Overall capstone was an amazing experience I learned that anything I put my mind to I could do.
I could have made it better by making a slide.
I had a lot of fun doing this project it really got me to try my hardest.
This is my Final iMovie that my project was based on:
This project taught me a lot. It taught me to work my hardest.
When I heard that we had to make a TED talk or ignite, I was so angry. But now I realized that it isn’t that bad. For my presentation I made an iMovie and I have a whole TED talk planned out. I am excited but a little nervous. We have “only” been working on this project for 6 weeks. It has taken up a lot of time but I made it happen. We had to create a script and an iMovie or slideshow. That wasn’t the hard part for me, the hard part was taking all of those notes.
On blog post #7 I am going to be talking to you about how my final presentation which is tomorrow (June 20) and Tuesday (June 21). Wish me luck!!
This project was confusing and I made the best out of it so now I am becoming very successful.
My main inquiry question is,” How has Ulta beauty become successful as a retailer in makeup?” It was a very tough process answering this question from taking notes, articles, interview, site visit and even watching videos from their website.
Ulta beauty has become successful in many different ways for example, they have an amazing customer loyalty program, Ulta is a one stop shop and it is a socially responsible company.
Earlier today (May 31) I had my interview with Laurel Lefebvre who is VP in investor relations. Laurel is responsible for all of the communication with the share holders. It was a very interesting experience because I learned a lot and got a bunch of good information. For example, my interview started out by me asking, “How long has the company been in business? I asked her about the customer loyalty program and the private label business. She ended the interview with the company’s plans and goals in the next few years.
I never knew that I could learn so much from this interview.
Today I had my site visit at Ulta Beauty. It was very interesting because I got to talk to the store manager. It was an amazing experience. I would never have thought going to a store and staying there for such a long time could be so interesting. I learned a lot about all of the brands and services and just the company itself. I learned a lot more than I could have learned from the internet. Their website has a lot but seeing it person is even better. Their website is http://www.ulta.com/. I mostly took pictures of there private label branded products and their shelves of fragrance. I did a scavenger hunt and identified gift sets, exclusives, prestige brands, Men’s skincare, salon nail polish and mass market brands. I obtained a menu/price list from the salon and some materials about the loyalty program. Finally, I took home some private label nail polish and hand soap.
My grade is doing a project called Capstone. The assignment is to choose a topic that you are interested in then come up with a main research question, until you get your interview…
My topic is Ulta beauty. I chose this topic because my aunt works with Ulta as well as other retail companies. I am interested in makeup and beauty. I am also interested in Ulta because it is an one stop shop. A one stop shop is a store that sells all different brands and offers services, so it’s like a few different stores in one. Some famous brands that Ulta includes are Lancome, L’oreal, Benefit, Clinique and Chanel.
I ended up with my main question being, “How is Ulta becoming successful as a retailer of makeup?”
Just recently I finished creating my sub questions and created my main inquiry question. It has taken a while but I finally completed my sub questions and my main inquiry question. I am really proud of all of my questions but my favorite is. “Is Ulta a socially responsible company?” My topic is Ulta beauty. Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, is a chain of beauty stores in the United States. Ulta Beauty carries cosmetics and skincare brands, men’s and women’s fragrances, and haircare products. Each store is also equipped with a salon. The company is headquartered in Bolingbrook, Illinois.
Creating my sub questions was a tough process but eventually it got easier. My main inquiry question was very hard to come up with because I had a bunch of ideas but I couldn’t figure out the correct wording. My main question came to be, “How is Ulta beauty become successful as a retailer in makeup?”
In class today my teacher assigned my class to write about the energy (Mechanical, potential and kinetic) for our rube Goldberg project.
A Rube Goldberg Machine: A simple task done in a complicated manner.
My Rube Goldberg team consists of Hope, Tessa and me. For this project, my team has to create a seven to ten step Rube Goldberg machine that in the end will complete a simple task.
So far, we have discovered and tried three different attempts on creating our Rube Goldberg machine. Our first attempt came out a little to much like a fantasy and it was not very realistic. For example, one of the steps was supposed to have a can send a basketball rolling and then knock a water bottle bottle off a table. It must include a lot of force that the can did not have.
Our second attempt had contained some good and not so good steps.This led us to our third design. We were extra careful choosing steps for this design. We took some of the steps from the first and second design and came up with the rest.
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20% time is a time that we express our ideas to make a class arcade. We got the idea to have twenty percent time from Google. We were inspired by Caine a boy from California who made some cool cardboard arcade games, he has a whole website he showed us that all of the cardboard and scraps that we just throw out or recycle can make one of the coolest arcades.
This is what the Whack-A-Mole game looked like before we painted it.
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Too Hot Too Handle In class my teacher assigned the class to finish watching Too Hot To Handle on History Channel she asked us to tell write a post about what all of the people did in different ways… All of the men in million dollar genius have a problem with something that they see in their everyday life. For example, Ron Foxcroft was a referee in basketball and he noticed the old whistle was hard to hear, The pea would sometimes get stuck and The whistle would sometimes break. Another example is Jay Sorenson was a real estate agent and his office was right across the street from Starbucks and he saw everybody walking out of Starbucks holding the cup with the tip of their fingers because it was too hot to handle. Lastly Todd Greene got inspired because he was a big fan of Michael Jordan and he thought to himself,”Why don’t I shave my head?” When he shaved his head he had one problem he barely could reach the very back of his head. The comparison that Ron Foxcroft, Jay Sorensen and Todd Greene have is they don’t sell enough of there product and feel they have to give up but they give themselves one more chance to be successful “Going though this process builds a desire to keep trying and trying even when people say you can’t do it.”says Jay Sorensen.They all felt that same way and were very successful Ron Foxcroft Sold over a million Fox 40 whistles Jay Sorensen sold 700 million Java Jackets in a year and Todd Greene sold over 40 million dollars in sales.
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