Good morning, I'm pleased to announce to you that yesterday, we sponsored our first professional music recording session. This initiative has been a major one in the context of our planning and we are greatly pleased to announce to you that it has just officially began. The post about the update on the final output (mixed and mastered) will be posted as soon as the mastering and mixing of the track is finalized on Friday. All the bills have been settled and below is a rundown of the cost.

A summary of what the session will be about:
1ST Music Exhibition Budget: 70 STEEM (including transportation cost) though a low class studio but we believe it's a good place to start.

Artiste: @renald
Song: The Heart cry
Genre: RnB

Some footage from the session
https://youtu.be/-vi2FVST3es

A brief word from @renald
https://youtu.be/PRLSxv4eaPI

Before the end of the week expect to get the mastered piece from this handle. Thank you so much guys. It's Bait and I'm bringing you words from the Offline Minnow School.

For those who seek to know what this project is all about, you can read that below;

Our core objectives

The center of the focus of this objective is to take STEEM beyond writing and through STEEM create a network of influential young people that will influence their society with positive impact like STEEM has done for them. Making STEEMIT in Nigeria grow into a community that sustains itself.

THE OFFLINE MINNOW SCHOOL SKILL ACQUISITION PROJECTS:

With this initiative, we will be empowering hundreds of young people who have an entrepreneurial midset. Educating them not to trust in the former status quo. Hence, acquiring various skills that will shield them agaisnt the plague of unemployment in the third-world. The sole aim is to foster the emergence of new entrepreneurs that thrive on voluntarism and are capable of collectively driving our nations economy to where it ought to be.

BUDGET: 1200 USD

Trainers: this will include fashion designers who will be coming to teach fashion designing and tailoring during the course. This will also include caterers who will be teaching bakers and lastly the teachers who will be teaching coding. The beneficiaries are to choose just one of the three skills available during the course.

Materials: since all the courses are practical, we will need to get materials such as; fabrics, measuring tapes and will be renting some others that may be quite expensive to buy.

Venue: Arrangements will be made with the student union government on issues regarding provision of one of the university halls for the program. However, we will have to pay some amount.

Publicity: In order to increase the number of participants and beneficiaries, we will have to make some publicities through printing of flyers and banners which will be placed at the venues during the course of the program.

Following courses will be taught

A. Fashion designing and tailoring: we will be needing some fabrics and machine and these are to be provided by the trainers includinf myself. All trainers will bring their sewing machines so all we need to buy will be fabrics to facilitate the training. This training will be run for an entire semester.

B. Catering and Baking: This will include cake making, cooking at professional level and soft interior decorations. Similarly, trainers will come with their equipment to facilitate the project this will only go on for 2 weeks to cut cost.

C. Graphic and WebsiteDesigning: With this project we will be helping the digital and Tech enthusiasts learn the basic skills needed to navigate through areas of their interest. This will be done in collaboration with my Tech team from steemexchanger.ng and steemx.gh.

We will be doing this in collaboration with the @STACH, @steemexchanger and the National Economics Students Society of Nigeria, University of Port Harcourt chapter which happens to be my department. We already have the permission of the president and in a few weeks everything will be set in motion. Also, the STACH community where I moderate will be sending their delegates on campus to ensure that the program is a success and kick start it once the next semester begins.

2. THE OFFLINE MINNOW SCHOOL TALENT HUNT:

We will give minnows who are not really writers but are endowed in other areas of gifting such as singing, painting, dancing, acting an avenue to express their abilities and get their creativity conceptualized. In simple terms, we are giving these young people words and a voice to resound the appropriate message. The ultimate implication is to awaken the writwr in them.

BUDGET: 500 USD

Judges: this will be in charge of moderating the offline contests. We will be having three judges from the music department of the university. This will be another means to promote steemit to a different demography.

Publicity Materials: Our goal is to promote steem beyond writing while we help young and talented individuals ignite their dreams. We will be printing publicity materials to increase the number of beneficiaries.

T-shirts: We will be giving these out to all participants and on it will be the STEEM/STEEMIT logo and the logo of all our sponsors.

Prize pool: The top 3 winners will be sharing from the prize pool. However, only the first position will win the recording contract from @theminnowschool.

Here young people will get to showcase their God-given talents and the value they have to give to both the online and offline community. We will be sponsoring professional music creation. And with these gifts we'll strike a balance in all our broken communities will emerge with this. Each session will come in a space of 3 months after a successful contest in the offline among various talents.

The founder of SECMAN Music Studio embraced our spirit of volunteerism and on his part will be giving us slash to help heal societies with music and also help spread the message we preach through STEEM in a musical way.

An offline Open-mic sessio;
https://youtu.be/0BQivTDH-i8

One of our own
https://youtu.be/HsCzmn8ACzY

Our offline campaigns
https://youtu.be/cSD6NR3ka_4

https://youtu.be/ReSg_JCERbY

Thank you very much guys for reading. It's been a pleasure serving you through the means. I hope you make an unwavering commitment as a response to the content of this article and build the best version of your blog.
>know this and always remember that your blog today is not all that there is to obtain...

I am @bait002 and I am a lover of steemit.

THE OFFLINE MINNOW SCHOOL OFFICIAL