Blog 24: Last Presentation Reflection

1) Positive Statement

• The senior project does give you the push you need to come out of your comfort zone. for example you have to talk to people where you wouldn't see yourself. 
• I'm proud of going through my final presentation and making time because i get so nervous when presenting to people and also of completing the senior year as a whole because it was a struggle
• I know that my presentation skills are the best but it does the work in tell the people what the objective is.
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(2) Questions to Consider
a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your block presentation?  Use the component contract to defend that assessment.
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b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project? Use the component contract to defend that assessment.

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(3) What worked for you in your senior project?

• Through my senior project the components helped me understand more on the aspect of the financial state in the food industry. 

(4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your senior project?

• The changes that I would make in my senior project are the my mentor because we was there but I would of like for him to be more involve in the project as compared to other mentors.

(5) Finding Value
How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors?   Be specific and use examples.of in your block presentation and/or your senior project? Why?

• the senior project help me get out there and talk to people I'll never talk to and give me different skill of presenting for a large group of people. 

Exit Interview

(1) What is your essential question, and what are your answer? What is your best answer and why?

• When implementing a food product, how does a company maximize profit while maintaining the food quality control? 
• First Answer: A company can maximize profit will maintaining quality control is by selecting the absolute type of food product and location being sold.
• Second Answer: A company can maximize profit will maintaining quality control is having a loyalty for your customer and communication.
• Third Answer: When implementing a food product, how can a company maximize the profit while maintaining quality control, the company need to have a presentation of the product.
• the best answer of these three answers will be the three of the answer because each element give a part so that the product becomes successful. 

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

• Throughout the phase of my senior project the research on line gave me the same outcome has the rest, but the interviews I made with my mentor,production manager, and the sales rep. The book " The New Rules of Retail" gave me a boost of the retail world. The independent components have a large part of the answer too. 

(3) What problem did you face? How did you resolve them?

• Within the period of the senior project I came through obstacles as to have the same information in the articles online, but I searched books that involves my topic. and gave me more information.  

(4) What are the two most significant source you used to answer your essential question and why?

• The book " The New Rules of Retail", Interviews(1-4)/Some articles
• the reason that I chose these two sources is because of the information each one give and has significance examples toward what it's talking. 

Blog 22: Independent Component 2

LITERAL

(a) Include this statement: “I, Jose Aceves, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 32 hours of work.”

(b)Online class: Accounting & Bookkeeping 101 fro everyone  

(c)Senior Hours link

(d) Explain what you completed.  

• In this online class I took I'm exploring the financial field of the business and also is gives me a look of how the accounting affect the business routine as to what come in that what come out.

(e) Defend your work and explain the component's significance and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.   

(f)How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped.

• As for my EQ ,how can a company maximize profits while maintaining the quality control, I took this online class so that I can learn the aspect of the financial business.

Blog 20: Interview 4 Preparation

1.  Who do you plan to interview?  What is this person's area of expertise?

• I am planning to interview a sale representation his name is Oskar Ruiz. He is responsible of obtaining new customers into the company currently they obtain the store from "food4less" distributors to expand the company. The reason that i wasn't able to interview him was because of the schedule. 

2.  Post 20 open-ended questions you want to ask an expert in the field concerning your senior project. Your focus should be finding answers to your EQ.

1. Can you tell me what you do as a sales representative of Don Pedro’s Meat?
2. As a sales rep you are in charge of selling retail products, goods and services to customers. What are the different strategies you have for the product to be sold? 
3. From your experience in this industry, what would make a retail product be accepted in the community? And what would not?
4. What are different ways that a retail product is rejected by the audience?
5. In this company, what products have been unsuccessful currently or in the past? Why?
6. How can a food product be successful in the food industry? 
7. How do you deal with your competition?
8. What are you doing differently compared to the other sales reps?
9. How do you convince the buyer to buy the product? Is there a different way to attract the audience?
10. How can a company maximize profits, while maintaining quality control?

Blog 19: Third Answer

EQ: 

• When implementing a food product, how can a company maximize the profit while maintaining quality control?

Answer #3 (Write in a complete sentence like a thesis statement)*

• When implementing a food product, how can a company maximize the profit while maintaining quality control, the company need to have an "smarter access"

3 details to support the answer:

• this answer falls into different observation one is the access of the customer
• Second, faster access of the product
• Third,communication with the customer 

The research source(s) to support your details and answer:

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Concluding Sentence:

• A product can be maximized in having a "smarter access"

Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?

• When implementing a food product, how can company maximize profits while maintaining quality control?

2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

• When implementing a food product, how can company maximize profits while maintaining quality control, the company can maximize the profit by selecting a type of food product that can give you the best profit and the location where it will being sold.

3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

• When implementing a food product, how can company maximize profits while maintaining quality control, the company can maximize the profit by having a loyalty for your consumer vies-versa.

4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

• Most of the companies have customers that have been with them since the beginning.
• As for the quality, in my interview two the production manager stated that the quality is the main source where the customers can be contributing in the company.
• For both of the options loyalty and quality have to go together because if the customer enjoys the product.

5.  What printed source best supports your answer?

• The New Rules of Retail: Competing in the World's Toughest Marketplace

6.  What other source supports your answer?

• Source # 45: Way, Jay. "What Steps Do Companies Take to Maximize Profit or Minimize Loss?" Small Business. Smallbusiness.chron.com, 30 Dec. 2015. Web. 05 Feb. 2016. <http://smallbusiness.chron.com/steps-companies-maximize-profit-minimize-loss-41526.html>.
• Source # 47: Watson, Elaine. "The State of the US Food Retail Market: Slower and Negative Growth... and Rediscovering Walmart." FoodNavigator-USA.com. Foodnavigator-usa, 4 Oct. 2012. Web. 18 Feb. 2016. <http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Markets/The-state-of-the-US-food-retail-market-Slower-and-negative-growth-and-rediscovering-Walmart>.

7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought.

• A food retail product can be maximize while maintaining the quality by having a connection with the customers.

Blog 17 - Interview 3 Reflection

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  

• The most important thing i learned from this interview is that the quality of the product is the main object of the product, also the competition you can deal with it by just making it better in quality and the flavor of it.

2.  How has your approach to interviewing changed over the course of your senior project?

• This interview has been different from the rest of the others because the question are more in the the direction that i want to go to compare to the interview before their were more into the subject of the food industry. 

Blog 16: Independent Component 2 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

• I planning to talk to the different sale representative in the company to obtain the different views that the consumers have with the products. Plus I'm planning also to have a survey printed out ask the customers questions about the product and what they prefer a product needs to have.
• My other option is to take a online class in the la county library for 32 hours.  

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

• To show evidence, I will have the surveys signed by the customers and for the talks i will take down note on what we talk about. 

3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.

• This component will help me explore more in depth because it will help me understand what the consumer wants and their prioritizes on the product.   

4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log.

• Independent Component

Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
  (a) Write: “I, Jose Aceves, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
  (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.
• Consuelo Aceves, who is the production manager in "Don Pedro's Meat", Also my mentor Andres Jaramillo Helped me complete my independent component.
• (c) Update your hours in your Senior Project Hours link. Make sure it is clearly labeled with hours for individual sessions as well as total hours.
• Senior Project Hours
• (d) Explain what you completed. 
• I've competed on how a product can be best made on its faster time. Also I worked with different products in which other once take more time in being produce,   
• INTERPRETIVE 
  Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  
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• Throughout my 30 hours of the first component I was placed in different areas of the plantation, which that helped me understand the process of how a food product is process. 
• APPLIED
  How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this.
• The component helped me understand that you have to take time so that the result of the numbers come to live. In other words , some products need time to react in the numbers or that the consumers have to react to it. 

Lesson 2 Reflection

1. What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?

• The most thing that I'm most proud of is that I made time because a day before I was short in time.

2. a. What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

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     b. Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.

• The reason that I gave this grade to myself is because i wasn't prepare enough compare to the first lesson. Also I was over confident, which I was ready for the presentation, but i was ready. 

3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?

• This lesson 2 presentation was sort of the same to the first but you needed to have an activity that will show the students how you got the answer.

4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?

• The activity wasn't how i planned because it was a disaster, one group wasn't doing it they were doing something else. If i had to change any thing is the activity so that it could be more  enjoyable.

5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?

• I was going to input this answer in my first  one but i thought it was to much. For my answer #2 in my senior project is going to be, for a company to maximize their product while maintaining quality control by having less expensive or more organic or have a great promotion for the product you are willing to sale. 

Third Interview Preparation

1.  Who do you plan to interview?  What is this person's area of expertise?

• I am planning to interview a sale representation his name is Oskar Ruiz. He is responsible of obtaining new customers into the company currently they obtain the store from "food4less" distributors to expand the company. 

2.  Verify that you have called your interviewee to schedule an interview.  What is the date and time of the interview? 

• I have not schedule with the interviewee the date and time for the interview but we have talked about it.  

3.  Phrase an open-ended question that will help you find research resources that would help to answer the EQ

• As from your experience what do you suggest that I read to find the information that I need.

4.  Phrase an open-ended question that will help you think about other useful activities you might do to help you answer the EQ (IC2, possible experts to talk to, etc).

• To know the information within my EQ what would you recommend me to do?

5.  Phrase two open-ended questions that help you to understand your interviewee's perspective on an aspect of your EQ. 

• I'd like to help you find the best possible information. Can you tell me more about what you do with specific details?
• I'd be interested in knowing how you will answer my EQ?

Blog 13: 10 Hour Mentorship Check-In

1.Where are you doing your mentorship?

• For my mentorship I still going with the same mentor who is helping me on the best way the profit come from.  

2.Who is your contact?  What makes this person an expert?

• My contact is Andres Jaramillo a owner of "Don Pedro's Meat" . Andres has been in the industry for over 10 years in this business so i think he has a n    

3.How many  hours have you done during the school year? .

• I have done 107 hours during school year with my mentor.

4.Succinctly summarize what you did, how well you and your mentor worked together, and how you plan to complete the remaining hours.

• When I arrive to my mentors office I quickly go straight to the office assistant because that's where I obtain the customerlist that I call. After I'm done calling the customers, I file papers and obtain the knowledge on what sale more and way. Sometime I can talk to the customers that come and buy the products   

Blog 12: Holiday Project Update

1.  It is important to consistently work on your senior project, whether it is break or we are in school.  What did you do over the break with your senior project?
During the winter break have made 16 hours more for senior project. 

2.  What was the most important thing you learned from what you did, and why?  What was the source of what you learned?
As for the things I learn was have pasions with people within the business because some to the customers don't pay on the right time.
 
3.  Your third interview will be a 10 question interview related to possible answers for your EQ. Who do you plan to talk to and why?
For my three interview I'm planning to interview a sales representitives because they have view the reaction within the product selling.