After 3 weeks of delay, we were finally able to hold the Spentrep class. Many students came early; I came early too so did Perry. We started the class early; I played "Sayo Lamang from You Tube"
I then asked the class to reflect on the song and they said it is about AMDG, it is about religion, <it is about vocation - whether business or religion> In entrepreneurship, you have to give all. Nothing succeeds without passion. And we recall what Steve Jobs said about being in business "Love what you do and do what you love"
I found out that Mr. Ed Vargas, one of the students I emailed last week from Meralco, used to be the Branch Boss at Meralco at Angono, where I come from
Then we walked through the syllabus (the blogpost - they do no have hard copies, well that saves a lot of paper) We talked about assignments and the blog submission. And then practiced/warmed up on new ideas/brain storming on id's and other plain items that we see daily. More detailed product concept will be done next week.
Our last activities for the night was formation of the groups, assignment of class sec (John Galicia - he volunteered; thanks John) and the debate: "Are entrepreneurs born (nature) made (nurture) or lucky?" The debate was tightly structured and they could not talk much. Group 4 was the moderating group and they voted the nurture group (entrepreneurs are made) to be the winner. But it was tightly fought debate and the difference between groups was only a point each. There were debate summaries as well as running score (on line) It was a well managed debate.
I requested Ana who graduated from AdemU as Magna Cum Laude, who MCd the debate to make her comments and and say the closing prayer. She also teaches at AdeMU. (Ateneo de Manila Loyola)
We went over time and we went home late (by 9:20) I was home by 11:30
