Final Week of Internship

On August 1st our Rep was in town for the next couple days and got us tickets to Wrigley Field to see the Cubs. The following day we attended an MLS game between Chivas USA and Chicago Fire. Here we set up 4 hours before the game and gave out catalogs, raffled off prizes as well as promoted some new promotions going on in the company. Once the game started we were able to break down and go up into the suite and watch the game with some of our bosses. The following day on the 3rd we went to Soldier Filed where the Chicago Bears play and set up for a game between Mexican team Chivas Guadalajara and one of the top clubs in the world from Spain, FC Barcelona. We set up our tent 6 hours before the game for an event with 40,000 fans in attendance. We promoted the same stuff as the day before except handed out over 2,000 catalogs and 1,500 promotions broschure's. Once the game started we broke down everything and put it in the van but didn't get into the game until almost half time. The following day we then drove back to the Detroit area where we went to another Michigan Rush camp and repeated the same ting as the following week. After the camp on the 5th we then drove from Detroit to East Rutherford, New Jersey for another FC Barcelona game at Giants Stadium against the New York Redbulls. Here we repeated the same process as in Chicago at Soldier Field and gave out another 2,000 catalogs and promotions broschure's. After 6 hours of being set up we broke down and were able to see the whole game from three rows back from the field. This would be our final event of the summer. On the 7th we drove back to Hillsborough, NC. On the 8th we unloaded our van, wrote up all of our event reports, did our expense report, went to lunch with the interns, and we were done.

Week 4 in MidWest

On the 25th we drove 12 hours from Lincoln Nebraska to Detroit, Michigan where we would stay the next two nights. We were scheduled to attend a tournament hosted by the University of Detroit-Mercy but could never get in contact with our contact for the event and we even went to the school to find out if anything was going on but found nothing. So we spent our time there checking out the decent areas of Detroit. This included driving across the river to Canada for lunch. After Canada we drove south to Indianapolis. We spent one night in Indianapolis to attend the Butler University camp on the 28th. We basically did the same thing that we had done at every other camp. Just played some games and aloud them to shoot at the sign. It was a successful event because it had good numbers and also one of the campers won a $200 gift card from shooting at the sign. After the camp we drove two hours east to Cincinnati. On the 29th we went to the University of Cincinnati camp where we did the same thing as the day before at Butler, but no one was fortunate to make it through the sign. Following camp we then drove back up to Detroit for the Michigan Rush camp. At the camp on the 30th we had to change some things up. Since the camp had about 200 kids we didn't have time to play a game with each individual team so we just let everyone shoot at our sign as there coaches sent them over. This camp in fact was our best camp of the summer because all of the kids were excited and energetic and we had 3 kids win $200 gift cards from making it through the sign. Immediately following the camp at 12 noon, we drove straight to Chicago for a Professional game between English team Everton FC and MLS team Chicago Fire. Hear we set up our tent 3 hours before the game and just gave out catalogs and posters and other promotional information. We didn't raffle anyhting off because we had ran out of raffle pads, plus the attendance was low for the game. Once the game started we broke down and went into watch the game. We would spend the next 5 nights in Chicago.

Week 3 in MidWest

We arrived in Topeka, Kansas on the 16th. The following day we attended the Prodigy Soccer Camp, which was a camp that a local club was putting on. We arrived around 10 a.m. and noticed that it was one of our smaller camps of about 20 to 30 kids. Basically we separated the camp into three different age groups and played individual games with them and gave out prizes. Then we let each camper shoot on a Eurosport sign which we had a hole cut out in it. If they could make it through the hole in one shoot they would win a $200 gift card. Unfortunately no one made it but everyone received catalogs and posters. The following day we did the same thing but with a different group of kids. Also the club director told a local TV news station that we where there so they sent out a reporter to interview us. I answered a few questions about our company and our relationship with Prodigy Soccer Club and that was that. After camp on the 18th we had to travel 5 hours north to Lincoln, Nebraska for the next week. On the 19th we went to the Torro Soccer Club tournament, which was an all girl club based out of Omaha that was hosting their tournament in Lincoln. The tournament was a big disappointment because it was only about 3 or 4 age groups and there weren't many games going on at once. This made it hard for us to get much traffic to the tent. Since we only received about 30 raffles we talked with our region rep and decided to not return the next day of the tournament. So from the 20th to the 24th we had off with no events scheduled in Nebraska. On the 24th we attended the Rush Festival for the Rush Soccer Club. Rush is a soccer club that has different satellites of clubs in states throughout the whole country including Hawaii. It's Eurosports largest team account with over 6,000 players. Basically the Rush Festival brought all of the clubs u-12 boys and girls teams to Lincoln for a camp/tournament experience. We set up our tent and gave players the chance o win some prizes as well as shoot on our sign to win a $200 gift card. it was a whole day event for us which was nice since we were in Nebraska for a whole week with only 2 events. The following day we would make a 12 hour drive to Detroit.