Is it necessary for design students to participate in design competitions during their college years?

According to the "learning cone" theory put forward by American scholar Edgar Dale (1946), learners can remember different contents (average learning retention rate) after two weeks by adopting different learning methods.

Reading can remember 10% of the learning content; Listening can remember 20% of the learning content; You can remember 30% by watching the demonstration; Participate in the discussion and record 50%; Personal practice can remember 75%; Teach others, remember 90%.

This shows that not practicing optics is equal to not learning, and the unity of knowledge and practice is true knowledge.

For those who study design, the most important thing in the process of finding a job in the future is to speak with works. If it's just for fun, or just to hand in an assignment, this mentality and standard are definitely different from the standard for participating in the competition. No matter what your major is, college life is easy to pass in a daze. If you set yourself a small goal of the competition and try to implement it with the goal as the guide every time, college life may be different.

I saw the story of Ye Ziyi in the book "Top Students in Friends Circle" and shared it with you.

Ye Ziyi is now a star photographer. She used to work in advertising. As soon as she graduated from college, she joined the famous advertising group HarmonyOS. How did she do it?

Ye Ziyi University has worked very hard for four years and participated in various advertising creative awards.

Including the Oscar Award of the well-known Chinese College Students' Advertising Art Festival in China, the Golden Calf Award in Taiwan Province Province, the ONE SHOW Advertising Festival in the United States, the Oscar Award of the China Youth Creative Competition and the Beijing College Students' Advertising Festival held every year in China, etc., she participated in it and achieved good results in every field. Various honors, successfully entered the internship of Ogilvy & Mather, the most famous advertising company in the world.

Later, she was invited to participate in Intel's creative competition project, which is a reality show, and Ye Ziyi will eventually become a champion. I received an invitation from HarmonyOS Group in Singapore to work in HarmonyOS, Singapore for half a year after graduation. The salary for half a year is 200,000 RMB.

This may be a perfect case about competition. Even if ordinary people don't have the opportunity to win all kinds of championships, accumulation, works, experience, contacts and so on. Will be very conducive to self-improvement and future development.