Internship Project Ideas

1. What skills would you like to develop at your site?

I'd really like to develop more skills in the areas such as being able to create a proposal to market a certain idea to a group of people, and I'd also really like to just see how people work in a larger company. How people seamlessly work together is pretty cool!

2. What interests do you have regarding the work done at your site?

I really am interested with how they find all of the artists. I'm interested in how they come to finding them, do they go to the artist or vice versa?

3. What needs can you address (needs your mentor has, your company has, etc.) based on your skills and interests?

Video Editing and Blogging. A lot of programs my mentor and company has they aren't as experienced in them as I am, because of HTHMA, so I have been testing out new programs and am giving my mentor a demo of iStop sometime in the future. Also, with being a teenager, I provide a whole new outlook on things, a younger perspective so I think that could help out a lot as well.

Internship #2

What have you actively done to start off on the right note?

During the two days we have been at internship, I have been extremely courteous to all of the staff members, trying to contribute my ideas as much as possible and to not be a nuisance to them. I've been silently watching on the sidelines watching the flow of the office and I feel like I now know enough to be able to start co-existing in the same office as everyone else. I absolutely love interning there. It's only been 2 days and I'm already upset that it will be over so soon.

What have you actively done to create interesting opportunities for yourself?

I created my own project pretty much that was adapted at the same time as my MYO Teen Council project was. So now, I've taken it upon myself to get as much of everything as I can done before internship is over, and concentrate on mostly the Teen Event we are planning. I've already found a band to play at it, and I've also been actively looking for more entertainment acts.

What have you actively done to advance the interests of your mentor and/or site?

Well, this question kind of confuses me and doesn't make sense to me, so I'm going to talk about how I feel like I've made a good impression on my mentor and her fellow employees. Firstly, I believe very strongly in respect and broadcasting it as much as I can, I'm polite to everyone I meet, I try to finish every task that I am given within a good amount of time and to the best of my ability, I am prompt and on time and I try and look deeper for more and more options of work I can be doing. I have already been to a meeting with most of the staff that works closely with my mentor Lauren, but I have worked closest with Darci, our Events Coordinator. She is super nice and has great ideas for the teen events. I always try and make my perspective heard because I am coming from a younger age group, which I feel could be beneficial to the museums teenage range of museum-goers.

What can you do in the immediate future to improve yourself and your experience in the above areas?

I feel like the speed that I am going, and since I have been related to the museum for such an extended amount of time, that I am a good intern, and I think that really taking on more tasks and doing work that carries on to after internship ends could help. I really do feel like my experiences at school with blogging have helped me with my internship since I have to have a bi-weekly blog.

Internship Day One

My First Day at The New Children's Museum as an Education Programs Intern!

This is my desk area in the corner of my office, you can see

my little friend in the corner left of the bookshelf. I have my

own name plate as well. :)

This is the lil' fella on my bookshelf!

I did this for a lot of the day, I was cutting out "Fundreds" for

our upcoming Teen Studio exhibit. Learn more about it at

www.fundred.org!

Teen Studio is empty?! I have never seen it like this,

it almost looks lonely! Weird.

Questionare!

1. When did you wake up?

I woke up at the round time of 7:45

2. What did you have for breakfast?

I didn't have breakfast, it makes me feel nauseous eating as soon as I wake up, so I snacked throughout the day.

3. How did you get to internship? How long did it take? How did it go?

My mom took me and of course had to try and take a short cut and was stubborn and lost and so I got there 2 minutes early instead of the 10 I was anticipating. It took 15 minutes, when it could have taken 7!

4. What did you do when you first arrived at internship? Who did you see? Who did you talk to?

I saw one of the girls who works in resources, and my mentor Lauren. She showed me my office which I had previously worked in and then she took me to the terrace level which is where the most important people to the director work, (so they can be within a doors distance away) and I met everyone who worked there, like the Events Planner, the Technical Genius Gavon and I also attended a meeting! :)

5. Where do you work (in the company, in the building, etc.)? What is your area like?

I work in "the Basement" which is the LL of the building next to a couple other people. My office is technically the biggest one in the museum too! :) My office is filled with art supplies and art done by little kids and a computer and desk and my own extension number!!!

6. What did you do for lunch?

Pretty much sprinted to Horton Plaza and met up with Libby and Faith who intern at a Law Firm and NBC for lunch, then sprinted back to the museum and finished most of my work.

7. What did you do during the afternoon?

I cut out Fundreds, researched podcasts, and came up with a new project idea that is extra for internship.

8. What type of work do you see yourself doing in the next few days?

I'm going to be helping with the workshops with the kids on the days that we have field trips coming in, I'm going to be helping set up Teen Studio, I'm going to be hopefully proposing my Teen Event Night to my mentor and the Events Planner.

9. What do you feel prepared to do? What do you think you'll do well?

I'm prepared to do it all! My schoolwork has helped tremendously with speaking on camera, stop motion videos, speaking in public and blogs!

10. What are you going to need to learn to succeed at your internship?

iStop and probably learning how to work in an office all alone, it's weird not having anyone within talking distance of me!!

11. What makes you excited about working there?

The people there are all sooo so nice and genuinely interested in the museum which is great, they all have spectacular ideas and the opportunities excite me as well.

12. What makes you nervous about working there?

It kind of makes me nervous because I am the only intern there, which I feel like people will take advantage of having someone below them be able to do some of their grunt work and not being able to finish all of my projects.

13. When did you get home? What was your afternoon/evening commute like?

I got home at 8pm because I went to work after internship. But the commute from internship was nice as well, the museum is closed on Wednesdays to the public so outside was very calm and warm and I waited for my dad to pick me up outside of the museum and watched all the people work in the museum on cleaning it and tidying for tomorrows open day!

So excited to be there, I can feel that there's going to be some great things coming from this!

Nature Blog Part Two

Describe specific connections between the text you read and your experiences in the many aspects of MSB.

Honors History Blog

1. Discuss your successes as an honors student this past semester.

I think that being in honors has not only helped me push myself to achieve the best that I can in my favorite subject, but it has also helped me out a lot in a sense of writing essays. I’m better at writing theses and I’m better at evaluating and analyzing an essay promt.

2. Discuss what you might have done differently if you do this past semester of honors over again.

Definitely I would make a better effort to get all of my blog assignments done, and time management with my essays and my reading schedule.

3. Discuss your goals for honors in the second semester.

I really want to get a better grade second semester, because I feel like I’m capable of it, and I can, I just forget to turn things in even though I finished them!

4. If you could choose any parts of literature and history for our honors work, what would you pick and why?

I would choose the Holocaust for History, because I am so interested in it, and since it’s a part of my family’s culture, I think it would be extremely helpful to me. Essentially, I think it would help out the common stereotype that only African Americans suffered in the past, because it’s not true. For literature I would really love to read George Orwell, because I feel like the prompt could be really interesting to write about, like the free and wild thinking.

A Walk in the Woods

Hallie Chavis

A Walk in the Woods

Bryson and Katz's relationship changed throughout the book from tolerating each other to forming a tight bond with each other because of multiple things including Katz’s health problems, the trail itself and their prior experiences together. In the over 2,000 mile trail, there are many different things that could go wrong, including bears, deranged moose’s, getting off trail and all together things that could result in an untimely death. All of those components have the potential to strengthen any relationship.

Prominent from the beginning of his introduction to the book, Stephen Katz has had health problems due to his past addictions. Katz is a former drug and alcohol addict and as an after effect of taking contaminated phenylthiamines, he has to have food in his system at all times, or else he will start seizing. It is apparent that his recent way of life has even taken a toll on his endurance. He falls quickly behind Bill Bryson, the narrator and author, by miles at a time. His appetite and hunger for reality becomes quickly identifiable within the story. Bryson doesn’t particularly know how to approach this situation in the beginning, but does start to recognize his health needs, and turns from hesitant about it to understanding, which is one part of the structure of their friendship.

The Appalachian Trail itself is a test of your endurance and your spirits. Aside from the length and the ever-looming dangers, the terrain is rough and rugged. Maps are hardly detailed and descriptive enough, and leave many places out. So often hikers are left by themselves to figure out the actual trail. Throughout all of the experiences on and off the trail, the hiking duo had gone through Hell and back to continue along the trail. Often stopping in small towns, or at rest shelters, the pair grew a stronger bond. The AT was a challenge for both of them, and even mentioned in the beginning of the book, Bryson cheers that he won’t have to hike alone, throughout the book, he becomes more thankful that he didn’t have to do the massive hike solitarily.

Prior to the Appalachian Trail, Katz and Bryson had traveled to Europe together and ended up not getting along so well. Their relationship was overall tumultuous and dysfunctional but the narrator essentially makes you infer that if it hadn’t been so up and down, it wouldn’t have ended up as good as it had. Their friendship was a direct result of the hardships and struggles they had gone through, and reflects that they can achieve anything together.

Bill Bryson and Stephen Katz are polar opposites in the bigger picture of things. They started out being slightly cordial and finished their trek with a better understanding of one another. A Walk in the Woods is a very good representation of how something difficult can change people. The Appalachian Trail is over 2,000 miles long and crosses over multiple states. It tells the story of two men and their journey through this trail, and to finding out who they really are.

A Walk in the Woods Essay Prompt Q

My ideas for writing this essay on prompt 3, "How does the relationship between Bryson and Katz change and develop over the course of the book?" would be answering first off with the thesis, which would be phrase along the lines of "Bryson and Katz's relationship changed from (list only 2 or 3 moods they went through) because of multiple things including (list only a couple reasons, somewhat broad, elaborate more in body paragraphs). Then I would have a separate paragraph for each of the contributing factors of why their moods changed toward each other. Then I would wrap it all up in the conclusion paraphrasing in a new way how they changed and concluding how feelings can change when you hike the Appalachian Trail.