C4E Week 6 In Class

This week during class the Foam Home mainly focused on creating our presentation.  I put together an initial version of our powerpoint with a heavy focus on visuals.  While it may have looked good, because our projects is heavily numbers based it didn't give the viewer a better understanding of our vision.  After meeting with our consultants and going through an initial run through of our presentation we realized we still had a lot of work to do.  We went back to the drawing board and created a variety of graphs and charts to emphasize the most important figures in our financial documents.  We also heeded our consultants advice on the importance of buzzwords.  We chose 3 or 4 of the adjectives we most wanted associated with the Foam Home and implemented them into as many of our slides as we could.  We settle on "student-centric," "collaboration," and "comfortable" as our main descriptions, but also worked on making sure that the parts of our vision that made it unique were also repeated and made clear.  The computer lab and conference rooms are an integral part of what sets the Foam Home apart, so we wanted to make sure those two features were well documented.  While our $200 project winds down to a close, we are wringing out the calendars for all they are worth.  Since every dollar we make is profit, we are selling them for really anything we can get our hands for.  I sold a few for $5 (we ordered them at around $4.50 a piece so the return isn't that bad).  It was probably a mistake to reach out for the extra funding at the beginning of the project as we are now left with a large number of boxes with products that will be worthless pretty soon.