Monday, September 7, 2009
Champion Schools: Summit Elementary
Hi! My name is Brian Matsumoto and I'm a senior BiS major in business and recreation management graduating in December. I spent my first two years at ASU trying to get into WP Carey for economics and marketing but didn't have the grades. During that time I took PRM 120 (leisure and quality of life) with my roommate and later, after hearing about the sports management class, decided that PRM would be my other concentration. I've played sports all my life and known that I wanted to be a businessman so sports agency is my dream career. I've never been into white water rafting and camping but for the last two summers I have worked with kids at Tempe's Escalante Community center and as it turns out, I enjoy recreation and management. I met the athletic director and principal of the school I work at through business associates and they have worked to accommodate me ever since. Champion Schools is an athlete charter school with its main campus, Summit Elementary, located downtown by the Phoenix library. I have a pretty unique position there because I don't have one specialty. I help coach and train kids in the mornings and work on marketing with their partner ProVentures in my other spare time. I also have tutoring as a secondary responsibility. So far I have helped with facebook tutorials for the faculty and staff and also put together blogs for the school website. The first week was logistically a little hectic because the enrollment nearly doubled this year and there were initially three different campuses so I was able to help with that. I had an internship last year in marketing at Athletes Performance, where some of the coaches have learned their methods so I'm experienced in the same practices. I hope to obtain contacts and greater knowledge from the CEO of ProVentures who used to be the Director of Marketing for Octagon, a prominent sports and entertainment agency. I want to get into sports marketing and an internship at ProVentures in Virginia is my goal for next year.
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I found your blog very interesting. When I first came to ASU I was accepted into the W.P. Carey School of Business, but ended up switching majors because I wanted to do something in music. In my second year at ASU I realized marketing is really what I wanted to be doing, but like you I couldn’t get back into the W.P. Carey School because of grades. I think you will go far in your career choice, you seem like you already have a head start! I am taking a similar approach to my career choice as you are, except instead of recreational management I plan to work in marketing for music and film production firms. I saw in your blog you are helping the staff with Facebook and social networking, I am also doing the same thing for my applied site. It’s kind of fun being the student and the teacher at the same time. Good luck with your final year at ASU!
ReplyDeleteBrian it seems as if things are falling right into place for you at Summit Elementary! I too picked up and felt all of the mixture of emotions that were present during my time in the class for the first time. Considering the amount of time you are putting in with your students along with the variety of activities, it should be very easy for you to make a career decision regardless of the field due to your interaction and overall exposure with teachers and students.I think that internships like this open us students eyes in a variety of ways therefore creating new avenues of interest and success. Do you think that since enrollment doubled since last year that resources are going to be stretched out too thin? What are some of the frequent questions that emerge when you had to help faculty with the facebook? What other type of responsibilities are you expecting to encounter?Hope to see what they have in store next week for you.
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