Posted on Jan 2, 2024
Building This Rose Parade Float Taught College Students What Classes Didn’t
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How do you measure the rewards for the makers and sponsors of most of the several dozen floats set to roll down Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena on Jan. 1?
For some it’s a paycheck, public relations points, and civic pride as millions of people watch the broadcast. But for the makers of one, and only one float, the rewards are largely about learning by doing through collaboration.
“We are a student leadership development program that happens to have a float building problem,” said Quinn Akemon, a fifth year at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and president of their campus’ float building program.
This will be the 75th year that students from the San Luis Obispo and the Cal Poly Pomona campuses team up to design and build a Rose Parade Float. Guided by one campus advisor, the students decide what the float will look like, how it will move, and what flowers and plants it will be decorated with.
For some it’s a paycheck, public relations points, and civic pride as millions of people watch the broadcast. But for the makers of one, and only one float, the rewards are largely about learning by doing through collaboration.
“We are a student leadership development program that happens to have a float building problem,” said Quinn Akemon, a fifth year at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and president of their campus’ float building program.
This will be the 75th year that students from the San Luis Obispo and the Cal Poly Pomona campuses team up to design and build a Rose Parade Float. Guided by one campus advisor, the students decide what the float will look like, how it will move, and what flowers and plants it will be decorated with.
Building This Rose Parade Float Taught College Students What Classes Didn’t
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good day Brother William, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!
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..."“We are a student leadership development program that happens to have a float building problem,” said Quinn Akemon, a fifth year at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and president of their campus’ float building program.
This will be the 75th year that students from the San Luis Obispo and the Cal Poly Pomona campuses team up to design and build a Rose Parade Float. Guided by one campus advisor, the students decide what the float will look like, how it will move, and what flowers and plants it will be decorated with."...
..."“We are a student leadership development program that happens to have a float building problem,” said Quinn Akemon, a fifth year at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and president of their campus’ float building program.
This will be the 75th year that students from the San Luis Obispo and the Cal Poly Pomona campuses team up to design and build a Rose Parade Float. Guided by one campus advisor, the students decide what the float will look like, how it will move, and what flowers and plants it will be decorated with."...
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