PR393@Curtin - Award for Excellence ceremony!

Hey everyone!

It’s great to see how everyone’s almost done with their internship. My manager was just asking me the other day when would be my last day, and upon checking the calendar I realized that I’ll be ending my internship exactly one month after I started. Pretty fast, isn’t it? I don’t want to imagine the nostalgia that’s going to hit once I submit my report. :(

Anyway, enough of digressing – let’s move on. I read back on my previous post and realized that I’ve forgotten to do a short introduction of what the department I’m interning at does – my apologies! Well, as I’ve mentioned before, I’m carrying out my internship at Curtin’s Business School’s (CBS) External Relations. That said, my department deals and maintains relationships with external stakeholders that are important to CBS. That includes CBS alumni, representatives from various organizations that CBS liaise with for events, members of the CBS Advisory Council and Boards of our respective schools, and many more. External relations also takes charge of CBS student chapters – setting up of such chapters and bringing its members together through events.

Since my last post, I’ve had the opportunity to attend an event planned by my department – The Awards for Excellence ceremony. It recognizes the cream of the crop, or to be more specific, the most outstanding student from each school. It was certainly a rare opportunity for me to be present and to experience such a prestigious awards ceremony.

Unfortunately, by the time I started my internship, the event planning was well underway so I only managed get a glimpse of the end of the process. I was asked to give assistance to put the door gifts together. The door gifts were chocolate truffles from Lamont’s, placed in a simple black box with a pretty red ribbon. It goes perfectly with the black and red theme.

That's quite a bit, isn't it? This is only what I've done. We had two other persons helping with this too! Nonetheless, it was really fun.

On the day of the event, I was asked to help set up road signs within the school. I don’t know how most of you would feel about doing something like that, but for me, I was just glad I could play a part (even if it’s the tiniest bit) in helping put the event together. So I assisted one of the marketing girls (they’re the planners) while we ran around school putting up signs . They even hired one of those huge electronic/digital road sign (the one you would see on campus near the gym). They definitely put in a lot of thought into every aspect of the event. From what I’ve heard, some of the visitors commented that that was their first time not getting lost on our campus. WAY TO GO! :)

Here's a photograph of what it looked like, so you have a better image how it was like. It was held at the John Curtin Gallery, which is near our university's bookshop. It was my first time being there. The place looks amazing. It's a pity I haven't had the opportunity to explore that gallery - it sure looks interesting! As you can see, even the lights were red. Everything looked really, really good!



And of course, a photograph of the pretty boxes! :)

I thought these pictures would make my post more interesting, hope you guys enjoyed looking at them.

What about you guys? I'd love to hear if you have any interesting events to share. :)


That's all I have to share for now. I'll be back soon.

Til then

Signing off, Michelle.