9/5/14- “This is what you do for your internship? Jealous.”

My task for friday was to do some on campus promotion for Pepsi through some more giveaways. When I went in, I talked to my supervisor, Kasey, briefly and she told me what she wanted me to do for the day. Basically, I had a box of giveaways from Pepsi which consisted of frisbees, pens, mini footballs, and chap stick. Along with the giveaways, she said that I should set up a beanbag toss game to try to get students to play. It was a hot and sunny day on friday, so I was allowed to set up outside. The place I ended up choosing was in the sun but it was a higher traffic area which I thought was more important. Throughout the day I got pretty many people to play at least one round; it’s not easy to get people to play games on campus when they’re understandably more worried about getting to class or going to get food. Nonetheless, I made the most of it and talked to students as they passed by, tossing footballs to people and asking anyone who took one of the prizes on the table to tell others that I was out there with free stuff. I was out there for about 2 and a half hours when I finally ran out of almost all of my prizes to give away, all I had left was some of the chap sticks. Before I decided to fully clean up for the day, I went to take the table I had set up back to the office and planned on relocating to a shady area with the bean bag toss game to try to get a few more people to play while there was still the lunch rush around the dining halls. After I was done trying to get people to play the game for the day, I went back to the office and talked to my supervisor about some of the ideas that I have for this semester. She seemed pleased with most of them and we are actually going to be doing one of them this coming week! It will be a social media campaign to try to attract followers to the campus dining Instagram account by doing some great giveaways each day of the week leading to a pretty big prize giveaway on friday! I couldn’t feel more blessed to have this internship that let’s me work on all of these promotions and projects!