I was going through my pictures today and organizing them into folders and making sure I can keep track of them, this can be a challenge with a poor memory at times. As a little car guy growing up, I was always interested in cars and because of this and reading through multiple car magazines, I always ran across this thing called the SEMA show.
Over the years it has blossomed into a huge multiple day event in Las Vegas where anyone and everyone related to the car world goes. As the main website states, "It draws the industry’s brightest minds and hottest products to one place, the Las Vegas Convention Center. As part of the AAIW, the SEMA Show attracts more than 100,000 industry leaders from over 100 countries for unlimited profit opportunities in the automotive, truck and SUV, marine and RV markets."
Basically it is the Rolls Royce of the car event world and every new and amazing product, concept car or other new thing is displayed and shown off. When I was asked to go out over a weekend in my first semester of my senior year to work this show, I almost fell out of my seat. I was extremely excited and I had no idea what I was in for.
The show went on forever and had anything my heart desired. I spent a long time working the show and talking and networking with car people from all over the world. I spent my time doing everything from giving demonstrations to talking to new customers to giving interviews. It was a blast and was really a dream come true for a 22 year old.
The really cool part of the show was that I was able to learn from the show and then learn how to transport the ideas used in Vegas to a worldwide display area. People in the states do not always have an understanding of how things work outside the USA borders and being a midway point for the company should prove to be an interesting task and job.