step 1. Describe your experience
For the winter market I made and sold necklaces, bracelets, and earring with my partner Paige. We decided to make jewelry because we thought that it would fun, and it was. Another reason we decided to pick jewelry was because we both had a little bit of experience making the products we sold, Paige has had experience making necklaces and chains, and I have made bracelets before so we thought that it would be a good idea.
step 2. Examine your experience. Use at least one of the prompts below.
A couple academic concepts came up with was, math because we used it for the financial part of the project, it helped us reach the goal of breaking even and making profit to give to charity. My expectation and for the project was that it would be hard and stressful, it wasn’t to bad near the start of the project but it did get a little harder near the end because of all the math we had to do.
step 3. Articulate Learning
I learnt that it takes a lot of work to run a business and create a product that people are willing to buy, there is a lot of planning and strategy to running a successful business. I learned this through all of the planning and preparation I needed to do through out this project. this all matters because if you don’t plan ahead your business might not do well and you might end up in a deficit.
choose a core competency to reflect on
I choose communication because I think that I am good at explaining what I am thinking about, for example when I working with a group if I have an idea I will talk about it and say something about it. I am also good at listening to other peoples ideas in a group. I think that I work well with others and I do my share of work in group projects.