To be a pavilion staff member means many things, everyone's experience is different and there's plenty of room for interpretation. In this though I will be telling my experience and explaining why to me, being a pavilion staff member means having a larger goal and being able to share, learn and grow from the experience with other people. Being a pavillion staff member is an opportunity for growth. Many things have drawn me to this conclusion such as team building, deadlines and even technology being introduced and skills honed that before I wasn't even sure I needed.
Many extracurriculars offer team building and group tasks such as projects and papers. Yearbook is different though, in the way that were always in groups. We are given a set amount of peers and a goal. How we reach the goal is up to the group to decide. This allows for creative freedom while still structured enough that we learn to combine our ideas and turn it all into one final product. This is basically like a company only shrank so learning to work with others in a semi professional environment has been very helpful and will be something I am able to look back on in years from now.
Deadlines have always been in our lives and always will be, time is something we cannot control but being productive is. This class has brought out the hard worker or the true slacker in everyone in this room. With ages due, people to interview and take photos of, as well as keeping up with everything else in our lives it helps us manage our time wisely. Being able to keep up with all your other classes and still come in here and work on the yearbook is something i think takses a bit of time management and patience. Yet again, like a work setting we have certain things that must be done at the end of the day, week or month. This has made me realize that working and getting things done is a lot harder now that I am about to enter the adult world. Not impossible but still a skill that I began in this class and will work on for a while after I have left.
Technology seems to be the thing for this generation but I never understood a lot of it. While my group was or as socially active and on technology as much as marketing, I still had to manage to figure out the program we used to make the yearbook. Something that is seemingly small and took about five minutes actually did have an impact on how I worked. Even to this day I cannot avoid running across something I do not know how to do but that good to me. Because this means I am slowly learning and adapting as I work. Yet again another skill that I will need in the future but not surprised considering how this class runs a lot like a newspaper or new station. The eDesign program itself has even helped me understand page layout and given me many new ideas for the book im working on writing.
I haven't been the only one learning of=r growing either. The wonderful people I have met in the groups I've been in have been feeling similarly as far as I know.Watching them and working with them has been a blast and while we may not be bestys i'll most likely always remember them as my teammates. Everyone has something to gain from this and i'm hoping that everything we have gathered here sticks. Something else is the wonderful contests and other things our teacher likes to put on our google classroom. Being able to keep up to date on everything has made this school and even life outside of it so much more interesting.
In conclusion, being a pavilion staff member is a lot of work. You have to learn to work through a lot of things and take your team along with you. With all the struggle aside it is beyond worth it and I would do it all again if I had the time to. Yearbook has been nothing but a blast and im going to miss it next semester, but all good things must come to an end. I'll be leaving this as it stands because much else can be said, other than being a pavilion staff member is getting prepared for the real world and something I would recommend to anyone willing to work.
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