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>> My name's Michelle Moore.

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I am the Associate Director of the Penn
State Alumni Association Alumni Events Team,

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and I plan events for a living.

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I guess primarily, there's a talent
there for a lot of multitasking.

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You have to be someone who is pretty organized,
but you can't get too far down into the weeds.

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What goes into event planning is first of all,

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you're trying to determine what the
objective is of the event that you're doing.

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In the case of what I do now specifically,

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our whole goal is to engage
alumina back to Penn State.

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So everything that we do is either
planning events here at Penn State

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or throughout the country to help
alumni connect back to Penn State.

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This job requires creativity, but you also
have to have good finance background, as well,

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because you are dealing with
a lot of budget management,

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a lot of negotiation and contracting skill.

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So where there is that misconception out
there it's one big party planning fun event,

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there's a lot of behind-the-scenes
work too that is involved.

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Currently, right now, here, at
the Penn State Alumni Association,

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the events that we do, there's
two different types.

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The ones that are based here, either
in the Hintz Family Alumni Center

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or actually someplace on campus here.

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We awards ceremonies, dinners.

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We do away-game pep rallies when we
go to the away-game football games.

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We take the President on the road.

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A lot of those times involved
either receptions or dinners.

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A lot of people hear about the Coach's
Caravan where we partner with the Lion Club,

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and we travel with the coaches
across the state into the nation

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to bring the coaches to our [inaudible] nation.