Senior Project Reflection

Title: Senior Project Reflection

(1) Positive Statement

What are you most proud of in your 2-Hour Presentation and/or your senior project? I think i did really good in presenting and learned how to screen print.

(2) Questions to Consider

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

P+ I meet all the requirements and i think i did pretty good.

b.     What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project (self-assessment)? Why?

p- i have a lot of things that i didn't do good in or took a while for me to do but i actually put a lot of my effort on my topic just didn't apply all of that to school. 

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

I think everything went pretty well 

(4) What didn’t work for you in your senior project?

I turned a lot of things late and it was hard to focus on core work and senior project stuff at the same time

(5) Finding Value

How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors?   I can work under pressure a lot better i think it helped me be ready for collage and i can say im ready for all the stressful stuff thats going to happen in my college experience.  

2 hour lesson plan

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mD7GxTpgdYO4icQlN594dLXLtXrogIXHzybIMd0EFLk/edit

Service Learning

     What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why? The most important thing i learned was how to silk screen and how to improve my designs. This is what helped me mot with answering my EQ and also helped me most for when i wanted to start a silk screening business.

     How did what you did help you answer your EQ?  Please explain. I witnessed how much cheaper it is when you print your own clothes witch brought me to my best answer of designing and printing your own clothes in order to be a successful entrepreneur in the clothing industry. 

Independent Component 2

Literal

I, jesus diaz affirm that i completed my independent component whitch represents 30 hours of work. I did thirty hours more of service learning imporoving my silk screening and design skills. 

Interpretive

I went there thirty more hours then i had too, in these thirty more  hours i tried to focus more on how he runs things and how the money gets handled. I earned alot also brought me to one of my best answers on silk screening and designing your own clothes Alfread Castanedas keeped encouraging me to get my own silk screening machine and he let me know how it would help me be more secuessfull in the clothing industry.

Applied

Helped me find one of my best answers was having a conversation with alfread and he told me about getting my own machine and all the benifits that i would have making me a more sucessfull eunterpenuer. Also gave me everything i needed to know to start up my own silk screening bussniess that i will be starting in about 3 weeks.

Answer 3

• EQ = What is most important to being a successful entrepreneur in the clothing industry?
• Answer 3 = If you Design and screen printing your own clothing you will make more profit and be a sucessfull entuerpenur 
• Evidence = How to Start A clothing line (website), Closet collection is currentlly doing this and they are sucessull enturpenuers.

• Source =  Alfred Casanedas, Odie, Closet Collection

Room creativitiy

1) i plan on making the room look like a trade show and present how clothing lines would present themselves at a clothing line trade show i always want to bring in a silk screening machine.

2) have them draw out a design and i show them how i trace it on the computer.

Research Check 14

Basic Screen Printing Techniques 101:

l: Just because they have the title “screen printer” doesn’t mean they are one!

I: this is true ive known some people that say they know how and when i order some shirts they cant do it.

L: I choose the 160 to 180 because I want to lay down a little less ink since this is a multi-color job AND in doing so I will not have to flash cure between colors

I: i need to learn the mesh differences i always heard about them but never knew what they meant

L:  would also have used a dual-cure photopolymer emulsion as my stencil since they can be used with only a single coat on each side and they hold up well, yet reclaim easily.

I: didnt know there was different types of emulsion 

L: When printing multi-color prints on light shirts you generally print the lightest color to darkest color OR the smallest print area to the largest area.

I: did not know this didn't think it mattered 

L:  The easiest way to line-up screens on a multi-color print is to make a print of the outline or main color and just line-up the other screens to the print. Sure you may get a little ink on the bottom of the screen but guess what? It will wipe right off.

I: dont really know what he means by this 

Costs of starting a clothing company:

L: How much do I need to start my clothing brand?

I: theres three types of budgets amateur, indie, and professional. 

L:   

Research Check

Sole Proprietorship: The Right Business Structure?

sole proprietorships have many advantages 

Quicker Tax Preparation- filing taxes for a sole proprietorships is way easier then a corporation all you have to do is get  1040 form from the IRS and fill that out putting the profit made and lost.

Lower Start-up Costs- its way easier to start up a sole proprietorships then a corporation. Its less money and you need special forms. 

Ease of Money Handling- Handling your money is way easier and when you pay your self you dont need to do it through payroll it would be even easier to have separate bank accounts.

Personally Liable- All your personal wealth and assets are linked to the business. If you operate in a higher risk business such as manufacturing or consumables, the cost to benefit ratio is favorable toward a corporate structure.

Lonely at The Top: have to be able to work good on your own but there will be more money for you

How to Start a Sole Proprietorship:

Be prepared to devote time, use business methods, and get set up properly so you can make more money, minimize taxes, and avoid potential problems

Become a business

steps to do it:

Pick a domain name

Register your name

Trademark your name

Answer 2

• EQ =  What is most important to being a successful entrepreneur in the clothing industry?
• Answer 2 = In order to be a successful entrepreneur in the clothing industry you nee to know how to advertise and promote 
• Evidence = Interviews, articles, and a personal experiences 
• Source = articles and research i did/ personal experiences
• Your goal:  to prove that advertising and promoting is very important 

blog 18

My product is my designs increased a lot since the beginning of the year. When i first started this project i was not confident with my designs and still knew i had a lot to work on but now i feel confident enough to even run my own design/silk screening business. A lot of the learning came from my service learning Alfread just watching wat he did and how he did stuff made me a better designer.


Evidence: i have some designs posted on the blog that i did that came out pretty good will be posting designs when i first started later.

20 questions

1)What is most important to being a successful entrepreneur in the clothing industry?
2) Some ways you promoted your clothing brand?
3) Something your most proud of that you accomplished?
4) What three pieces of advice would you offer entrepreneurs starting out today? 

5)What has been your most effective marketing tactic or technique?

6) Did you start off with a business plan?

7) Do you have people working with you or is it just you?

8) What is an average workday like for you?

9) What are the most crucial things you have done to grow your business?

10)What plans do you have now to expand your business further?

11)Why did you start this?

12)What is your biggest fear in business?

13) What’s the worst business advice you’ve ever received?

14)Looking back, what’s one thing you wish you understood about entrepreneurship before you ever got started?

15) What made you want to do this?

16) In the beginning, what motivated you to become an entrepreneur?

17)What’s your most memorable experience ?

18)What do you enjoy most about what you do?
19)What’s your least favorite part about being an entrepreneur?

20)What’s the biggest thing you struggle with?

Independent Component 2 Plan Approval

1) Im going to be doing extra service learning hours.

Independent component 1

Literal

I, Jesus Diaz, affirm that i completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work. 

I worked at a skate shop for 30 hours, it helped me understand how a skate shop worked, how they decide if they let a clothing line in or not, and what they do with all the other clothes. 

Interpretive

I had the guy i worked with sign off a justification form to prove that i worked there. I worked two ours a day working and learning about managing a skate shop

Applied

This helped a lot answering my EQ, now i know what skate shops/ stores look in to letting a new clothing line in. I also learned a lot about how it works and how much you pay to get into a store but you get a lot out of it. Also most successful clothing lines have there own store named after the brand and to know the fundamentals of how to run your own store just puts me a step ahead of everyone else thats starting there own clothing brand and a step ahead to making a successful brand.

Calendar to hours:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuDHf-MlBhY_dFBzTDZTWXJGUXg5dFBxU21PcG9lamc#gid=10

Blog 14: Presentation 2 Rough Draft

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nBagSY0lbKvioYdyTaKXaNuC_lglkZSipA2HlIqWfMk/edit?hl=en_US

Service learning/ screen printing shirts

screen printed shirts for the first time and they came out good!

Blog 13 : Answer one

1) Good designs that target a certain group.

2) Research from other big brands, also ive noticed that if a clothing line is more bigger and is making more sales it usually has really cool designs.

3) Things ive seen and talking to my service learning guy, also closet collection. I also did reseach of the history of other big brands.

Odie form garfield design

Had to make this today in serivice learning for one of the workers.

logo for rated athletics

Service learning day 2

some work i had to do in service learning was pretty impressed with the finishing product. Did this from scratch.

Service learning

1) I am doing my service learning at Rated Althletics with Alfread. He Is the owner and designer. They do sublimation and silk screen printing. Also they design jerseys for softball teams.

2)Alfred 
 909-762-1248
rated athletics

3) i have done one hour on january friday the 13th.

Third interview Questions

Interview 3:
to you, What is most important to being a successful entrepreneur in the clothing industry?


What do you think is a good way to promote a clothing line?


What do you think makes A good clothing line?


Are you into fashion?


Do you think its better to target one audience or more then one?


How did you start off?


Whats something you have done that help you a lot with your clothing line?


How long did it take you to get were you are now?


What do you plan to do to improve your clothing brand?


If you could change one thing in your whole process in creating this clothing line, what would have you done?