STUDENT REPRESENTATION

After two years as the Class Representative the work I developed marked my greatest achievement in the university: the construction of an identity as a group that created within the faculty a trend and left a legacy that will guide future generations. Periodismo 14, as I said at the graduation speech, was both an identity and a style. Through a series of actions Periodismo 14 set a new way to do things, a new method.

From the first moment I wanted tho have in the classroom an environment that would allow the students feel full comfort for the learning process. To create a scenario within the class wasn’t easy and it was achieved after a lot of work and effort. The 3 main actions that I took out were (1) The Madrid trip, (2) The Journalism day and (3) The creation of the yearbook.

1. On the trip to Madrid, 40 students and 2 teachers went to Madrid to visit media and corporate communication areas of leading companies in their sectors.
2. In the Journalism Day we presented the final year projects, we BBQed and finally chatted with Jordi Pérez Colomé (Obama World blogs author).
3. The Yearbook was the most tangible result of this identity (Periodismo 14). Such was the success of this Yearbook that some teachers recognized that they used this material to get job opportunities for students in class.

Finally, let me show you my speech on the Graduation Day. It was a hard task, but I think we did it well. I pronounced it on Spanish, so I think you might know how to speak my language.