MUSE Gets Silly

Last week, MUSE had to present a chapter of the BUSN 205 book to the class. We met up the night before to practice our presentation and finish up the power point. During the practice, MUSE let their silly slide show.

Avery and Pam spent most of the rehearsal hula hooping with some hula hoops in the room. Avery impressed everybody with her ability to hula hoop for several minutes at a time with two hoops. She would’ve been able to hula hoop with more, but the only hoops left were square hoops, which are a lot harder than normal hoops.

Kyle, was typical Kyle, and played with the pointer laser all night long. Andrew spent the whole time practicing how to pronounce the German word for German “deutsch” with the help of Pam. Divin decided to record everybody. Jessie sat in the back typing up the handout and spent most of the time complaining about how unused to Macs she was.

Mid-way through the meeting, Kyle decided to pull up YouTube videos to watch. He first started off with a really depressing video, which most of the group didn’t appreciate. To make up for it, Avery suggested that we watch a video about Christian the lion. Afterwards, the group decided to watch the Bedroom Intruder video and the song. Andrew wanted to find a way to incorporate it into the presentation.

Despite all of this, MUSE was still able to practice and the presentation went smoothly. And yes, Andrew was able to incorporate the Bedroom Intruder as an example in the presentation.

And We’re Off!

MUSE has obtained project approval! We are now able to officially begin working with The Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History!

We will begin with marketing BVMNH to local schools, hopefully through the PTOs. We also post flyers in all of the libraries on campus and local public libraries as well. In addition, we will create table tents for marketing on campus.

Avery and Kyle are working on awesome flyers for our marketing project! Be on the lookout for them!

MUSE will also be setting up profit shares soon to help raise money for BVMNH’s advertising fund. Time and place are not finalized as of right now, but be on the lookout for further information!

Visit their Facebook page and become a fan of BVMNH!

Project Proposal

To gain approval to work with BVMNH, MUSE had to submit a written project proposal and give a project presentation to the class.

Yesterday, we gave our presentation. In the presentation we explained our agency, why we wanted to work with them, and how we planned on helping them. We also gave a timeline of events and addressed any risks that might occur.

The presentation went smoothly! Our late night practice session really helped! The only problem was that the remote to change the power point slides stopped working. It ended up not being too bad of a problem; it just messed with our positioning a little bit.

With our written proposal, we really learned a lesson on time management. We broke the proposal into sections, with each person taking a section and set a due date to be submitted to Pam so that she could combine the paper and then we could all edit it. Unfortunately, several members were unable to submit their section on time which meant that Pam was unable to send it out early like we had planned. The consequence of this was that several members made revisions late into the night and there ended up being two versions! We were able to sort it out by the time class started, but we then found out that our proposal wasn’t due until a week later, when we actually presented! But that was ok. We didn’t have to worry about it anymore since it was done and we learned a valuable lesson.

Choosing Our Agency

MUSE wanted to pick an agency that matched our passion for arts and culture. Also, an agency that worked with children was a must. 

The first agency we looked at was The Children’s Museum. We knew it worked with children (children after all were mentioned in their name). Also, it was a museum. Museums are all about arts and culture. It sounded perfect! However, after our initial contact with them, we realized that The Children’s Museum may not be perfect for MUSE.  The Children’s Museum already had several other groups contact them. MUSE really wanted to be the only group working with our agency.

So then we turned to The Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History. It’s a museum so it met our arts and culture requirement. Our only concern was did they work with children? We were excited to find out that they do! They host birthday parties and field trips, just to name a couple. There were plenty of opportunities to interact with children! As an added plus over The Children’s Museum, there was only one other group who had contacted them and BVMNH had lots of opportunities for each group to do something different.

Visit their website to learn more about BVMNH!

Muse is very excited to work with BVMNH!

About MUSE

Howdy and welcome to MUSE’s official blog page! Here you will be able to see MUSE’s progression on our journey with our agency! 

MUSE is made up of Aggie business students Kyle, Avery, Andrew, Pam, Divin, and Jessie.

Our group was brought together by a shared passion for arts and culture and a desire to work with children (and because our professor assigned us to work together).

So the big question is why did we settle on the name MUSE for our group? We wanted to pick a name that really symbolized who we were as a group.  For the Greeks, Muses inspired literature, culture, and the arts. Our group loves the culture and the arts and we hope to inspire others to come to appreciate culture and the arts as well.