Ian volunteered at the 2011 IMPACT Awards Celebration... Here are his thoughts.

Many professional businesspeople have been selected to represent Boise in big ways. Some of these main business people have been shown favor at the impact awards dinner, which makes it even more memorable. Being in a room full of ecstatic, helpful, smart, successful business people gave me hope for getting experience with the public relations field. Also, because of the intensity of the night, with much excitement about the people who showed interest in the students and decidedly were giving us opportunities, it was very refreshing to get contacts and get a head start on the professional business field. Besides getting a head start, some of the other things that can be taken away from this is that professionalism is key in the business field, which was generally helped reinforced throughout the night, and was virtually impossible to avoid. Also, there were plenty of chances to improve with the help of professionals, the repertoire of careers that we can choose from. This dinner had tedious work at the beginning as volunteers, and while getting contacts, the volunteers were the last to leave, however, it was a genuinely worthwhile experience full of genuine people and that great company plus great hospitality with the Boise Center for Performing Arts made it that much more of a great event for all involved. All these reasons are arguments that can be had for why this was such a worthwhile experience, and hopefully there can be more experiences like this for me in the future.