Hi friends!
The purpose of this blog is to share with you guys, the events and situations that lead to the failure of my event hosted in Daksh 2010, a quiz on astronomy, by the name "Cosmic Panorama".
I am an astronomy freak. Night skies have always fascinated me. That crush has even led me to make a visit to ISRO, SriHarikota which only enhanced my interest. So, when I returned to the college, I had a thought of organizing some event that shows how interesting and fascinating astronomy is..
After a long pause, me and two of my friends, came up with an idea of conducting astronomy quiz. This may not be very interesting, but that is all we could think of!! May be this is the FIRST thing you should not do. i.e., don't contain yourself with the thought you got first, keep thinking, you could get a better one, like, some Jeopardy style, creative solutions type, like that. Appeals more than a quiz,right?? Alright, then we shared our thoughts in the meetings. They liked it!! They want to keep my event under shunyakaal and the organizer of shunyakaal asked me to submit 20 sample questions and he want to evaluate the quality.
Its time to form a team to do this task. Now this is where a lot of people fail(I failed here). I do not mean that the people who worked with me for the event are not supporting or hardworking. It is just that they are not ready for such things and they lack passion and vigor for astronomy. They might have been good at many other things, but not this!! So, here is the SECOND thing you should not do. Don't fill your team with people you know,just because they will think something bad if you don't take them. If you want your idea to win credits, you should work with people who share your passion and interest.
Happened is happened. I prepared the questions with little assistance from my team mates. I am glad that we crossed our check-point and they accepted our event. Now, we are supposed to submit the format of the game and make everything ready well before Daksh 2010. We have submitted the format of the game and time now has come to decide the equipment and support we need. Here is the THIRD thing you should avoid. Don't be numb or don't try to obey what your seniors say, demand what you want and get them upright. Because, you know, many of a times they have all the resources, its just that they may not be really interested in what you are doing, or there may also be some genuine reasons.
This third one is my next major mistake. Anyways, we are all set for Daksh. Its just a few days away. We have done a lot of work to make the event successful. In fact, just for the sake of the event, we have learnt using the powerpoint in a more professional way. Of course we have copied a few things from the internet... :)
Here is the next thing you should DO. Trust your teammates fully. Share your work and believe that they will do it with the perfection required. This is what I have failed to do. I did not trust them fully. As a result, I have done most of the work which drained me inside out. Friends!! Please avoid this.
Now, the night before the big day, we were asked to come to the room of shunyakaal organizer, and he asked us to change the format overnight by introducing a new level to screen people. He said that, as if 1000 people are going to attend the event. I know, by my heart that this would not work. I dare not to go on my own way. "What if I fail?" is the question I had in my heart. Now the fourth thing is "play by your rules, do what you feel is right. Take risks. Don't feel sorry for yourself at later time. It is you who are most responsible for the outcome, not others"
As a result of adding the preliminary round defeated the whole fragrance of the event, as I wanted the first round to be open house. People turned for the event fairly well. I thought, the same trend would follow!!Guess what.. I am wrong. Utterly mistaken.
We were allotted Nirman vihar audi for the second round. We asked for buzzers, 10 hand mikes, so as to conduct an open house in an easy way.But then, our cluster head said he could not arrange any of that. Now, we should plan an alternative. That too, in a few minutes!! We should have thought about this situation. I really felt that I have done a mistake for not thinking of alternatives while planning.. This is the 5th thing. Never go for the event without having alternatives in mind. Because, anything could possibly go wrong and you should be ready to atleast some of them.
Without having adequate mikes, we resorted to writing method which is utterly flop.
And here is the last thing.. This is not about what you should not do.. Rather, this is about what you should do. Once you want to be the host of the event, be as jovial as possible and entertain the audience or participants with your jokes, short facts about the core topic in the event, addressing the participants by name,wherever possible, and stuff like that. In fact, this may determine the success intensity of your event..
GOOD LUCK to all those who are going to conduct events in the future. .
This article particularly pertains to auditorium centric events. I am really thankful to the readers.
I will be glad with your comments and I will try to improve the quality of my blogging.
The purpose of this blog is to share with you guys, the events and situations that lead to the failure of my event hosted in Daksh 2010, a quiz on astronomy, by the name "Cosmic Panorama".
I am an astronomy freak. Night skies have always fascinated me. That crush has even led me to make a visit to ISRO, SriHarikota which only enhanced my interest. So, when I returned to the college, I had a thought of organizing some event that shows how interesting and fascinating astronomy is..
After a long pause, me and two of my friends, came up with an idea of conducting astronomy quiz. This may not be very interesting, but that is all we could think of!! May be this is the FIRST thing you should not do. i.e., don't contain yourself with the thought you got first, keep thinking, you could get a better one, like, some Jeopardy style, creative solutions type, like that. Appeals more than a quiz,right?? Alright, then we shared our thoughts in the meetings. They liked it!! They want to keep my event under shunyakaal and the organizer of shunyakaal asked me to submit 20 sample questions and he want to evaluate the quality.
Its time to form a team to do this task. Now this is where a lot of people fail(I failed here). I do not mean that the people who worked with me for the event are not supporting or hardworking. It is just that they are not ready for such things and they lack passion and vigor for astronomy. They might have been good at many other things, but not this!! So, here is the SECOND thing you should not do. Don't fill your team with people you know,just because they will think something bad if you don't take them. If you want your idea to win credits, you should work with people who share your passion and interest.
Happened is happened. I prepared the questions with little assistance from my team mates. I am glad that we crossed our check-point and they accepted our event. Now, we are supposed to submit the format of the game and make everything ready well before Daksh 2010. We have submitted the format of the game and time now has come to decide the equipment and support we need. Here is the THIRD thing you should avoid. Don't be numb or don't try to obey what your seniors say, demand what you want and get them upright. Because, you know, many of a times they have all the resources, its just that they may not be really interested in what you are doing, or there may also be some genuine reasons.
This third one is my next major mistake. Anyways, we are all set for Daksh. Its just a few days away. We have done a lot of work to make the event successful. In fact, just for the sake of the event, we have learnt using the powerpoint in a more professional way. Of course we have copied a few things from the internet... :)
Here is the next thing you should DO. Trust your teammates fully. Share your work and believe that they will do it with the perfection required. This is what I have failed to do. I did not trust them fully. As a result, I have done most of the work which drained me inside out. Friends!! Please avoid this.
Now, the night before the big day, we were asked to come to the room of shunyakaal organizer, and he asked us to change the format overnight by introducing a new level to screen people. He said that, as if 1000 people are going to attend the event. I know, by my heart that this would not work. I dare not to go on my own way. "What if I fail?" is the question I had in my heart. Now the fourth thing is "play by your rules, do what you feel is right. Take risks. Don't feel sorry for yourself at later time. It is you who are most responsible for the outcome, not others"
As a result of adding the preliminary round defeated the whole fragrance of the event, as I wanted the first round to be open house. People turned for the event fairly well. I thought, the same trend would follow!!Guess what.. I am wrong. Utterly mistaken.
We were allotted Nirman vihar audi for the second round. We asked for buzzers, 10 hand mikes, so as to conduct an open house in an easy way.But then, our cluster head said he could not arrange any of that. Now, we should plan an alternative. That too, in a few minutes!! We should have thought about this situation. I really felt that I have done a mistake for not thinking of alternatives while planning.. This is the 5th thing. Never go for the event without having alternatives in mind. Because, anything could possibly go wrong and you should be ready to atleast some of them.
Without having adequate mikes, we resorted to writing method which is utterly flop.
And here is the last thing.. This is not about what you should not do.. Rather, this is about what you should do. Once you want to be the host of the event, be as jovial as possible and entertain the audience or participants with your jokes, short facts about the core topic in the event, addressing the participants by name,wherever possible, and stuff like that. In fact, this may determine the success intensity of your event..
GOOD LUCK to all those who are going to conduct events in the future. .
This article particularly pertains to auditorium centric events. I am really thankful to the readers.
I will be glad with your comments and I will try to improve the quality of my blogging.
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