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<\/a>The topic chosen by the students was \u201cEmpowering Millennials for the Future,\u201d in response to the ‘Do’ category questions: What can we do to utilize the power of change for good? What can we do to empower others in the future?<\/p>\n
The students’ presentation included an introduction to the millennial generation and offered suggestions for how businesses and the field of academics can empower millennials by drawing on the generation\u2019s strengths and characteristics.<\/p>\n
The students express appreciation for the opportunity, which provided \u201ca platform to talk about something interesting that we wanted to share, meet new people and network, and practice skills that we learned in class,\u201d said Longley.<\/p>\n
\u201cAttending the MEDA convention provided an opportunity for the students to draw on the leadership studies that we\u2019ve incorporated into the business program,\u201d says Craig Martin, Assistant Professor of Business at CMU. \u201cThey did really well on their presentation.\u201d<\/p>\n
All three are taking the course Leadership Development, taught by Dr. Vonda Plett, which they credit with helping them develop skills such as active listening, team building, and presentation techniques, all of which they utilized while preparing their presentation.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I began [the Leadership Development] course, I had leadership goals. Taking up public speaking was one of my goals and this was an opportunity to practice that,\u201d says Sibanda.<\/p>\n
The convention included opportunities for networking with MEDA supporters, staff, and convention attendees, including those from other universities and colleges.<\/p>\n
This is the fourth year CMU has attended the MEDA convention and the students hope that more students will be able to participate in the future. They\u2019ve already begun planning for next year.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re there to connect, to meet people, to learn about new things, and to come back next year and hear what you\u2019ve done since,\u201d says Beever. \u201cIt took our degree and shaped it in a whole new light.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jillian Beever, Tess Longley, and Nonsie Sibanda won the MEDAnext Talks competition at MEDA\u2019s 2015 convention, \u201cGrowing Business, Building Community\u201d. Styled after TED Talks, the MEDAnext Talks provided an opportunity for students to present on a topic that fell into one of the following categories of how to be, do, or care\u00a0“in the next.” The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[719,416,718,570,182,414,720],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5557"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5564,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5557\/revisions\/5564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}