The Fluno Center

For the Event Planning program I am in one of the basic classes I'm taking is Fundamentals of Meeting Management. This is one of my online classes where our only contact with other students and our teacher is thorough email and our discussion board. This Monday we had a tour arranged at the Fluno Center which is a conference center run in conjunction with the UW. This class has been really frustrating because we get a lot of details, checklists, time lines, information like that, but very little on the abstract idea of what kinds of events are planned, how to decide what elements to include, etc. The topic we've been covering recently is RFP's (Request for Proposals, everything in this class has some sort of abbreviation or acronym) and Site Inspections. By having this tour we were finally able to apply some of what we had learned and read in our textbook (which is incredibly poorly written by the way) to what we would be dealing with in the real world. Our final project, which we've been working on all semester, is to put together all the elements of planning an event with out actually planning it. For the event I'm planning (...maybe I'll explain it in a later post, it'll take too long here) which is an expo would not work in this conference center at all. So on the practicality of this tour it wasn't all that helpful at all. I still feel like the idea of planning events is slowly coming together for all of us. Our program is small enough and laid out so that we are with a lot of the same students in all of our classes so we can compare what we've learned and our ideas for our events. Now all I need to do it get my paper work processed so I can sign up for Spring classes...