Post Conference: Our Chapter's Responsibilities After We Return Home

If you did not read the post about all of the preparations we have to make prior to the conference, click here.

UVU PRSSA in Times Square, New York City after the 2013 PRSSA National Conference in Philadelphia.

Since the UVU PRSSA Chapter attends the PRSSA National Conference on a grant, they have particular requirements they must accomplish prior, during, and post trip to receive a grade and school credit for the trip.

Thank You Cards

We send thank you cards to almost everyone you can think of! We send them to the conference committee and PRSSA headquarters, and most importantly we send thank you letters to those from the school who believe in us and contribute and support the grant money that we received. We thank them for their efforts and explain to them how we benefitted from the conference. We also are recommended to send personal thank you cards to others as we feel necessary. I've spent a lot of money on postage! I've sent out all of our required thank you cards, (funny that it's required because it feels right to thank people for such efforts). I'm still in the works of writing thank you's to people who I personally met and networked with.

Presentation of What We Learned

After the conference we share the love! Each conference attendee is required to attend two communications classes and give a ten minute presentation about what they learned and took away from the conference. (Click here to see my presentation) This is a great idea, because not only are we able to share the excitement of the conference, but students are able to benefit from the conference although they were not able to attend, this also helps increase interest in the Public Relations Program at Utah Valley University.

Video & Written Essay

We are required to put together a a 3-5 minute video about our experience at the conference. (You can see my video by clicking here) We each are required to write a report summarizing how the communication field experience of attending the conference has helped us do the following:

1) Connect classroom discussion to real-world application

2) Identify career possibilities available in various communication fields

3) Demonstrate improved strategic skills in research, relationship development, application of knowledge and creative problem solving.

I'm currently working on this paper, but I will link it to my blog and this post once it is finished.