 And I'd like to welcome you to the student takeover. Basically, we're just going to give you a bit of a glimpse into the stuff we've been doing as other activities aside from just classwork and things like that. And the stuff you can join and how you guys can get involved. So my name is Anna, and I'm a first year in the creative media production program for my bachelor's. And I'm also in the student council working as the media communications officer. Hi, everyone. I'm Selena. I will be with Anna moderating today's takeover. I also will say first a little bit about me. I'm studying my first year of master's degree in fine art. And I'm a social media ambassador for Pratt College. So yeah, if you ever want to share something through our social media channels, feel free to contact me or Sky. I will talk about her in a little bit. We want to start by introducing everyone so you get to know us. And if you have any questions by the end, you know who to reach out. So yeah. So I will start with Melving. If you guys can give a handshake or something so that I can recognize you. So Melving here, he's the founder and creative director of Agora Magazine. He's studying the VA in graphic design. Then we have Mirna. She's Mirna's editor-in-chief from Bosnia. She studies BSc computing. Then we have Stania, social media manager from She's from the Czech Republic. She's studying her VA in graphic design. Then we have Senya. She's second year of Fine Art Experimental Media Program. She's the lead of Art Society and she's student council member. Then we have Art. He's the president and head of gaming society, second year bachelor student in IT. Then we have Skye. She's music society leader. She's also social media ambassador with me. And she's studying MA future design. And yeah, we also, yeah, I think that's, I say all of us. So yeah, so just, we're just a bunch of students participating on school activities and anything. You need guys any questions or, you know, we will be now like talking about all the different things we do, but just don't, don't doubt to reach out or just pop your question on the chat. So anyway, we'll like, I think guys, let's start everyone to just say a little bit what you are working, working on. We'll start with the student council insight presentation. All right, I believe that is my cue. Exactly. With that, allow me to take the floor. Again, hello, Art, School of Media and IT, specifically IT, second year student council president and head of gaming society. Hi, it's me. Not she, by the way, he. Thank you very much. Selena. Yeah, so student council, we are essentially students who are doing extracurricular extracurricular activities for the school, such as organizing events and various social media things and things of that sort. For example, during the last semester, we helped organize the welcoming party as well as the Halloween party. We have kicked off a discord server over the ground just to name a few things. And yeah, in addition to that, we also technically oversee the societies, although to be honest, I'm just content to let societies do their thing. And we have, of course, myself from gaming society. We have Rania from the art society and Skai from the music society. More on that will be later. And yeah, I believe Anna will take over the next part about the socials of the student council. So just to carry on what Art just told you guys, we have a bunch of social media where we try and basically spotlight what the students have been doing and what you've been up to and stuff like that. And as he mentioned, we've got now a discord server. So we're trying to do a bit more hangout since we're all stuck indoors and stuff like that and make it a bit more interactive so we can actually get to know each other because most of us have not seen each other at all since we started university. So we're trying very hard to make it a more interactive place where all the students can kind of make new friends and hang out outside of just Zoom classes and whatnot. And we've got a Facebook, I'll just share it now. We've got here a Facebook where we just kind of post what's going on and whatever events or new posts or blog posts which Sky also does about music playlists which our students curate and also then the Instagram, so same kind of thing for our announcements and the new discord server. And I'll put the links down in the chat as well. All right, I think with that, we can move on to the next item on the list, namely Sky because we did mention on the societies and music society has been by far the most active out of them all and Sky herself, the head is present. And I think Sky has something to say about the society she now leads. Yeah, Sky, take it away. Hello, I'm Sky and I joined the Prague College only a few months ago in September, October, what was it? So, well, I was going to start here in Prague. So I moved to Prague in the summer and I don't know anyone here except for my boyfriend, like there's no friends here. So I thought, well, my classmates are only seven of which most still are not in the Czech Republic at all. And all I thought was like, I need some contacts, I need some friends, I need some like, I don't know, I'm quite a social person. So, well, I took the first opportunity I saw which was the student council. And well, I got really excited from what they were telling, like just people organizing stuff. They thought, okay, well, cool, I'll join that. And so, from joining that, I got an email and it was about the societies asking like, so who would be up for leading some society? And there was the music society and I love music and I've been playing music already since a long time. So I thought, oh yeah, why not? So I kind of joined that too. Well, that kind of was really a fun experience. And we actually, I got to do a few fun stuff with a group of like around 10 people who joined the music society. And we actually gave it a name, it's called Unmute Now which kind of comes from this digital experience. And yeah, it's been a bit, yeah, like when you think of music society, I kind of think that all these musicians would come together, right? Or at least like people play guitar or sing and you would come together and make music. But since we cannot actually come together, it was kind of a challenge to figure out like how we're going to make this work. And well, I guess you have some of the things that we have actually done. And yeah, for that, I'm going to share my screen and you should be able to see a video now or play it from the start. Okay, there you go. So you can see in here a few things of what we've done. And well, I can show you like this is our, let me check Facebook page. We've been creating digital because yeah, we are still like with a few people who really like to like create music. So I would like to also like just since we're here anyway, it's like to hear a bit of what we've made, for example, one of the members came up with this website called Soundtrap where you can actually compose together. And I thought it could be cool to show you like one of the things that we actually, a song we worked on together with a few members. So this is one place. So you have a bit of an idea of all things we're creating. So this is like one of the things, but what I really wanted to take advantage of in this time where it's digital and we cannot just make music together is also to include a lot of people who just love music and they don't have to play an instrument or have to sing or even like make the music, but also just to talk about music, to share things and stuff. And well, one of the things we, I started doing is like this Spotify playlist creators where students just bring in their songs, give it, they're a playlist and name and write something about it. Yeah, this is one of the things and yeah, like there's blog posts coming out about them and stuff. So yeah, this kind of what I wanted to show you about the music society. And I would say like, if you love music, then you can join. You don't have to play anything. If you do, it's really fun. Like I hope one day we can kind of actually come together and play and like share thoughts and stuff together. But yeah, so I'm thinking, yeah, one of the things I've done also this week, for example, is I wrote an article about music for the Agora magazine. And this is my bridge towards the people of Agora magazine. The mag, yeah, nice job. Yeah, so like she said, she is participating in the process of producing the second issue of Agora magazine. And this is what we're gonna give you guys a quick introduction of the magazine itself. So first, hi everyone. I'm Melvin, like I was like introduced earlier. I'm the founder and also the, let's say creative director of the mag. So I mostly handle like management duties and also like key graphic design, also like tasks. Hey guys, my name is Stania and what I do for Agora is I take care of the social media, especially Instagram, which I'm gonna tell you more about a little later. Hi everybody, my name is Mirna and currently I coordinate content for the website, which is still under construction. And I also work as a content creator, writing articles and doing photography. Okay, so first I'd like to say something about what our goal is here at Agora. And it's to offer you a platform where you can share some of the content you create and any creative work you have. It's not necessarily directed at a certain art form. It's very open and the main goal or aim is just to offer a creative outlet so you don't focus all of your time on your studies and to have something as a hobby, gain maybe some exposure, participate, just engage yourself into something more. All right, so Agora is on four main platforms. The first one is of course the actual magazine which is in digital form. And every quarter we have a different theme of the magazine so it contains a themed content. Then the second one is actually a new one. We have a website where we post creative content as well, both related and unrelated to the actual magazine. Then we have Instagram where we're focusing on the exposure of the magazine and promoting it, but also giving students the chance to share some other stuff that they do. And then last but not least, we have our own podcast series where the students or the team talk casually about different topics, about graphic design, art, anything. Yes, so I'm gonna focus a little bit more on the magazine because it's kind of like the key platform that we have on Agora. So like Stania said, it's quarterly and it's themed. And let's say that the content is more thoughtful, it's more in depth than the content that we have, for instance, on Instagram, or that's what we'll have on the website. And for this, we have like a 12 week process. So the first phase of the process is ideation where the whole team, well at least the whole team that is participating in the production of the mag, we'll just like check each other's ideas and then we'll bring some together to find like the right content. Then everyone will produce the content and then I will make the design of the mag itself. So as you can see, it's just like a few spreads of the form issue for we have like articles but to also have photography, 3D, we can also have illustration. We don't have much restriction about like the content itself. For instance, we can have like content that is like crossing over multiple platforms such as this article, which is also in audio on Spotify. And we have like another example, for instance, we have like some motion work, which is like still in the mag but is in motion on Instagram. So yeah, just like it's kind of like a playground, you know, it's like a sandbox for your guys and you can do anything. It can be photo, it can be a video actually, it can be like music even, who knows? Just like creative freedom and you can do whatever you want. I like to start by introducing the roles we have at Agora here a bit. More, they're mainly divided into the core team and the content creators. Currently, the core team has five members to which are not here and three of which are Stania, Melvin and me. They mostly work on coordinating the production and they are a bit more intimately involved with the project and the content creators. It's a bigger network of people and they're more, let's say loosely involved and they just focus on creating the content. So what I like to say how the roles are defined is as a core team member, you can participate in the project by helping it grow and evolve because this is something that started by the end of last year, somewhere around there. So it's a relatively up-and-coming project which means that you can offer a lot and you can contribute a lot as a core team member but also as content creators even though it's a bit more relaxed and doesn't have as many responsibilities, you can still help by creating content for the magazine where we can display it, show off your work, maybe help you gain a bit more of a reputation and so on. The core team is currently in need of two positions, somebody to handle the financial, like a financial aid or something similar and somebody to take care of marketing because to help us gain a bit more exposure but the content creators that's entirely for you to decide. So basically anything you think may be helpful or even anything you want to offer, you can just share any type of artwork you create whether it's video, illustrations, 3D photography, whatever as long as you want to express yourself and you have something to show. All right, so on Instagram we focus mainly on two things and the first one is on the actual content of the magazine. We let students talk about what they did for the magazine and share the content to actually get people to check the actual magazine, which you can see on this slide and on the next slide, we got different series of posts dedicated to different occasions of the year or celebrating the places that the students are from because we have a very international environment or we also let students share some other of their work, paintings, drawings, illustration could be really anything. We're currently also launching new types of content so we'll be very happy to have new contributors and if you're interested, you can definitely email us at this email that you can see and we'll also be very happy if you go and see what we do on our Instagram and also on our website. Yeah, so as a kind of like an end note, I'd say that, yeah, just like see the magazine, Agora has a playground so that you can experiment, you know, like share your work, but also like collaborate and build or at least start building a network with some other students and maybe some professionals because you have like a teacher that is participating in the project and let's see in the future might have some other teachers or like some professionals. So, yeah, I think it's a nice opportunity for you guys just to have fun and yeah, like feel free to ask anything in the QA session or at least to like send us an email or like DM us on IG and I thank you guys. Okay, just to add on to what Melvin just said with the, that you guys can email them as well to ask any questions or to join. You guys can do the exact same thing with the student council if you're interested in working with the student council, feel free to message us on one of these platforms or even if you just have any questions about how things might be, we can try and help you as well or if you want a more direct student approach to these things. So you guys can let us know as well. Yeah, I don't know if Senya wants to say something about the art society. Great. The art society and I also, as for Agora also participating as a collaborator and content creator. So I created several paintings for Agora magazine which you can check out on the website and everywhere in the Instagram. So yeah, in art society, if you want to draw just as a hobby, if you're not an artist, you can come and just have fun because the society does not require people who are like studying at finance programs. So even if you're, I don't know, studying for, I see something you can come and have fun and just do the silly things. So yeah, that's kind of the whole thing about art society that we just do some fun stuff. And if you want to talk about art or just sketches that you made, you can come and do that. That's kind of the thing about art society. I don't have a lot to say. So I think that's all. Thank you. Thank you, that's great. I will just want to share everyone where you can find other social media links. Like if you go to the Prague College website and for sure like you figure out for yourself and maybe Rai or someone has told you, but here like are all the links and we are too as TikTok. We just started it, but you found us as in Instagram with Prague College and everyone is putting down in the chat their links. So just make sure you follow us because we are very active on social media and we are actually posting almost every day of different events or things that are happening around any society or any school of Prague College. And I think everyone already talked and gave a lot of input and insights. And as you can see, like we're just a group of students that you can just reach out at any time. You might have some comments or questions now. So please feel free to just turn on your mic and ask away or comment away. Yeah, I think we'll need to give permissions for people to talk, which is technically I'm co-host, but I'm not sure how this works. Yeah, hey guys, I'll step in and start kind of giving giving those permissions and whatnot. I just want to say thank you, you know from student services and everyone for sharing your insight because I think you guys do a really great job in your respective projects and things that you get involved with. And yeah, it's super cool to have the student perspective shared in such a cool way. So I just wanted to say thank you for that. We're probably going to go ahead and stop the live stream at the moment. Anyone that wants to get in touch with either our student council, Agora Magazine or any of our societies, of course you can reach out to student.console progcollege.cz or you can just check us out on all of the various social media platforms that we're active on. There are many in the chat, so. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The list at this point. Yeah, and we'll also put these together a little bit later in one concise place so everyone can take a look at them. So yeah, on that note, I just wanted to again say thank you to all of our panelists for sharing their insights and then yeah, we're just going to change gears a little bit and we're going to open it up to questions from our current students and kind of get them in the room and get them involved. So anyone who has joined us live, thank you for your attention. We hope we gave you some interesting insight and we look forward to hearing from you and also sharing some great projects throughout the year. So thank you very much.