Halloween Party Project

You are planning a Halloween party for a group of fifty people.

You are to select at least eight different sandwiches (or main food items to eat), four side items, three drinks, and two desserts for a varied selection of food at the party. BTE - You can make up your own prices, as long as they are reasonable. ICT - You must use a restaurant chain that I can validate the prices for (Subway, Pizza Hut, etc...) ICT must also provide for cups, plates, utensils, and napkins.

You are allowed to spend $400 (including tax!) **(ICT: $450 budget)

You are to develop an Excel spreadsheet to list the items, quantity, price and total. Make your spreadsheet attractive by using borders, shading, clipart, and format all appropriate cells for currency. You must use formulas to add the values!!!

You also need to use Microsoft Word OR Microsoft Publisher to design an invitation to the party. Again, use color, clipart, wordart, etc. to make your invitation attractive.

Make sure that you have enough food for 50 sandwiches and enough sides, drinks and desserts (and for ICT, enough plates, etc.) to feed all 50 people.

You should use 8% as the tax rate!

Your final project should consist of:

§ Spreadsheet for party

§ Invitation

This is due TODAY.

Fortune 500 Project:

In this project you will research the following about a Fortune 500 Company:

• History - tell me about the general history of the company. How did it start?
  
• Organizational structure - who is in charge? Board of Directors? CEO?
  
• Products and/or Services - what does this company sell?
  
• Any new innovations the company has come up with
• Finances - what was this company's income for last year? What is their stock symbol and what value is it currently trading at?
  
• Future - does this company have any new ventures planned?
  

The company you pick to research must be on this list.

You will compose a three page paper minimum (and that does NOT mean two and a half) on the information you have found. The first paragraph of the paper will be telling me why you picked this particular company to research. The remainder of the paper should follow the above guidlines. All information should come from the company's website (or their corporate site) and you MUST list this source within your paper (this does not have to be MLA format).

You will design a cover-page for your paper that includes the name, address, etc of the company, along with their logo.

You will also design a letterhead for this company.

This project is due Wednesday, October 25, 2006.

Your report MUST be in either a 10, 11, or 12 point font and should be double spaced. The title page does not count towards your three page minimum. If you cannot find all the information you need from the company's website, you may use other sources, but you must list them for me.

Anyone caught plagiarizing on this assignment will receive zero credit. This assignment is worth 200 points.

Letterhead example:

Get your web license from PBS!

Click here to take the test for your Web License. Answer all the questions. At the end, print out your license (it should have your first name on it).

Career Interest Inventory: The Color Test

Getting to know your interests and work styles.

• Register with The Princeton Review. You do not have to use your full name, first initial and last name will suffice. You may use the school's address if you do not want to use your own (321 Stanley Drive).
• Take the TPR Career Quiz. (There are only 24 questions)
  
• Print out the results from your color test.

On the left hand side of the margin, careers should appear that match up to your survey results. Pick two that interest you, click onto the career and print out the material hyperlinked for each.

You will then type a paragraph explaining why you chose this career in MSWord.
You will also design an attractive cover sheet to be attached to the front of all of your information.

Staple them in the following order:

1. Cover Sheet
2. Color Test Results
3. Career Materials (2)
4. Explaination Paragraph

You should be able to finish this today - no problem.

Researching Industry Certification
ICT

What is an Industry Certification?
Industry Certification in any computer based is a very impressing Resume addition for anyone looking for a computer related career.
It is not a replacement for a college degree.

What is required?
Most certifications require TESTS, and lots of them.
Each test can range from $20 to over $100.
By the end of the testing process, it is normal to spend anywhere between $150 to $5000.

So what’s the assignment?
Research the following certifications

• CCNA
• Microsoft Office Specialist (formerly MOUS)
• MCSE
• IC³
• A+
• ACE
• MCP
• CIW

What you will tell me...
What is required of EACH certification. List the tests that are required as well as the most appropriate path to take (some certifications such as MOS have different paths. Others, such as IC³, do not).

Most certifications have multiple paths to complete any certain certification. Pick one path and TELL ME WHY you chose this particular path.

What you will use...

• Microsoft PowerPoint
• You will develope a slide show explaining each certification.
  
• This will be ONE SLIDESHOW, not 8. You should have multiple slides per certification topic. Remember, do not put so much information on one slide that it is hard to read.
• You must have images withint this slide show. There is no minimum or maximum, but with a slide show, more images is usually better.
  
• YOU WILL NOT PLAGERISE!
  

THIS IS DUE TOMORROW
No exceptions...so don’t ask...

College Application

http://admissions.uwa.edu/apponline.asp

CNN Technology News Blog Post

You are to go to CNN's Technology Site and choose an article to read. You must them write a summary of the article.

Post this summary to your blog.

This is due TODAY.