Move over, Simon Cowell. ACU now has a Facebook page dedicated to discovering students’ various talents ranging from bowling to painting called ACU’s Got Talent.
ACU’s Got Talent is a forum where students are able to post their ACU appropriate tricks and skills and receive feedback from fellow students.
Business students Jennifer Guerrero, Mireya Reyes, Stephen Prather, Taylor Truitt and Riley Smith were urged by Dr. Brad Crisp, associate professor of management sciences, to create a webpage for their Management Information Systems class. Jennifer Guerrero, business marketing major from Abilene, was the brains behind the website with the support and help of her team.
“I wouldn’t have gone through with it if my team didn’t give me the reaction that they had. They were intrigued and excited about it just as I had hoped other students would respond,” Guerrero said. “After ruling out other options, we all decided to implement this idea into a Facebook page where we could interact with and be available to a large group of ACU students.”
Jordan Smith, junior history major from Escondido, California, has posted several links to the ACU’s Got Talent page.
“I recently self-produced and recorded my own album. I want to expose my music to the Abilene community and encourage others with the gift of music,” Smith said. “My hope is that it helps ACU students with extraordinary talents put themselves out there by celebrating the diversity and gifts of the student population.”
Smith said he appreciates the page but feels it needs to be managed more actively and to garner more attention. Guerrero agreed that the page needs more exposure, and she hopes more students will begin to participate on it.
“Ultimately, we hope that the word will catch on and more students will be eager and brave enough to post their talents on our page,” Guerrero said. “We want this to be something personalized and only for students at ACU, a place where we can share ourselves and our God given talents with each other. Hopefully, more and more students will begin like our page and view it regularly.”