Aida was this year’s high school production, with music written by Elton John and Tim Rice. This year, on the 23rd and 24th of January, Tabitha was fortunate enough to be given an opportunity to set up a baked goods stand to offer light snacks to the audience before the show began.
For this event, we baked brownies, as well as sold snacks at the stall. All proceeds from this event went into funding next year’s project week trip to Cambodia, which involves paying for materials to build houses for the underprivileged. Selling and baking goods for a cause we believe in was an extremely enriching experience for us, and we managed to raise a total of around 790 SGD.
Through this experience, we explored learning outcome 5: Demonstrating the skills and recognizing the benefits of working collaboratively. The event incorporated the help of various people within the GC, some baked the goods, some funded the costs going into the goods, and some took time after school to set up and sell to the audience.
We worked together to bake a variety of food items and managed to sell goods efficiently by giving each person at the stall a role. Given the chance to do it again, we would need to work on effectively communicating and predicting just how much food we need for the event, as there was a substantial amount of goods left over after the event. Although this was taken back by the group members, it would be more reasonable to make as much as we are planning to sell. In addition to this, we would also probably cut out the drinks because it did not sell as well as predicted, and the pricing was more complex due to having to rent out additional reusable cups.