Time: 4:30pm-6pm
Attendance: All
Venue: Classroom


This is it. FYP2 is here. Our topic is “Research and Evaluate the Effectiveness of an Industry Event in Promoting Sustainable Support for a Social Enterprise in Cambodia”. I will be working together with Jas, Sherwin, Ash and Asri on this project.

The first time I read the topic, I was already scratching my head. I mean a typical first step upon seeing a topic like that would be to analyze what it is about. I analyze the topic mentally and this is what I understand.

[The need to research and evaluate means that we have to identify the methodologies that we could use in order for us to carry out the research as well as to evaluate. The effectiveness is how well or not is something when it is done. There are different kinds of Industry Event. It could be an Open House, exhibition or even a fair. Promoting sustainable support is how the support could be use and then maintained. &&& I wasn’t sure what was Social Enterprise is all about =\ ]

With the unsure-ness and also to get the blur me on track, the objective of this first meeting is to introduce my team and me to the project and also to help us understand what industry event is all about.


Discussion About:

- What are the various roles and responsibility of each team member?
- What is an industry event?
- Research has to be done to find out more about industry events in terms of open house concept.


To start with, Haris (FYP Advisor) helps us to understand what our topic is about. He also introduces us to the exact organization that we will be promoting in regards to our project. He showed us an introduction of the organization so that we are able to focus on the particular organization and not only touching things generally.

With the introduction, somehow we decided to have an Open House for our Industry Event. As a start, we had to look into the concept, target audiences as well as roles and responsibilities of each member. Having decided to focus on hosting an open house, there various factors that we thought we need to consider. Things like where we are going to find our resources from, how we communicate with the locals there when needed or who we can revert to if we need help in sourcing for logistic items.

At the end of this meeting, I had a better understanding of what is expected from the topic even though I had trouble understanding it at first. At the same time having a head start on where my team and I could start with gives us the motivation to strive for this work to be done. Somehow, I am glad that I could actually revert to my team members whenever I need their help.

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