NACURH Winner |
Month: April 2018 |
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Social Program of the Month |
| NRHH Presents: Miami's Got Talent | |
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Miami University |
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CAACURH |
Person in charge: |
Dr. Richard L. Nault Chapter of NRHH |
Nominator: |
Caitlyn Bell |
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Target Population: 250 |
Time Needed to Organize: 1 semester |
Number of People in Attendance: 200 |
Date(s) of Program: April 6, 2018 |
Number of People Needed to Organize: 6 |
Cost of Program: $2,600 |
On-Campus Population: 8100 |
Chapter Size: 80 |
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Origin of Program: Caity Bell, the president of NRHH at Miami University, decided to host a talent show to
recognize the talents of those individuals who may not always be given an opportunity to
showcase how wonderful they are. Since Miami does not have a large scale event that
allows people to showcase their talents without joining a singing, dancing, comedy club,
etc. an opportunity to host a talent show is the perfect chance to let people perform for
a night and have the chance to win a prize. Caity encouraged the executive board to
host their first talent show last year and it was so successful that they hosted a second
one this year. Miami University has an organization dedicated to late night programming
(Late Night Miami) to help sway students from drinking. This organization partners with
other organizations to fund late night events that the organization might not be able to
fund by themselves. By partnering with Late Night Miami, NRHH was able to make this
year's talent show much bigger than last years. Word Count: 174 |
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Please give a short description of the program: Miami's Got Talent was a large scale talent show aimed at recruiting those who do not
always have the opportunity to showcase what they are talented at. NRHH put on this
talent show in an effort to recognize members of the student body for a couple of
things. The first way that NRHH intended for Miami's Got Talent to recognize members
of the student body was by encouraging them to show the world their talent. The
second way NRHH intended to recognize members of the student body was by
applauding them for being brave enough to get on stage and perform. While every
participant could not win a grand prize, every participant was given an NRHH t-shirt
as a small token of our appreciation for them. Throughout the night we had twelve
different contestants whose talents ranged from singing to dancing to comedy to
poetry and last but not least unicycling. We were able to have four grand prizes. A 55
inch Roku TV being the first place prize, a Nintendo Switch for second place, Beats
Powerbeats for third place, and a Roku Ultra for fourth place. In order to keep the
audience engaged, we also provided a thousand dollars worth of door prizes. We
collected names on raffle tickets as audience members swiped into our event. To
encourage the audience to stay the duration of the event, we allowed them to vote at
the end using a Google Form. However, we also drew names for various door prizes
throughout the show. Most of the door prizes were drawn in between acts or during
our intermission; however, we did make sure to save a decent amount of them to raffle
off during the voting portion of the talent show. Miami's Got Talent started at 9 pm
and lasted until approximately 11:30 pm. Our executive board and a few members
arrived at the Student Center Theater at 7:15 pm to begin setting up and preparing
things for our audience and our acts. We required all of our acts to arrive at 8 pm to
begin mic checks and for us to have a brief overview of what they would be doing
during the show. We had 200 people in attendance throughout the night. 60 people
used our Snapchat filter allowing over 1,500 to see it. Miami's Got Talent was so
popular our student-run newspaper wrote an article about its success. Word Count: 400 |
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Goals of the program: The goals of Miami's Got Talent were fairly simple. Our biggest goal was to provide a
fun, alcohol alternative event; however, this was not our main goal. With recognition
being one of our pillars, our most important goal was to host an event that recognized
the bravery of our participants. It is very hard to get up on a stage and perform in front
of 200 of your peers. We also wanted to host an event that provided individuals with
hidden talents and opportunity to showcase their talents to the world and be
recognized for how unique they truly are. Another less important goal we had was to
host a large scale event that would help increase awareness of our organization. We
put our logo on all fliers, in the Snapchat filter, in the name of the event, and we
passed out our t-shirts to the participants. While the main goal was to recognize the
participants, we did also want others to be able to learn more about our organization
and what we stand for. We hope that after Miami's Got Talent they will begin
recognizing the talents of one another so we can have more participants next year. Word Count: 200 |
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Positive and lasting effects of the program: Miami's Got Talent had several positive and lasting effects. First, it provided a way for
more people to learn what NRHH is and what we stand for. Second, it allowed our
participants to recognized by others for the hard work they put into preparing their
acts but also for the uniqueness of their talents. With this, we also had a couple of
contestants tell us that because of our event they might join a club so they can
showcase their talents more frequently. Third, we were able to provide an alcohol
alternative event to two hundred Miami students on a Friday night. Another positive
effect was that we were able to gift grand prizes to four people and door prizes to an
additional fifty people. We were also able to give every participant a t-shirt so that all
of them were able to walk away with something. At the end of the day, the one effect I
consider to be the most positive and longest lasting was hearing the contestants
thank our organization for providing them a platform in which they felt encouraged to
be themselves and show us their talents. Word Count: 192 |
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Short evaluation of the program: Miami's Got Talent was an overall success. We were able to achieve all of our goals
and we definitely made the contestants feel valued. While we did have a small incident
where one of our acts made an inappropriate joke, we were able to act fast and
recover. There were small hiccups that could have been fixed such as getting door
prizes onto the stage but all and all the talent show ran smoothly. We had all six
executive board members running the show plus an emcee and seven additional
NRHH members doing various jobs. We had just enough people working to ensure the
success of the show. We had two people working with acts to get them on stage;
however, next time we will suggest the acts all sit together in the front row to make it
easier on us to find them and send them backstage to prepare. We had two people
checking people in and an additional four people working with door prizes. These
were the people who would bring the door prizes to the stage. In the future, it would
be helpful to have more people with door prizes and fewer people for tech support. Word Count: 200 |
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How could this program be adapted to other campuses? This program could easily be adapted to other campuses. First and foremost another
school could change the name to represent their school. If your school name doe not
necessarily sounds right, you could also use your mascot. As far as budgeting goes,
we would highly encourage partnering with other organizations so that you can have a
larger budget to buy nicer grand prizes and door prizes. We hosted ours in a theater
on campus; however, it could very easily be mimicked in any room where you could
create a stage and have microphones. When it comes to selecting what prizes to win,
it is important to look at what are popular items on your campus but also what
students at your university could use the most. As far as recruiting people to help
work the event, we would encourage having your executive board be very hands-on;
however, it is also helpful to open it up as a service event to members. Overall, the
event was not very university specific and could very easily be adapted to other
campuses.Word Count: 178 |
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