Young nation builder event planning essay

Group Essay When we were first placed into Young Nation Builders as our respective stream for our service learning earlier this year, many of us were dreading the thought of taking on an entirely new workload, out of our already hectic schedules. By March, all of us in Young Nation Builders had been allocated different events that were to be planned for our college community and even those outside of it. As for the four members of our group, we were assigned to plan a collegiate level debate event with the collaboration of other Young Nation Builder members as well as the highly experienced debate club. For all four of us, this task was our first experience with planning an event. Initially we thought of our duties as simply a chore, and we showed little interest. But over the course of the two months we spent planning this event, each one of us became more rooted to our responsibilities and we had learned to appreciate this opportunity we were given to gain such valuable experience in this field of event planning. Throughout this course, we were faced with a discouraging array of challenges, of which we have taken back numerous valuable life lessons from. Teamwork, responsibility and determination top the list, as these values were what kept us going even when the going got rough. For example, the amount of participants joining the debate competition was very disappointing. The debate competition was on the verge of failing. However, with our strong determination, we were able to pull it through successfully. Asides from the lack of participants, we were also faced with a budget problem which restricted us a lot. The budget which is allocated to us is only sufficient for food and drinks. The budget didn’t include much of the prizes. Therefore we decided to decrease the cash prizes in return for lower registration fees. With our precise planning of our budget allocation only then we were able to pull it through. This has trained our organization