Semester Reflection Part One

Sorry this didn't post, I had it saved as a draft and not published! D:

• Describe in detail one significant academic challenge you faced this year. Why was it a challenge for you? Go in depth, use specific experiences, and explain how they contrast with a less challenging experience.

One challenge I faced during this year was channeling my emotions. I had some issues where I didn't channel my feelings "the right way" and got sent to the Dean's office. Working with such partners on projects made me feel run down and stressed out on the inside. It was challenging to work with such people because of the emotions I had felt with them in particular. A less challenging experience would be the projects I worked on with my best friend Emilie. We make a really nice pair and we get our work done, and I think it looks great, like our Slaughterhouse Five project, it got done a day early too! We finished with time to spare and it was super easy and nice to do.

• Describe one valuable mistake you made this year.

One valuable mistake I made this year was not going to office hours and caring about my math grade enough. I took initiative at the end of the year for the final but still didn't care enough for the quizzes before it. I would have passed with probably a low B or a mid B and wouldn't have to be praying for a 3% increase so I can pass with an 80%.

• What is your greatest strength as a student in a project-based learning environment?

My greatest strength probably would be my leadership abilities. I can take the lead at any given time with limited resources, I'm good at pulling things together at the last minute. I love taking the lead with things and helping manage projects. Such as Ampersand, I definitely had to butt my way into the group, but I'm glad I did, I helped take on tasks as a managing editor and I feel like my contributions helped the book in a lot of different ways.

Semester Reflection Part Two

• What is the greatest challenge facing your generation? What will be necessary to address it?

  I think that one of the greatest challenges facing my generation is the state of the country, and the world. Not only is our climate temperature rising, we’re in a recession, BP has spilled over 125 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico and my generation cannot get jobs. You need a previous job to get a current job. How could we do so when everyone denies you? There’s a surplus of people working their 50^th year instead of their 40^th year. Aside from jobs, the plastic consumption of America’s buyers has gotten too far out of hand. Water bottles have cut down on their cap sizes to save plastic, but so far those are just small steps. We need more promotions of BYOBag and getting reusable water bottles. We all have one thing in common, we all live on Earth, so why has everyone been treating it like dirt? “An Inconvenient Truth” helped, but that seemed to have brushed past everyone’s shoulders. People need to understand that how we’re living is only making it worse.

  Describe your vision for yourself in pursuing higher education.

  Pursuing a higher education beyond high school has always been the only option for me. My mother’s side of her family didn’t go to college. My mom got her GED in 2003 when she was 31 years old and I was in elementary school. Seeing that amount of dedication made me not want to give up. I want to create a new tradition in my family. Not dropping out, but going to a University and graduating, something that I hope will continue on after me. I imagine going to San Francisco and starting my life from scratch there. I imagine myself growing up and understanding from a 17 year old’s perspective how it is to live on your own. Not only will I continue my passion for Fine Arts and Art History, but I will grow up. I will grow up to become someone I have always dreamed of becoming, doing something that I love and can support myself off of.

  
  

  What in the world do you care about and what are you doing about it?

  I care mostly about the environment and our wastefulness. My Media Saves the Beach final product and my Ampersand final product both were on how we can all save the environment together. So far I have made a video about Bringing Your Own Bag to the supermarket, and how plastic can stay in your body. It’s a video that entices people to stop being so wasteful with plastic because it ends up hurting you in the end. My Ampersand piece was 5 steps you can do to “think locally and act globally.” It offers facts about reducing your carbon footprint and things like taking the bus places instead of driving and emitting more greenhouse gases.

  What four-year college/s are you interested in and why?

  Currently, I am interested in colleges in Northern California. More so like Berkeley, The Academy of Art University and San Francisco State University. Out of state I’ve been considering Cornish College up in Seattle, and I’ve been looking up traveling to British Columbia. I’ve always wanted to pursue some form of art because both of my parents are artists. My mom is a hairdresser and my dad is an interior/exterior designer, and I want to be a Photographer or an Art Teacher. Something like how Joshua Krause has his class. I’d love to immerse myself in my work, that’s mostly why I’m so excited for college.

Writing Reflection

During Semester One I made a video called ‘Who Cares?’ for Media Saves the Beach. My script went through at least 5 revisions in the 2 weeks before the video was made. It was constantly revised also, during the making of the video. ‘Who Cares’ was a video that featured multiple people repeating one or more phrases. It would have been a train wreck if I hadn’t used a script that was well rehearsed.

The Writing Tips we learned over the year were really helpful for structuring essays. Concerts not Pancakes was my personal favorite and it helped me create a strong ending and a strong finish and leave the stuff I’m not so sure about in the middle of it. One piece of writing this applied to was my Ampersand Piece. In the middle I have strong phrases but, the majority of it isn’t super articulate, so I left my essay up to the intro and the conclusion to kind of buoy it up to the surface of good writing.

The 2009-2010 school year has taught me strategies to writing a good piece of work. I learned to always overwrite, because you can just cut stuff out at the end. It’s always good to have extra things, and I learned firsthand how much easier it is to write more than necessary, because it’s harder to write a piece, and add more later. I’m definitely going to carry on these writing tips for all of senior year and through college.

My main goal for future writing would be to get to the point where I don’t ramble on forever about one thing. Even in this reflection I rambled! “. I learned to always overwrite, because you can just cut stuff out at the end. It’s always good to have extra things, and I learned firsthand how much easier it is to write more than necessary, because it’s harder to write a piece, and add more later” and I need to stop being so repetitive.

Some of my writing strategies I have now I have had since I was a middle school-er. I wrote a detailed outline with the thesis and words I wanted to mention, or quotes, facts or stories and then worked it into my writing. I still do this even for my Ampersand piece. I wrote what things I wanted mentioned, who I wanted to mention and how I wanted to mention them. Doing so, you can get the meat of the paragraph done with, and so you just need to worry about the fillings around it. It’s a much easier way for me to structure an essay, so I will definitely keep on doing that.

Bring a President to College!

I personally think it'd be pretty cool to run into Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He was the 32nd president of the United States of America and was an all around people person. Not only was he diagnosed with polio at a young age, but he married his fifth cousin's daughter, Eleanor Roosevelt! I think he would be a professor at my University because of his insight on things. He approached things without haste and realistically. "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself" is one of FDR's most famous quotes from his 1933 Inaugural Speech to becoming the President. There is truth to that statement, we tell ourselves to be afraid of things, it's programmed into us and we are afraid of being afraid. FDR would be an amazing teacher, and he could not only approach things in a new light, but he could provide political anecdotes and insight, which is very interesting!

FDR was and still is one of the most interesting and helpful presidents the USA has seen, he worked forwards in his efforts to help our nation and not completely 'bass ackwards' like his preceding president, Herbert Hoover. Not only can Roosevelt provide us with wisdom and help us imagine what it's like to control a whole country, but he can tell us how to approach situations with the most logic. In his famous "Day of Infamy" Speech, he says "As commander in chief of the Army and Navy, I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense." This was after Japan unexpectedly bombed Oahu and the US decided to bomb them. I believe that the president did what was in our best interest and that he reassured the people of the United States. So I really do think that FDR would be an amazing Politics or Public Speaking teacher!

Bring a Character to College!

If I had to choose any character from a book that we've read this semester to travel to college with me, it would be Bill Bryson and he would be a Professor at my school who teaches Environmental things! My main reasons for picking Bill Bryson for this trip to art school are the fact that he's funny and super sarcastic, which I am as well. He's knowledgeable and likes the outdoors and because he's very dedicated and hardworking. I think that one of the biggest reasons I picked Bill Bryson is because we are a lot alike. While reading A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson, I noticed that most of the things that he would say, I would say in that specific situation as well! In a way I also would like to meet him and have him be my professor because I am jealous about what he has accomplished. He hiked a huge portion of the Appalachian Trail and has great stories to tell about it as well.

Bill Bryson did two of some of my favorite things, wrote and hiked a trail. Well, on a much larger scale, but I do love to do both of those things. I feel like he would provide satirical insight about any sort of problem, and his humor reminds me of my late grandpa's, very dry and quick on his feet. I admire what Bill Bryson has done and what he pushed himself to do. So, all in all I would be excited beyond belief to have him as my college professor!

Mock Trial Reflection

1. Summarize the facts of the case, as presented by the prosecution. Include relevant witnesses and testimony.

The prosecution called upon John Adams, James Madison and Raul Grijalva. They testified that HB 2162 and SB 1070 were UnConstitutional and geared toward racially profiling persons who fit the description of Mexican or Latino.

2. Summarize the facts of the case, as presented by the defense. Include relevant witnesses and testimony.

Dorian and I as the defense called upon Russell Pearce, Jan Brewer and Robert Watchhorn. Our testimony is that it is not racially driven, since it states nowhere in the bill that it will be profiling or racially stimulated, and that it is a criminal law, not a federal immigration law. = not an international affair.

3. What was the most significant piece of evidence, in your personal opinion?

In my personal opinion, for the prosecution, the Constitution and Bill of Rights was the only way the won the case. Without that they wouldn't have set rights and natural givens, they would only have thoughts and morals. For defense, the SB and HB were definitely the most important.

4. What was the most significant argument made, in your opinion?

The one that was made multiple times by the defense is that the bill does NOT racially profile. Which I feel like we proved very well by having Russell Pearce, the sponsor of the bill read directly to the jury and audience.

5. What do you personally believe the correct verdict should be? Do you agree with the jury? Why or why not?

I think that it was an incorrect verdict. I believe that if it were based solely upon skill and presence defense should have won. But it is hard to sway a jury who already had an idea that they didn't like the bill. In real life, I don't know what I would choose. I agree with a lot of the prosecuting side, but at the same time, researching this bill I found a lot of things that I completely agree with. I think it is inhumane to let people illegally cross over and it can and HAS BEEN harmful to residents of Arizona.

Self Grade-

I would personally give myself a 60/50 for all of the nights until 1 am doing only Humanities work for the trial and constantly emailing Randy all hours of the day and night asking questions. But I suppose realistically I would give myself a 50/50 or a 49/50. I did so much work and Dorian and I held the group together by little strings while still trying to do all of our work. I believe I earned a straight A.

Final Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck’s novel the Grapes of Wrath goes in and out of focusing on the Joad family and migrant families in the Dust Bowl. Steinbeck sets up the novel’s chapters with the “zoomed out” version of the Dust Bowl migrant workers, and then proceeds to the next chapter with an updated Joad story.

Personally, the odd paragraphs with the more broad descriptions were slightly boring to me. It seemed like the paragraphs just went on and on and had no real purpose in the beginning. Toward the end about 3 chapters foreshadowed something happening in the end, but even then, 3 out of 15 chapters is not a great deal of literary sufficiency. The zoomed out paragraphs did however create a more approachable character and helped the reader feel more in touch with each character in the book.

The specific stories about the Joad family keep you mostly on track with the book and what it’s trying to communicate for the most part. The good thing about Steinbeck’s writing is that it’s mostly free to interpret. Although the story doesn’t have a clear ending, the beginning and middle do show the unfortunate endeavors and problems that a common migrant family would come across on their commute to California. The zoomed out paragraphs really just are used to accentuate what is happening, and they all link at least to one thing happening in a chapter previously or in the near future.

The novel as a whole really can make you feel like you can relate to the migrants, or on the other side, it can make you feel like you could never relate to it at all. The story truly would be a completely different thing if you took out the broader descriptive chapters that didn’t focus on the Joad family. It would be your common run of the mill Great Depression story. With the way Steinbeck structured Grapes of Wrath and chose his topics, it makes this book a classic American novel.

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Public Works Projects concentrates heavily on building dams, canals and many other things that directly benefit the nearby communities. Generalized, the Public Works part of it counts as anything from educational institutions and sewage management. Public Works was created to help offer jobs to people that were apart of the quarter to a third of Americans who had fallen out of work. During The New Deal, Roosevelt promised the 3 R's: relief, recovery and reform. One of the biggest things that came from this was Social Security which is still around in the present day.

Honors Novel: Cannery Row

Cannery Row is a story about people living in the same almost run down area, all working for various things. All of the people on Cannery Row were diverse but one thing they had in common was they were trying to obtain some sort of success. The definition of success varied from character to character, but it was a constant social issue throughout the story.

Most would say that Dora was the most successful character in the book, but in my eyes her success was based upon the exploitation of women. The one positive side of Dora’s business was using her girls to help out. When influenza broke out throughout the Row, she sent her girls out into the community to comfort the sick and bring them soup. Her success with the hookers was tangible, but the internal satisfaction with helping out the sick community was a more gratifying success.

Another interpretation of success can be counted as the party that Mack and his friends threw for Doc because they thought it would be a nice thing to do. Although the first time they attempted to throw Doc a party it didn’t particularly work out, but the second time the party worked out and it was a success. The level of achievement isn’t documented as clear as everyone else’s in the book, but they worked hard for the final product of the party and had a purpose in their lives.

Symbolism in John Steinbeck’s novels plays a large role so that he can portray his real feelings about a variety of things. Much like Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck throws in characters that accentuate his beliefs. With Cannery Row, much of what the characters did were not morally correct by the readers consensus, but by Steinbeck’s, you never know. Everyone has a different idea of success and throughout the book John Steinbeck proved that to be true.

Mentor Interview

Lauren Popp; Educations, Exhibitions, Extraordinary.

Lauren reflects on being a nanny in Ireland, travelling, her childhood and her love of immersive artwork.

"I just wish I could have split myself in two after college"

Lauren Popp is the Educations Programs Coordinator at the New Children's Museum. She was cool, calm and collected when I conducted our interview. She was dressed casually in dark denim jeans a black blouse and holding a coffee cup. Her answers go past her years in San Diego and into her childhood as an Air Force daughter. She's down to earth when she talks about her experiences with travel, and college life and how she got to where she is now. If she was ever tardy, as soon as she stepped in the room you were sure to forget it with her easy going attitude and light personality. She has a sort of aura surrounding her, which you can't help but admire.

Lauren was always very college driven, she danced throughout her life and through college, worked with choreographers and started college as an English major. Her sophomore year in college, she called the Art History professor Mary Vidal and asked why she would want to be an Art History Major. Mary said that “art history is literature, visual art, science, history, politics and more all in one,” and if Lauren wanted to “be surrounded by beautiful things all her life” she should major in Art History. She took one of the classes in Impressionism and was sold. She changed her major and has been dedicated to being an educator of Art History since then.

Throughout the interview Lauren mentioned artists that worked with more material items, rather than just paint. I asked if she preferred those to paintings and she said she likes "to be immersed in a space with a piece of art." Some of her favorites include Tara Donovan who is currently showing at MCASD. She also mentioned she favored the work of controversial artist Eduardo Kac.

Growing up, Lauren had a pact with her best friend in college that if they didn't have jobs by the time graduation came around, they would move to Ireland for a year or so and become nannies. All for the experience. When going into detail about the story Lauren lightly responded to my question of if she regretted anything with: "it doesn't do you any good to regret, so I don't regret not going, I just wish I could have split myself in two after college to do both things. Have a job, and go travel."

Currently, Lauren has been to Mexico, France, Switzerland, Germany and Spain. She has plans to travel more and wishes she went abroad for a year or two to teach English. She has plans to potentially go to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands this year as well. She mentioned that she thought it was "valuable to stay in one place for a longer extended time."

The New Children’s Museum is home to many dedicated workers such as Lauren Popp, many who have different but still interesting stories to tell. This internship and mentor interview taught me nothing other than that. Everyone has their own story to tell, and you owe it to them to appreciate that they are different and have different things to offer that you might not be able to.

Blog Intro

Lauren Popp is the Educations Programs Coordinator at the New Children's Museum. She is cool, calm and collected when I conducted our interview. She's dressed in a business casual outfit and holding a coffee cup. Her answers go past her years in San Diego and into her childhood as an Air Force daughter. She's down to earth when she talks about her experiences with travel, and college life and how she got to where she is now. If she was ever tardy, as soon as she stepped in the room you were sure to forget it with her easy going attitude and light personality, she has a sort of aura surrounding her, which you can't help but admire.

Highlighted Questions:

"What is your favorite type of art/artist/gallery?

Throughout the interview Lauren mentioned artists that worked with more material items, rather than just paint. I asked if she preferred those to paintings and she said she likes "to be immersed in a space with a piece of art." Some of her favorites include Tara Donovan who is currently showing at MCASD. She also mentioned she favored the work of controversial artist Eduardo Kac.

Where have you travelled and where do you wish to travel?

Lauren has been to Mexico, France, Switzerland, Germany and Spain. She wishes to travel more and wishes she went abroad for a year or two to teach English. She has plans to potentially go to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. She mentioned that she thought it was "valuable to stay in one place for a longer extended time."

Do you have any regrets in your career path?

Growing up, Lauren had a pact with her best friend in college that if they didn't have jobs by the time graduation came around, they would move to Ireland for a year or so and become nannies. All for the experience. Lauren said "it doesn't do you any good to regret, so I don't regret not going, I just wish I could have split myself in two after college to do both things. Have a job, and go travel."

How did you choose your major in college, since you mentioned you were a dancer prior to being a museum educator?

Lauren was always very college driven, she danced throughout her life and through college, worked with choreographers and started college as an English major. Her sophomore year in college, she called the Art History professor Mary Vidal and asked why she would want to be an Art History Major. Mary said that art history is literature, visual art, science, history, politics all in one, and if Lauren wanted to be surrounded by beautiful things all her life she should major in Art History. She took one of the classes in Impressionism and was sold. She changed her major and has been dedicated to being an educator of Art History."

Blog #1 S2

My first professional interview would be an interview with Lady GaGa done by Elle Magazine. There are the sic's in it, and helpful information in brackets.

http://www.elle.com/Pop-Culture/Cover-Shoots/Lady-Gaga

This one is a little bit different style than the Lady GaGa one, because the Lady GaGa one, it is exact quotes, no different information, but it still gets what the reader wants to read out there, and this one with Slash is long, detailed and has quotes and background information on him and his band Guns N' Roses at the time, so even someone with no knowledge of GN'R could read it and understand it.

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/15808331/slash_the_rolling_stone_interview

Good interviews not only have good questions, but they have good interviewers, if the interviewer is not serious and doesn't ask questions that need to be asked the article will suffer. The vibe always has to be a good one too, if it's not much like a conversation it doesn't particularly go as smoothly. That's mostly what I've noticed. Writers can use a various amount of methods to record the interviews, they could use a recorder, a video camera or just pull specific quotes from what the interviewee says. Or just ask the interviewee to speak really slowly.

Internship #14

*My mentor picture will be posted tomorrow morning when I get back in the office*

Lauren Popp, Education Programs Coordinator, The New Children's Museum, Downtown San Diego.

Interview Highlights:

What is your favorite type of art/artist/gallery?

Throughout the interview Lauren mentioned artists that worked with more material items, rather than just paint. I asked if she preferred those to paintings and she said she likes "to be immersed in a space with a piece of art." Some of her favorites include Tara Donovan who is currently showing at MCASD. She also mentioned she favored the work of controversial artist Eduardo Kac.

Where have you travelled and where do you wish to travel?

Lauren has been to Mexico, France, Switzerland, Germany and Spain. She wishes to travel more and wishes she went abroad for a year or two to teach English. She has plans to potentially go to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. She mentioned that she thought it was "valuable to stay in one place for a longer extended time."

Do you have any regrets in your career path?

Growing up, Lauren had a pact with her best friend in college that if they didn't have jobs by the time graduation came around, they would move to Ireland for a year or so and become nannies. All for the experience. Lauren said "it doesn't do you any good to regret, so I don't regret not going, I just wish I could have split myself in two after college to do both things. Have a job, and go travel."

How did you choose your major in college, since you mentioned you were a dancer prior to being a museum educator?

Lauren was always very college driven, she danced throughout her life and through college, worked with choreographers and started college as an English major. Her sophomore year in college, she called the Art History professor Mary Vidal and asked why she would want to be an Art History Major. Mary said that art history is literature, visual art, science, history, politics all in one, and if Lauren wanted to be surrounded by beautiful things all her life she should major in Art History. She took one of the classes in Impressionism and was sold. She changed her major and has been dedicated to being an educator of Art History.

Internship #13

Post 3 Pictures.

These blogs are getting harder to complete with the end of internship approaching because I have so much to do, so if one isn't up very early, that's why.

My desk is my primary base for the day, I do my blogs for NCM here, try and balance the school work we get with my internship work here as well. You can see I'm working on the Podcast Project since GarageBand is on the computer and my script is out on my desk.

"AEH Conelrad Device" is another Teen Studio installation, and I spent a lot of time assembling those little IKEA chairs, and thinking of possible safety restrictions. I spend a lot of time in Teen Studio.

My notepad, since I wasn't able to get a picture of my mentor since she was ill is the most important thing in my internship. I take it home with me and I always have it with me, it helps me remember everything since I have terrible memory. It remembers dates and deadlines and ideas for me like a good little notepad.

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Please post a summary of your week at internship. What were the highlights? What were the challenges? What was memorable and why?

Well, this week I was sick on Friday, and we didn't have any internship on Monday due to MLK day. I spent a lot of time at the computer researching podcasts to finish my project and I spent some time researching green ideas for a camp NCM is doing during the week. I FOUND POLAR TREATS! They are so cute and they symbolize how global warming is drowning polar bears and they're edible! Kid friendly of course. Some challenges I had were I really didn't feel well toward the end of the week, and it was kind of tough to be running around doing everything I needed to be when I felt under the weather. But Tuesday I'm having a meeting with Margaret and Lauren! And Friday is my Panama meeting and the POL and a guinea pig show. So I'm foreshadowing an excellent week!

Sidenote: I am really upset that I missed my site visit with Sarah and Sabrina though :( I was really excited to show them the show and everything I'm working on/doing. :( :( :(

Internship Pictures!

I had a request to put more pictures in here, so I figured I would make a post dedicated solely to pictures of my internship. There is some of my work I've done, some of the museum it's self etc..

My newest favorite installation in Teen Studio. Currently writing a blog for it for NCM.

Typical desk for me.

Assembling stools from IKEA for the newest Teen Studio installation.

You know, being business casual and whatnot.

This is "Missing Links" by Felipe Dulzaides. It's a huge jumpy.

Entrance Animal Art sign.

"Toy an Horse" by Marcos Ramirez Erre. You can go in it's belly!

One of our Art Studio options is to create your own Birdhouse.

The Fundreds installation was just replaced, but this is what it was prior, idea by Mel Chin.

One of our own installations "Animal Sounds!"

Oh and just a shoutout to Diana's advisory, my favorite advisory for actually reading these things and making me take pictures for everything!

Internship #10

This is my desk for the major part of my morning, I have read and researched "green activities" for our summer camps green week.

Sometimes I really wonder when I'm here how people can sit at a desk all day. I don't really sit at a desk all day, I have different activities I do at intermittent times in the day, but sitting here from 9-6 would kill me! I think it's a really good helper in showing me what I don't want to do.

Some questions I'd like to ask my mentor would be-

1) How did you decide what you wanted to do when you were younger since you have mentioned you used to take dance classes?

2) Why didn't you pursue being a teacher, since you were a teaching assistant earlier?

3) Do you pull a lot of your educational program ideas from your past educational experiences?

4) Do you feel like growing up all over America helped in understanding other cultures?

From these questions I plan on asking more branched off questions, but as of now those 4 are what I could come up with without seeming redundant from my past interview.

Mentor Questions

Where did you grow up?

I’m an air force brat, so I grew up all over—born in Omaha, Nebraska, lived in Ohio, Alabama, and Santa Maria, California.

Where did you go to school?

I did my BA at the University of California, San Diego, and my MA at the University of California, Riverside.

Do you have any interesting educational experiences?

I loved my programs at both UCSD and UCR. Something that really sticks out for me is work I did as a grad student in several Riverside High schools. I taught a course called “podcasting in the arts” and really loved working with the high school students.

Where did you work before NCM?

In college I worked for Trader Joes while doing internships at UCSD and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. After college I worked for MCASD, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., as a Teaching Assistant at UCR.

Do you have any siblings?

Yes, I have one brother who is 25 years old.

If you could move anywhere where would it be?

I can’t choose one place! Here are a few of my top choices: New York City, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Chicago, Spain, France, Sweden.

What do you wish you had done after college but haven't/didn't?

Taught English abroad for a year or two, or backpacked around South America.

What do you want to do before you die?

I want to speak Spanish fluently, live in New York City for at least one year, visit artist Donald Judd’s museum in Marfa, Texas, travel to (just to name a few places) India, China, Russia (where my family is from), Japan, Thailand, Peru, and Croatia, and become an expert seamstress.

Internship!

What new appreciations (for who? of what?) have you gained through internship that you did not have before? How did you develop these appreciations?

I have a new appreciation for everyone who works at a museum. I did not in a million years think it would be this hard to run a museum! I also have a new appreciation for my mentor Lauren. She is the person that so many people go to because she seems to have all the answers and ideas. I really developed these by just watching and listening to what people say about her when I tell them she's my mentor and listening in on what people say about the attendance of the museum, all the artists etc.. I have also gained a new respect for the people who staff the floors, they have to stand out there monitoring the safety of children all day and they all love it.

Internship Project Description

First, provide a complete & detailed project description.

For internship I have two projects I need to accomplish. I need to come up with a podcast proposal for NCM, so that we could potentially have a weekly podcast aimed at whatever age group I choose to propose it about. My second project is the "Bi-Weekly Blog" which I still feel should be named "As Told by Hallie". I have to write 2 blogs a week about anything I think should be written about and try to attract people to read it and come in to the museum. You can see my first blog about Fundreds here; http://www.thinkplaycreate.org/blog/?p=1096

Project description

Internship site: The New Children's Museum

Department: Education Programs

Project Title: The Bi-Weekly Blog and Podcast Proposal Project

General Description: A twice weekly blog about anything concerning the museum, and a proposal for the museum to make weekly podcasts.

Learning Objectives: The one thing that I need to learn that should help me a lot in my future is how to propose things. I don't know how to make a proposal or an offer, aside from bartering merchandise. I am really good with persuading and writing which thankfully are the main staples of my projects.

Organization/Company Objectives & Benefits: With both projects, we can gain appeal and hopefully draw more people into the museum who weren't likely to come in in the first place.

Schedule:

Blog- twice weekly, so it will finish when internship is over, and I do it Mon/Tues and Thurs/Fri of the week.

Podcasts- that will hopefully be done by the start of next week to the middle of next week. Most of my time this week will be spent on that.

Academic Skills: The skills necessary to the completion of my projects are mostly Humanities based. Lots of writing, and in my first blog for NCM I used the news story layout. I have a lot of appealing to do in my blogs and especially in my podcast because the goal is for it to be approved.

Technical Skills: Lots of researching and compiling. Also, familiarizing myself with all of the programs I have to use.

Collaboration—Skills and Opportunities: I'm also apart of the Teen Advisory Council here at the museum, so I can tie in a lot of what I do in my internship to what I do with TAC.

Exhibition Plans: My exhibition plans are all going to be displayed online and on the NCM Blog or website hopefully. I will probably be exhibiting my first podcast through Quicktime.

Next, provide a summary of your week.

I really enjoy coming to the museum like I actually work here and I make a contribution even in the slightest bit. I met some challenges with the blogs because I got to a point where I really just did not know what to do with them, I was so confused about what I should write about then I had to dig in to what I would want to read and thought, lets market the idea of coming here as a teenager! I would describe the first week as getting into a pool very slowly and then deciding its not worth it and doing a huge cannonball in. The first couple days were like a stick your toes and feet into the pool and get used to it, or at least try. You see it doesn't work so well and you figure okay well move it or lose it I need to get started on everything I don't have time for being nervous around other working people and you jump in and you're immediately surrounded by a 9 to 5 job and actual tasks that someone who worked there would have. It is such a cool feeling to fit in with an actual museum!

Interview Internship!

I'd really love to learn more about Lauren and how she ended up here, and since she's been filling me in on her current project here at the museum I'd love to know in what other ways I could help her out with anything. I'd probably end up interviewing her in my office on a Wednesday or on the floor since we're closed Wednesdays to the public somewhere in the afternoon.

Some big ideas are:

How did you get to your position?

Have you had this position at any other companies?

How did you find out about NCM?

I'd love to learn more about those questions because I would potentially be interested in her position when I'm older or something in the education department. I love the atmosphere here!

Internship #4

1. What academic skills could you use on the job?

I can use all of my blogging skills from Randy's class, my editing skills from Chris's class and my math skills from Darren. (very minute math!)

2. What forms of collaboration could you use in a project?

I'm pretty sure this question is asking me if I could combine mediums? I can combine mediums in an expressive way of how I have worked throughout my time here, even though it's only been 5 days.

3. What technical skills can you use at your internship?

Lots of blogging already on top of the 4 weekly blogs for school, lots of web searching and podcasts, and combining information.

4. What new things can you learn while working at your site?

I can learn to be more work oriented, and obviously how to dress more business casual! I'd love to still see as I stated in previous blogs how the bigger picture comes together with so many people.

5. How can you exhibit, showcase or otherwise share your work?

I can put it up on my blog, youtube, email it to people, have it travel by word of mouth, see if I could display it somewhere, anything really.

6. How can your work or your skills & abilities help your company or organization?

In the last blog I answered this question. But, I think I can bring a new teenaged perspective to this company. I can bring new ideas that they maybe didn't think of, I can do lots of things with computers and computer programs etc...