put together 22 packs of 100 flyers, which took a very long time. Finally friday came and I got to go to the meeting. The meeting was held at the Browns stadium so I went there first thing Friday morning. I was very confused on how to actually get into the building but I eventually figured it out. It was exciting to have my name on the list the security guards had at the gates and having to be escorted to the visitors locker room, where the meeting was held. When I first saw that we were going into the visitors locker room I was like, why is it in a locker room?, but I forgot I was in a professional stadium so everything is probably nice, and I was right. The Locker room had carpet floors the lockers were ginormous and the bathrooms had nice tile and granite tops. When I got there I settled myself in and put the meeting agenda at every seat and gave the members of the committe their name tags as they walked in. A lot of different companies and organizations were represented at that meeting for this event. The meeting began with Elliot Taylor talking about the objectives of the day, and then quickly moved along to the breakout sessions. The breakout sessions were smaller committes that were organizing each activity for the weekend. Because I just went through the whole college process, they thought I would be more valuable to go to the College Readiness table to gives suggestions. We talked about all of the goals of the college readiness fair, and how the day would go. Suprisingly, I did a lot of talking then I thought I would. After about an hour of discussing the agenda for the Fair we all got back together with the other groups and presented what we discussed. After the meeting I met a lot of people and also met a Prepper Alumni, which was a funny conversation.
On Monday two other interns arrived, one from highschool and the other from college. The other highschool intern and I worked on calling bus companies and receiving quotes for transportation for one of the teams and also helped organize some supplies and old materials because the organization is moving in a few weeks.
So far this project has been a lot of fun and I've been exposed to a lot of different things.
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