The Experiences of Temple Advertising Students
For the Past few months I, along with a group of Temple Students, have been teaching an advertising workshop in Kensington KAPA High School. The objective for this workshop was to create an ad campaign for Philabundance, a non-profit organization…
Since the beginning of the semester I have been taking a class where a group of Temple students went into two different high schools in Philly and taught an advertising workshop. To be honest, I took the class as a…
So as of Friday my time with GEP has come to an end. I find that I’m oh so impressed by how much I have learned and how much experience they gave me. When I talk to my friends about…
Over the past three months I was lucky enough to hold a position interning at The National Museum of American Jewish History (Known as NMAJH to the workers there). Over my time there I learned that although I am a…
Rewind back to the month of May, when I was applying for internships. At that time, I pictured myself dashing around Philadelphia in a blazer and heels, running errands for my boss–four coffees in a Starbucks caddy along for the…
September 25, 2012… Our Ad Club Assembly Today was the day… the first day I would introduce myself, the first day I would interact with the students, and most importantly, the first day the students would hopefully open their eyes…
It’s about to be three weeks from the day of the competition and the creation of the viral/commercial/YouTube video is nowhere to be completed. But unlike us the students at Kensington High School are smiling and enjoying the time with…
I knew from the moment I walked in the Kensington Capa door that this was going to be an amazing experience. Lesson planning wasn’t always easy with such a big group of teachers, but I think we found some great…
First and foremost, this community based learning course was successful in reaching every goal we set out to accomplish. I don’t believe there were any specific set goals, but personally I had three: Create an impressive advertising campaign to…
Coming into this community based learning course, I expected to learn a thing or two about the advertising business, but I never realized I would clearly understand the essential elements needed to create an full-scale advertising campaign. I am honestly…
On Monday December 10th, 2012 we had the pleasure of presenting two and half months of hard work to a room full of important people. When I say we I mean both Temple University students and Kensington CAPA high school…
We’ve been working for almost an entire semester to prepare for this presentation. We’ve been working closely with Kensington CAPA students for about a month on the commercial, music track, and print ads and I’m still nervous. The commercial/youtube clip/viral…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k4LzJgIIsU&feature=youtu.be The last week before the competition, Temple students and the students of Kensington decided to meet two times. The last day we got to chill with the students and finish up everything. Before we left the school I had…
Our final class was hard for me. It made me realize how much I was going to miss the kids and working on our campaign. We did a lot of work this semester, getting them and the campaign ready, but…
Monday, December 10th, marked the end of the Philly Ad club HS workshop. The turn out for the final presentation was greater than expected. The students from both high schools came together to present their final campaigns to Philabundance and…
My name is Michael Clementi and I am a Special Programs intern at the National Museum of American Jewish History on Fifth and Market Streets in Center City. Before it was moved to its current location in November of 2010, the…
Hello again! For those of you who don’t know me, or haven’t read my previous blog post, my name is Andrea Cicio. I’m currently interning at Braithwaite Communications, a marketing, branding, and public relations firm in Center City. When I…
What is sweet, delicious and goes great with a pint of beer? Chocolate! In fact, chocolate is a particularly great flavor enhancer when paired with certain styles of beer, especially stouts. How do I know this? I intern at a…
I had the privilege of interning for a chemical distributor during this past semester. I learned a lot of information during my time there. The company has been around for over 140 years. Making the company one of the oldest…
As my internship is coming to an end, I still have nothing but good things to say about my experience at Red Tettemer. These experiences have definitely been unforgettable. Red Tettemer is an awesome agency and the people who work…
This semester I have been interning at Philadelphia Style Magazine. In the past, interning for them gave me wonderful experience in what it takes to get the magazine off the ground, from the advertising and publishing perspective. This semester, my…
So sad I’m getting close to my end dates. Definitely looking forward to new opportunities though. In the process so far, I’ve learned how the radio station operates, how they make money, and how they maintain their brand. It feels…
Yesterday marked the last day of our semester long advertising workshop at the Academy at Palumbo in South Philadelphia. We ended up with a great group of students who were eager to learn about all aspects of advertising, from research…
This is the second post here. My time at Karma is winding down, when I get called into the creative director’s office for an internship review meeting. She explains how much everyone likes to work with me, and how…
As the semester is coming to an end luckily my internship is not. I was fortunate enough to be asked to stay another semester as an intern with the Philadelphia Flyers. Overall, this semester has been a wonderful learning experience.…
I am really into my internship at “Philadelphia’s Premier Party Radio Station” WIRED 96.5. I work for Casey during the midday programming. Working at the station so far has definitely been a great opportunity. Editing songs for :10 second samples, re-editing…
I still don’t know how I managed to score this internship at Karma agency in center city. It boggles my mind. And here, in the twilight hours of my twenty first year on the planet, I cannot help but reflect…
Yesterday was the second to last class in the schools. There was actually a great turn out which was unexpected but amazing. We started off taking group pictures for the presentation which was a lot of fun. After that we…
This semester I have been fortunate enough to intern at AL DIA News Media. AL DIA is a Latino newspaper that provides Latino News, Issues, & Opinion in the greater Philadelphia area. AL DIA has created such a great niche…
Before starting my internship at Fame House LLC, I had always thought I was extremely knowledgeable in the field of Social Media Marketing. Now after the past three months, I could not have been any more wrong about that assumption.…
Hey guys! So it’s November 15, 2012 and there is not much time left at my internship, which truly makes me a little sad. Working at evoke interaction, a pharmaceutical advertising agency, I…
When I first started this new internship at Propulsion Media Labs in August, I wasn’t entirely sure what exactly it was that they did. Propulsion Media Labs, formally known as Paul Turner Productions is a full service production house, specializing…
Temple University has partnered up with Philly Ad Club to travel to local public high schools to start an after school advertising club. We are teaching these students the basic advertising concepts and skills so that at the end of…
In my opinion, my internship experience as a whole was kick started by one of the best agencies I could have been a part of in Philadelphia. Lev Lane’s company culture is distinct from all other agencies I have visited…
This program is the first in my college career to showcase the full potential community learning courses have in engaging students off all ages and backgrounds. Rather than teaching through traditional lectures or power points to take notes from, this…
Throughout the semester my team and I have been working hard to create lesson plans for the advertising workshop, make incentives for students to join and project just how successful and fun the world of media and communications can be.…
Ever since I was a freshman in high school I have been working in an advertising agency assisting the account manager as a summer job. Although I enjoyed my job, I never thought that once I finally made my way…
After interning for Kembrel for over a year, I have learned many things about fashion, retail, social media, merchandising and branding. Kembrel’s latest venture was opening a Men’s Shop in the midtown village. With such a small space and an…
The picture above is a shirt that North Bowl had printed for one of the First Friday events. The art exhibit for this friday was titled Neo Cocktail Cool, and featured an artist by the name of Mike Bell, whose…
On Monday we had our final day in the classroom. It didn’t really hit me at first. We got there and there were only a few students which wasn’t a surprise. The students who were there were the ones who…
