Henry Blakelock Capstone

For my capstone, I was a part of the RocketFest team. RocketFest is a legacy capstone that was passed down to me, Dylan Paul, and Desmond Maggione. Doing a group capstone, the first thing we had to do was figure out what our roles were. Desmond ended up in charge of marketing. Dylan was in charge of communications. And I was in charge of budgeting. Being in charge of budgeting meant I had to figure out the main ways to get funding and how we should spend the money we got. Originally, we were going to use the majority of the funding on a venue, but since we only got partial funding from Braskem, we had to quickly pivot. We ended up not spending money on the venue and hosting it in our school’s auditorium. Since we still had money to spend, it was broken down into multiple parts. We spent some of the money on trophies with the SLA logo on them for the winners of our festival. We also spent money on printing programs for the show. The last thing we spent our money on was printing our photo and graphic design submissions to display during the festival. I learned so much from this process, and I am so incredibly proud of all the hard work that was put into making RocketFest what it is. I am excited to see what next year’s RocketFest turns out to be and am hoping for it to be even more successful!