Individual Project

Individual Project (GC&E Component) (Report & Presentation)

Individual Assignment – 44 Marks = 15%

Summary:

A key outcome of this course is that students gain knowledge of various entrepreneurial skills and innovative approaches necessary for addressing social issues that have not been adequately addressed by the public or private sectors. With this in mind, students are challenged to individually complete a presentation and report about a successful social entrepreneur.

Submission Instructions:

Use Turitin to self-determine the originality of your work. Late: A 10%-mark deduction, per day, will be applied to all assignments submitted after the due date. Submit through the appropriate dropbox. Assignments will not be accepted via email or memory sticks and 10 days after the due date.

Rubric: (Note: if the majority of your report is found to be plagiarized or after the due date, you will receive a grade of

ZERO for this assignment)

Instructions

Identify a successful social entrepreneur.

Selected entrepreneur: Willie Smits

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Smits

Presentation

Your presentation should include:

a) Background about the entrepreneur

· Who your entrepreneur is, and their accomplishment?

· Their personal background, how s/he became successful today, and the struggles they have faced in their career

· The most important social entrepreneurial characteristics they have demonstrated

b) Impact of the entrepreneur

· What products/services they are best known for creating

· How they have made a difference to the industry, the society, people’s lives, etc.

· Picture(s) of your entrepreneur and his/her brand, products or services

GC&E Report

Your GC&E report should identify how your entrepreneur supports the concepts of Global Citizenship & Equity and explain how learning about them allowed you to meet at least one of the GC&E outcomes promoted by Centennial College.

The six outcomes identified by the college are:

1. Identify one’s roles and responsibilities as a global citizen in personal and professional life.

2. Identify beliefs, values and behaviors that form individual and community identities and the basis for respectful relationships.

3. Support personal and social responsibility initiatives at the local, national, or global level.

4. Analyze issues of equity at the personal professional and global level.

5. Analyze the use of the world’s resources to achieve sustainability and equitable distribution at the personal, professional, and global levels.

6. Identify and challenge unjust practices in local and global systems.

Required:

Presentation (10%):

· 4-5 minutes

· (no videos)

· Reference research throughout presentation (in-text citation on slides and reference slide at the end).

Report (5%):

· 2 pages (excluding cover page, references and appendices)

· APA Formatting (for citations and referencing as well as overall organization)

· Correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, flow of thought, clarity of ideas and creativity

· Minimum of 4 references (with intext citations)

References:

Anytime you refer to ideas that are not your own, you MUST refer to the source both in text and in the reference page at the end of your essay. Use APA referencing style when you write up your paper. Ensure that your paper contains a page for references. Refer to http://www.apastyle.org/index.aspx or http://www.library.cornell.edu/resrch/citmanage/apa for more information about proper citation.

Grading Rubric:

Grading Rubric (Presentation)

Criteria	Excellent (4)	Good (3)	Fair (2)	Poor (1)	Total Marks
Powerpoint Slides	Powerpoint is of professional quality and aesthetically pleasing.	Powerpoint is of mostly professional quality.	Powerpoint could be more professional. Some aesthetic problems.	Powerpoint is of amateur quality.
Style/Flow	Body of presentation is organized, is interesting and easily followed. Audience was engaged and interested.	Body of presentation is organized, is interesting and easily followed. Room for improvement.	Body of presentation is somewhat organized. Needs additional practice and effort.	Body of presentation is disorganized
Content	Met requirements, personal knowledge of content well demonstrated.	Met requirements, personal knowledge of content demonstrated.	Somewhat met requirements, personal knowledge of content well demonstrated.	Failed to meet requirements. No .knowledge of content demonstrated
Professionalism	Professionally dressed and maintains professional composure.	Professionally dressed and maintains mostly professional composure while speaking.	Not professionally dressed. Maintains a somewhat professional composure while speaking.	Not professionally dressed, fails to maintain professional composure while speaking.
Research	Proper use of APA sources. Sources are used evenly and appropriately throughout the speech. Sources enhance presentation	Sources are used evenly and appropriately throughout the speech; APA sources are cited/mentioned	Sources are somewhat incorporated into the speech; sources are incorrectly cited/mentioned	Sources are not incorporated into the presentation
Timing	4-5 minutes and well prepared for QA session afterwards	Less than or over specific time by one minute; but well prepared for QA session	Less than or over specific time by two minutes; somewhat prepared for QA session	Less than or over specific time by three minutes; and not prepared for QA session
Total mark					/024

Grading Rubric (GC&E Report)

Criteria	Excellent	Good	Fair	Poor	Total Marks
GC&E Content	A clear understanding of GC&E is evident.	A mostly clear understanding of GC&E evident.	An understanding of GC&E minimally evident.	No understanding of GC&E evident.
Analysis	Demonstrates exceptional ability to engage in critical thinking and writing.	Demonstrates some higher levels of thinking and writing.	Minimally demonstrates some amount of critical thinking and writing.	Fails to engage in scholarly thinking and writing.
Organization/ structure	Logical sequence of ideas. Transitions are effective.	Transitions are mostly appropriate. Sequence of ideas could be improved.	Some signs of logical organization. May have abrupt or illogical shifts and ineffective flow of ideas.	Unclear organization and/or the structure don’t justify research objectives. No transitions.
APA style/ format	Documents sources using APA format precisely throughout	Documents sources using APA format with a 1 or 2 minor errors	Documents sources using APA format with 3 or 4 errors	Does not use APA format adequately
Professionalism	There are no grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors.	There are 1 or 2 minor grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors that do not interfere with meaning.	There are 3 or 4 minor errors in punctuation, grammar and/or spelling which do not break the flow for the reader.	There are major errors in punctuation, grammar and/or spelling which interrupt the flow for the reader.
Total Marks					/20