Service and Creativity
What I learned
This month CAC finished our installation artwork, it was presented in the lobby. The instllation art project went really smoothly, we had a total of 7 artwork sessions for the members. and throughout these 7 sessions, many changes were implemented to reach the ideal goal. My primary goal for these drawing sessions were to let make members take initiative, and make them come to the session every other week naturally without feeling being forced. To make the environment better, we rearranged the seats, played lofi music, brough snacks. For the executives, they must be involved in the artwork session as well so it makes the members feel like the executives are with them, they are not just coming to the session and doing their own stuff. I understood that usually, the number of members coming to the meeting will decrease as time goes by, so we tried really hard to prevent this from happening, from email to social media, the announcements, and initiating “side events” such as hoodies, CAC monthly artwork competition, I belelive we made the members feel like the club is very active and thus they would be willing to participate. These changes and attempts eventually yielded a pretty good result, inthe first 2 meetings, we had almost 30 people, in the last meeting, we had around 20-25 people, and the rest who did not come all priotized the artwork and completed on time. This experience taught me that if I want something to demonstrate “maintenance” and “consistency” I need to actually put efforts into these little things, we cannot just run the drills every other week afterschool. In the executive meeting, I would tell the executives about my experience as the president of the club and many psycological effects I “discovered” as I went through this journey, the main thing I would tell them is to always close your eyes and imagine what things will look like if you were a member.