Marketing Team
Socially Personally responsible individuals that demonstrate reliability & commitment (S26) At Hokkaido International School, there is an annual concert held at the Kitara Hall in Nakajimakoen. In this concert, students are given the opportunity to perform and show what they have learned over the past year to an audience of over 1000 people This is a night where the students, parents, and teachers all come together to celebrate the hard effort we put into the arts. This night is one of the great highlights that this school provides. One of the great things that we learn at HIS is the importance of being reliable and staying commited. We do this through simple acts such as coming to class on time, to practicing and performing solos in front of our peers. But all-in-all this requires us as students to be socially and personally responsible, by showing our reliability and commitment to the tasks we are given. For me I was able to exercise this through the unique opportunity I had at HIS to be part of the Kitara Marketing Team. Through the course of the months leading up to the concert, we advertise to a wide range of audiences, the experience that our international population has to offer. We put up posters in stations, publish videos and fundraise at festivals. Being a part of this team required a meeting once a week, as well as work outside of school. We would visit local Japanese schools, use our connections as plugs, selling tickets to our concert as we went. We also created a system for the students to sell tickets to their parents and family as well. Our team made a goal every year to fill the hall with as many people as we could, with this years goal being 1000. So far, we've had an audience of about 600-750 people annually. Through this experience I learned how a large scale marketing/financial project is carried out, and I am grateful I was able to take part. Me and a fellow team member were in charge of collecting the money and tracking how many tickets were out at a certain time. If we slacked off or chose to quit and be lazy, the whole operation would have suffered. We all did our part to stay true to the task and we pushed through the months. On the concert day, nothing was more satisfying than seeing the seats in the concert hall fill up with excited and people who I know would wave at me from the seats. Sadly this year, this is not the case, as the coronavirus has disrupted many plans around the world. But the past two years have been such a blessing in which I was able to feel the benefits of being commited and responsible in my duties as a committee member. Above are pictures of the concert as well as a picture from one of our meetings. I will cherish the memories that the Marketing Team gave to me. Those evenings were ones I looked forward to, and I really was able to grow. Once I am in the corporate world, I would like to once again feel and experience these emotions. I am going to study International Business in college, and I know that experiences like this are far from over. Once I am in a career, I will be able to go into a task like this with experience behind my back, and all I need now is to hone and perfect it. This experience has taught me much. My goal for this specific husky is to work on my personal organization. One thing that I learned in this process was that each member must be fully on top of their own work for the project to move forward smoothly. Over the past few months I have been using a planner, planning each day and jotting notes. My goal is to do this for the rest of my life, and I know it will come in handy in group scenarios as well.
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Tadashi ShichidaSenior @ Hokkaido International School Archives
June 2020
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