This week my PR class from GCSU had to opportunity to travel to Flagler College and speak to a Sports Marketing class and their PRSSA chapter. We left Sunday morning and arrived in St. Augustine Sunday evening around 5:00. Flagler put us up in the World Golf Village Renaissance Hotel. Once we settled in we met with two professors from Flagler and ate dinner at Cady Shack, the restaurant Bill Murray owns. Monday morning we had the amazing opportunity of touring PGA Productions (soon to be PGA Entertainment)! We were able to see everything they did as a production studio, from where they store their film to their TV studio, editing rooms, and recording studios. It was amazing to see what a real life; professional production company looks like and see their day-to-day operations. We headed over to beautiful Flagler College and spoke to a Sports Marketing class. These students seemed eager to hear about what we at Georgia College do to promote our Athletic teams and games. It was a great experience being able to simply share what we do and see other students gain insight from it. After speaking to the students we went on a tour of the campus. Georgia College is a beautiful, historic college but Flagler is a different kind of gorgeous! That night we went and cheered on our Bobcat Basketball Teams as they both played and defeated Flagler! It was definitely fun to be able to cheer for your home team during an away game! I think they needed us there, cheering them on, in order to win! Tuesday, we had breakfast at Beachcombers, a little restaurant on the beach, and then headed back to Flagler to speak one last time. We listened to their PRSSA chapter tell us of all the exciting and innovative things they do at Flagler. I wasn’t aware that we were going to get to hear about what they did, but I was glad we got to because they are doing some awesome things around St. Augustine! After speaking to them we ate lunch in their amazing, Hogwarts-isq cafeteria! Talk about some amazing food! After spending time with our Flagler friends we finally said bye and headed back to Milledgeville. We will see some of them again when they come in April to see firsthand what we do with promoting athletics. Besides the 5 hour (maybe longer) van ride, the trip was a completely positive experience! I am so thankful for this opportunity that Flagler University and Dr. Ginger Carter Miller and Al Weston gave us!
