By: Arianna Brown
This week we worked on focusing potential partnership projects and specific committee goals. As a class we worked, outside of class on community outreach and growing notoriety of Periclean on campus and methods for doing so (ie. a table at College Coffee to gauge interest and answer questions as well as reaching out to Global and Elon 101 classes for a presentation). Our committees set SMART goals (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, timely). Specifically for committees, such as Fundraising and Cookies-to-Go-Go, we discussed how our past trials have gone and what we need to change for future events and how things should be run. Similarly to that planning, the Hogares Sanos committee discussed plans for possible turnover of the program for post-graduation of our class to enable a sustainable continuation and transition of program direction, perhaps takeover by El Centro. The other committees, Librarian/Technology, Special Events, and Hope for Honduran Children are mainly focused on future plans and beginning our first, initial events which should be exciting to see unfold throughout the semester and over the next few years of our project and partner development. Hopefully, we will be able to evaluate the successes and shortcoming of our SMART goals and go back to problem solve for future events and planning.