CTE Expo Reflection Journal

         The CTE Expo is an event held every year where freshman visit all the CTE academies and choose which one they want to apply to. The people who organize the event are the CTE academies. The sophomores, juniors and seniors and the teacher are the ones that help organize the whole event. We display our work for the freshman to go around, look and ask questions. The CTE expo took place in the web design academy. The CTE expo took place on February 12 this year. We finished presenting our project boards and placed them in the middle of the classroom on the tables and on some of the computers.
         We prepared for it by dressing up professionally and coming to the web design academy 2 times other than 7th period. When we came in, we welcomed freshman and showed them around the room. There were a class for each period that freshman could come in with their class and take a look.
They looked at the computer animations on the computer and websites of the juniors and seniors. They also looked at the boards and we explained to them how we created our project. The steps we used and the parts we liked and found hard. There were people at the door handing out flyers and we guided them to our work. The reason why the CTE Expo was held was so that the freshman can choose an academy that they like and try to get in. They can get an idea of what happens in web design and what type of work they would be able to do if they are in the academy.
        We can try to persuade the freshman into joining our academy throughout the event. The results were good. People were looking around and they seemed interested. I talked to few freshman and told them about my process of making the business card project board and also a few labs and other projects we did. Some of the examples were the lab where we took pictures from the different types of angles, the Warhol project where we made pop art, the labs where we experimented with the different types of brush and vector shapes tool. Also creating a logo and business card for a company that we choose.