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On the weekend of March 15-18, I was given the

opportunity to represent our chapter of PRSSA and aend

Naonal Assembly in Charloe, North Carolina N.C. Naonal

Assembly is an annual event in which one delegate from

each chapter is able to help elect the new Naonal Council

and aend events. These events were aimed at teachingabout member benets of PRSSA, leadership training, and

professional development.

I was immediately greeted by the beauful weather

upon arrival to Charloe. My hotel was right in the heart

of the great metropolitan city where there were countless

things to see and do. Naonal Assembly started early for

me because I chose to parcipate in the Day of Compeon

event where aendants were split into groups of six and our

main task was to create a communicaons plan for a real life

situaon. Sounds easy right? We were only given an hour to

come up with a basic plan for Duke Energy and then present

it to a panel of employees from Duke and PRSSA advisors.Well to my surprise, my group won! Duke was impressed with

our event ideas and our simplisc yet eecve plan of acon.

I received an award and $50 dollars.

The following day was full of sessions on how to

beer our chapter and to become more eecve leaders.

The last session of the day was a panel of professionals who

represented dierent areas of public relaons including

agency, corporate, and digital. The panel used most of the

me for aendants to ask quesons about their day-to-day

responsibilies and dierent skill sets required to work in

each area.

Saturday was the day of Naonal Assembly. Tho

this meeng lasted a total of 13 hours, it was worth it to

able to have a part in choosing the new Naonal Council

I have a great deal of condence that each of the new

leaders chosen will connue to make PRSSA an outstandorganizaon.

Sunday closed out the Assembly with our keynot

speaker Mary Tribble, Chief of Events for the Democrac

Naonal Convenon Host Commiee. Marys Her speech

far from the status quo of the other presentaons Ive se

from professionals in the public relaons eld. She stress

the importance of preparing for the unexpected and hav

faith that with whatever decision you make, youll be

She also stressed that every single day, we are preparing

our futures. Tribbles speech was very inspiring and le m

movated to begin my career in public relaons.

Aending Naonal Assembly was one of the besexperiences Ive had so far as a member of PRSSA. It gav

me the opportunity to network with an exceponal grou

of individuals who all have a similar passion and drive fo

the society. I cannot wait to take what Ive learned from

experience and use it to help CMUs chapter become the

it can be.

A PRSSA National Assembly Refection

Jenny and her group members receive their awards aer winning the public relaons

plan compeon for Duke Energy.

Jenny poses with other Michigan PRSS

members..

by Jenny Muscat

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