Professionalism, Research and Pilot Presentations

At the end of January, the CUSP class continued their professional development with a workshop from the Laurier Community and Partnerships Office. The students learned about professional communication and presentations and had a fun experiential learning activity where they practiced conversations with potential community members. They left the workshop with new tools to use for their projects as well as in their future after Laurier. 

Since then, the class has been working hard at completing their deliverables for the City of Cambridge. They have been attending community meetings, visiting neighbourhood organizations and Business Improvement Areas, visiting the Cambridge archives and completing their property data assessment forms for the commercial and industrial buildings they have chosen to assess.

As a new addition to the course this semester, CUSP collaborated with Ada Sharpe’s class (ENG206 Writing for Business) class for a mutual learning opportunity. The CUSP groups sent drafts of their outreach materials to the English class and they provided copy editing of the documents and gave helpful feedback to the groups. Both sets of students learned a lot during this exercise.

On March 7, the class went back to the Cambridge City Hall to give pilot presentations to the City representatives, April Souwand and Laura Waldie. The students showed that they have been working hard and provided a snapshot of what we will see for their final community presentations. They received excellent feedback from the City that they will be able to use to refine their final deliverables and final community presentation on March 28.