EDGE Proposal

Allison Hadley

allisonhadley4@gmail.com

Major Forensic Chemistry

Minor Biology

Number of Credits Completed 89

Anticipated Graduation Spring 2018

Tuacahn Center for the Arts Marketing Internship

Abstract

Tuacahn Center for the Arts attracts many different crowds one of the challenges they face is making sure each of those crowds are reached with a sufficient amount of marketing.  As an intern in the marketing department I will be able to take part of finding and reaching out to those crowds. This internship will give me many opportunities to work with professional actors and artists and they come in for concerts and the Broadway in the Canyon Series.

I will be working eight hours each week at the Amphitheatre and three hours online from Cedar City.  I will be performing varying tasks: sending emails to patrons, delivering print marketing like brochures, table tents, and tabloids.  I will also be participating in the planning of promo events, parades, and parties for the actors.  In October when the concert series start I will be helping with hospitality management like setting up the greenroom and making sure the performers are happy before, during, and after the show.  This internship is to help me gain professional skills that I can use throughout my life.

  

Larger Purpose

The larger purpose of this project is to help me gain professional skills and to learn how to interact with different type of people.  I will be working with administration, professional actors, and professional artists.  Learning these skills by observing those I am working with and how they interact with people will help me develop my skills so in the future when I am interviewing for graduate school or a job I will stand out above other candidates because I have those skills. This project also gives me the opportunity to work in a real life marketing department that reaches thousands of people.  I want to learn how they can do that and how I can take those same skills and apply them to myself and future career. 

Project Goal

My goal is to complete an internship at Tuacahn Center for the Arts and come away from it with a new perspective of life and new skills. 

1-3 Outcome(s)

Outcomes that I want to come out of doing this project is that I will walk away with more confidence in myself that I can think outside of the box and interact with multiple types of people on a professional level.  More people will know about Tuacahn because I will help find them and reach out to them.  I will contribute my knowledge of the younger generation to get them to Tuacahn by using my skills in social media marketing.

Deliverable(s)

Upon completion of this project I will turn in a journal of my time working at Tuacahn Center for the Arts along with pictures and a letter from my coordinator of my involvement.

Differentiation

This project differentiates me from others in my major because I am doing an internship at an arts center and I’m a chemistry major.  This project will push me outside of my comfort zone because it will require creativity and not just science.  This project will help set me apart when applying for graduate school because they will see that I am well rounded by doing an internship outside of my major.

Estimated Costs

Item	Cost
Travel Time	$7.00/week
Internet Use	$30.00/month
Opportunity Cost	$8.00/hour

Estimated Timeline

Start Date: October 3, 2016 // End Date: January 9, 2017