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Learning Transferable Skills Through Event Planning

Kenna Cottrill and Kim Hayashi

Leadership Inspirations

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OVER THE PAST twenty years, high schools have relied on and have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on event-planning companies to plan their dances. After years of watching dance committees hand over their event responsibilities to these companies, one of us (Kim) decided to create an integrative program whereby students could learn and have control over the outcome of their event. Instead of simply selecting a theme and colors and making posters for publicity, this program sought to provide students skills they could use in the ...

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