Youth Empowerment Conference Reflection

Kevin Martinez
Visual Design
I.T.H.S
3/29/15

  Yesturday I attened with the Youth Empowerment Conference where it was held in the United Federation of Teachers Building on 52 Broadway, Shanker Hall, New York, the conference was from 9:00am to 3:30pm on Saturday. In the Youth Empowerment Confernce their was lots of guest speaker talking about what modivates them and their inspiritions and how they found there passion for their careers and one speaker was talking about her ancestors and where she came from. All the speakers made me think about what is my passion to get up everyday and go to school or do the things i do. My passion is my family and the love or soccer and basketball, my family's love for me makes me get up for school and play sports so i could have a good education and go to college and play professinal soccer or basketball when i grow up, That is my passion. The first speaker name Ms.Robinson told us all of her career and what sees does in her job, she told us how edcuation help her get that job and how she went back to school to get her High School dipolma and went to college to get all her degrees. The second speaker named Mia told us all about her job and where she works, she works for the Brooklyn Nets and Barclays Center as an event coordinator. The third speaker works for the NYPD and he is a Lieutenant and he told us his process to become a lieutenant and how he study a 3000 page book to get his position and how at his age he still study and is leraning and how edcuation is very important and how he loves his job because he is a role model to all kids.

Project 8 Brochure

 Kevin Martinez
Visual Design
3/23/15


This was my final draft of my brochure project with my group memebers. I was in charged of doing 2 pictures and doing panells 3 and 4. the picture i did was the main picture which was the six flags logo and the map of the rides and games in six flags. What i did to the six flags logo was the thing we learned from the periovus lesson which was puppet wrap. To do this puppet wrap i did it in photoshop cs6 and i placed the image in photoshop then i click on edit and puppet wrap then i would but points on the logo's, i but 8 points in this image then i click on a point and i would move that part of the image up or down. I did this to the image and it came out like that. The I had to do panels 3 and 4 of this brochure. What i wrote on the 3rd panel was i list some of the activities and rides in six flags. I list all the activites and rides in six flags in the 3rd panel. In the 4th panel i list all the foods and drinks the park has.My team memebers were Khirul, Samuel, and Dorant. This was what i did for my project 8 which was a group project brochure.

Critical Thinking and Problem Sloving

Kevin Martinez
Visual Design
I.T.H.S
3/5/15

      The other video we saw from the soft skills website was about critical thinking and problem sloving. I learned the it is good to be an active thinker because you can find ways to sloves problems that you think have no slovution. I also learned that for every problem he have our comes our way we can always find an slovtion to, you can even ask people to help you. Thats what i learned from the soft skill video about critical thinking and problem sloving.

Synopsis

Kevin Martinez
Visual Design
I.T.H.S
3/5/15

       The last video we saw in class from the soft skill website was a synopsis video. It was suming up all the videos we saw in class that day. The synopsis was showing us why we need all this skills for our jobs or any kind of business job you are working in our applying for. When need all this skills to be good people in our jobs. I learned that all these skills will help us be good in the future for us. That's what I learned from the soft skill video about synopsis.

Networking

Kevin Martinez
Visual Design
I.T.H.S
3/5/15

      The other video we say in class that day from soft skill was about networking. I learned that networking can really help you alot when you are searching for a job or any kind of business job or even an internship networking is really helpfull. I learned that networking is really helpfull for jobs today. With networking you can do lots of things like organize fills or fill lots of things threw networking. That was what I learned from soft skills video about networking.

Teamwork

Kevin Martinez
Visual Design
I.T.H.S
3/5/15

      The another video we watch in class was in the soft skill website and it was about Teamwork. I learned that when we do things as a team and one person from our work place or school wants to give us all the credit for the project we dont take all the credit we make sure we tell them the people that help us. I also learned that working as a team is good because we have lots of ideas and we will finish the work together. That was what I learned from the soft skill video about teamwork and working together as a team.

Professionalism

Kevin Martinez
Visual Design
I.T.H.S
3/5/15

     We also watch another video in soft skill and that video was about professionalism. We learned that if we have a job or work for a business company we have to have lots of professionalism in that job. Which means come to work on time and do as you are told. We also have to have great eye contact to our boss and our co-workers at and during work time. What i also learned was that you also have to be well dressed and ready to work. That was what I learned from watching the video in soft skill about professionalism.

Enthusiasm and Attitude

Kevin Martinez
Visual Design
I.T.H.S
3/5/15

   The other video we saw from soft skills was about Enthusiasm and Atttitude in your job, buisness, and school. This video was showing us how to act when we are going for a job interview or any kind of  business jobs you want to go to. You need to have a postive attituted and show your future boss that you are ready and are ready to learn. You also need to have a postive enthusiasm and be ready and willying to face the challegens ahead in your job and challegens your boss will throw at you. Thats what I learned from the Enthusiasm and Attitude video in soft skills.

Communication Skills

Kevin Martinez
Visual Design
I.T.H.S
3/5/15

              The first video we saw yesturday in class was about communication skills. It was talking about how we can improve our communication skills in our jobs, business, and school. It was saying how when don't notice our seleves when we write or talk that we are abbreviating words to people we talk to or to our papers we write. It also said that if we don't work on our communication skills people we talk to, write to, or text won't understand what we are talking about and they will be confussed. That was what we saw in the video about communication skills in the soft skills video.