Breaking Stereotypes

We were all thinking about ideas to publicize KIVA and where to present. A lot of suggestions came out; however, Mr. Anderson surprised me with the most shocking story. Previous KIVA service learning groups would go to public places like the beach or grocery stores, yet people would ignore the presentations. People did not give a chance for them to actually talk about KIVA because they thought it was an advertisement for something. On the last service learning day, a group went to a company to talk about KIVA. Contrary to my thoughts, talking to adults in a professional setting or business setting was more effective than public areas. The workers were amazed from the students' presentation and their knowledge of business/entrepreneurship. I thought adults would ignore students' opinions, but the formal presentation actually convinced them to the point where an employee of a company that a previous group presented to still goes on KIVA.
After this story, I was excited to start the presentation. I began fixing and updating the Powerpoint. Then, I started to read the script in order to get a better sense of when to change slides and how I should make the presentation more fluid. Although I felt confident before giving the mock presentation, the experience during the presentation was so different. I was not in communication with other members and the presentation wasn't as smooth as expected. This was a really insightful experience as we did not realize the little quirks we had during presentations. Our group decided it would be nice to decide the final scripts and actually know what we are going to say in order to actually match the flow of the presentation. It was a great start to the service learning year.

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