I organized a TEDx collaboration with our school, creating a one-hour experience of three different talks for all of my schoolmates.
The project began when I decided to pitch an idea to the director of my city's Tedx talk that year. The concept was to promote their event at our school, with the benefits being that the Tedx main event would receive free advertising directly to their target audience, and my classmates would have a great time hearing new and inspiring ideas.
The metal plaque was added after this picture was taken. It doesn't look like this.
Our students' association needed an activity to wrap up the year, and I proposed organizing a school time capsule; as soon as my peers heard the idea, they were all on board.
The most difficult challenge we faced was that we planned too fast and thought that any container would suffice, but it turned out that if we wanted the time capsule to preserve everyone's belongings for many years, it had to be made of a special airtight metal. There was only one company making them, and they were also based in the United States, which created a budget problem. One-third of our budget was going to be spent on shipping it from the United States to Mexico.
We solved the problem by discussing it with the vendor, who said they could assist us with a special discount.
Now that the budget difference was smaller, we decided to seek more funding by speaking with the student association's head teacher. After explaining the problem and informing him about the discount we received, our head teacher approved the new budget, and we were finally able to inform students about the event and appoint someone in each classroom in charge of collecting every student's items.