The Strategy behind Dominican Day!

The strategy team is made up of 4 Senior business majors. As members of the strategy team, our goal is to keep the project focus and provide structure. We are all excited about our project and look forward to seeing what we can accomplish!

At our last meeting we spent time discussing Dominican Day. Dominican Day will be an event for members of the Shippensburg University community, our partners, and students in the Luhrs Elementary School. For this event we hope to educate these audiences about the Dominican Republic and our project. We plan to provide many events to give insight into Dominican culture, while sharing the specifics of what we plan to do while in the D.R.

We began our meeting by discussing the portion of the activities that will be dedicated to the Luhrs Elementary School students. For the time slot from 3:00pm-4:00pm we will focus on these students. We have developed a list of stations in which the children will participate for 10 minutes each. An example of these includes creating flashcards which will have a word in Spanish on one side and the picture on the other. The kids will be able to learn the word in Spanish and also color the picture. Other stations may include Spanish lessons, Spanish games, mask making, writing cards with translations for children in the DR, checkers and chess, and an active activity which will soon be determined. We also reached out to Kady and Abby in the PR group about what this event will entail so that a flier can be developed to promote Dominican Day within the elementary school.

In regard to the main portion of Dominican Day, Jon has also been in contact with Dr. Moilanen about constructing the Dominican-themed posters that we will use for photo opportunities. We also refined the list of supplies and materials that we will need to budget for in order to make Dominican Day a success. Examples of the supplies that we will need include paper plates, glitter, yarn, glue, feathers, markers, crayons, construction paper, flashcard supplies, and additional materials that will support our provided activities.

We then discussed the activities and events that will make up Dominican Day for our partners and members of the Shippensburg community. These activities include mask making, Spanish lessons, Latin dancing, Dominican-themed food, tri-folds and a PowerPoint explaining our project along with important facts about the DR, an extra credit worksheet for Spanish classes, checkers, and a photo opportunity with a Dominican-themed background. We also discussed placing bins for donations at specific locations near the tri-folds that we create informing attendees about different topics and aspects of our project. Along the lines of getting food catered for the event, we are waiting to hear back from Chartwells, who we informed that there would be between 75 and 100 people attending the event. We hope that this is an underestimation, but do not feel that it is necessary to budget for more individuals because of the many additional activities we will be providing at the event.

We are excited to continue working on this and many other aspects of our project! The Strategy team is 100% optimistic and looking forward to all we can accomplish.