Associated Students Organization travels to Sacramento
Mihiri Weerasinghe
Issue date: 10/29/09 Section: News
Guest speakers, comedians, and artists made the 2009 California Community College Student Affairs Association conference in Sacramento a great experience for the Associated Students Organization (ASO) and the Inter-Club Council (ICC).
Vice president of ICC, Chris Pham, said that more than 500 students attended the conference.
" There were so many students from all across California and the atmosphere there gave me this incredible feeling, because they are the most powerful people on all of the campuses," Pham said.
Pham also said that it was not just the workshops that taught him but just meeting all the different people that attended.
Ana Safazada, president of ICC said that there was an entire Double Tree Hotel, which was reserved for the conference.
" We had a lot of different things going on. The whole conference consisted of workshops, breakfasts, lunches, and dinners with entertainment," Safazada said.
Safazada said that there were many inspirational speakers who came out to inspire students to become better leaders.
"All the workshops were directed and targeted towards student leaders to help them out with any of their weaknesses or the problems that students face now," Safazada said.
Safazada said that there were different workshops that were available and that they had the option of choosing whichever one they thought would benefit them the most.
"I attended two workshops. One was tinkering with teamwork, which a lot of my ICC members attended with me," Safazada said. "I thought this was really important because we all need to learn to work together."
Safazada said that she did one exercise where the class was separated into groups and then had to build a structure in a limited amount of time.
" It really pushed us to not only work with people that we had just met but also to listen to others. It forced us to use our listening skills and helped us to realize that working together is the only way to establish a goal," Safazada said.
Vice president of ICC, Chris Pham, said that more than 500 students attended the conference.
" There were so many students from all across California and the atmosphere there gave me this incredible feeling, because they are the most powerful people on all of the campuses," Pham said.
Pham also said that it was not just the workshops that taught him but just meeting all the different people that attended.
Ana Safazada, president of ICC said that there was an entire Double Tree Hotel, which was reserved for the conference.
" We had a lot of different things going on. The whole conference consisted of workshops, breakfasts, lunches, and dinners with entertainment," Safazada said.
Safazada said that there were many inspirational speakers who came out to inspire students to become better leaders.
"All the workshops were directed and targeted towards student leaders to help them out with any of their weaknesses or the problems that students face now," Safazada said.
Safazada said that there were different workshops that were available and that they had the option of choosing whichever one they thought would benefit them the most.
"I attended two workshops. One was tinkering with teamwork, which a lot of my ICC members attended with me," Safazada said. "I thought this was really important because we all need to learn to work together."
Safazada said that she did one exercise where the class was separated into groups and then had to build a structure in a limited amount of time.
" It really pushed us to not only work with people that we had just met but also to listen to others. It forced us to use our listening skills and helped us to realize that working together is the only way to establish a goal," Safazada said.
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