[tsl/intern] Giving a helping hand.... for justice!
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After taking a bit of a break from my event I hosted as a Global kids intern, I was asked to help out with a new project for GK. After being given a bit information on the Visions of Global Art Contest, it seemed interesting, and something I could participate in helping with . Right from the start, I began to compile a list of things essential to promoting and getting the contest started. Of the first tasks were posting in the forms/event list, and creating a poster that would reach out to teen residents to participate. After doing a little bit of thinking for the idea of the poster, I was soon finished it, and it was ready to be put up and displayed around Global Kids Island. Once the posters were placed, events listing of the Global justice workshops and the announcing of the winners went up.
Soon I began to get between 5 to 10 IMs at a time upon logging in, which gave me a good sense that the contest was well on its way. After I passed many informational notecards out, to those who were interested, we soon received the first entry of the contest. It was then, I knew it was getting close to the judging of all the entries we would receive, which meant it was time for me to find judges! After a quick consideration of who would be a good team to judge along with, I choose Lucky Figtree, and Mercury GKid. Both of them have been involved with Global Kids for a while now, and seemed like the right people for the job.
What felt like a short time after selecting the judges, it was time to bring in those last entries to put up in the event area. After setting up all the entires, and placing notecards of the explanations of all them, it was time to let the judging begin. When judging, it felt reassuring to have other people judging along side with me, to make sure those who deserved to win, did just that. Once the judging came to an end, all judging cards were handed into Shawna to tally up, before the big announcing of the winners event took place. Once all winners were announced and given their prizes, everyone proceeded on to the RezDay event.
Once the crowd started to die off, and most of the GK staff began to log off, was when I felt that the contest was a success. After being weary at first on taking on what seemed to be a large project, it felt great to had helped out and to have finished up with everything.
