MidKent College’s Maidstone Campus may not have much in the way of sea or sand, but that didn’t stop travel students having fun in the sun earlier this month.
A beach-themed bash was organised by national diploma travel and tourism students to mark the close of their first year at college. The charity party - which featured a barbecue, swing ball, Wii games and a tug of war – was also attended by students from the college’s air cabin crew diploma.
“Today’s party forms part of a course unit on events, conferences and exhibitions” explained MidKent College student Amie Roberts. “We had to organise the whole get-together from scratch. First of all we had to decide on a charity and a theme, and then we had to budget for food and activities.”
Tickets were sold at £5 each to enable costs to be covered and to help the students raise an equal amount for Cancer Research UK at the same time.
“It’s been fun as well as a great learning experience for us,” continued 17 year old Amy, who lives Kings Hill and led her class in organising the beach-themed blow-out. “I want to work in events management in the future. This experience has shown me just how rewarding and stressful events management can be,” she said. “All I can say is: it’s a good job I like a challenge.”
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