This weekend I attended Scout Days at the memorial which is one of the events I have been working on for about two months. I have been planning activities for the boy scouts and girl scouts as well as planning my very own presentation. I did not know what to expect but I had a great time and enjoyed every minute of it. This program definitely taught me a few things and the first would be public speaking. Ironically the badge program I did was public speaking but putting myself in front of girl scouts and their parents was a new experience. I was nervous but I was able to present and I found that it went well.
I also found that I was able to learn a lot about planning programs and events. I was there for setups and takedowns and was also able to plan a lesson. Planning a lesson was the biggest part of my job with this event and it was a lot of work. I had to learn how to center my program about a topic such as World War 2 around children so that it was not too intense. I drafted many presentations before the event itself but I found that I learned a lot when it came to making a lesson plan about WW2 that fit with the requirements of earning the girl scout badge. I find that this experience is helping me with working on my public speaking as well as the education part of lesson plans.