Man, our students' internships are so awesome!
I started today at Cobra Puma Golf, where Sydney T is interning with Jose Miraflor in the Research and Development department. Sydney's intern project is to do a competitive analysis of women's products, collecting and analyzing at the product ranges of seven competitors in order to see where they are competing and at what price points. As Jose put it, "in my department we have a bunch of men making choices about products for women - having a young woman working here for a month, we wanted to get her input!" You can read more on Sydney's blog, here.
I started today at Cobra Puma Golf, where Sydney T is interning with Jose Miraflor in the Research and Development department. Sydney's intern project is to do a competitive analysis of women's products, collecting and analyzing at the product ranges of seven competitors in order to see where they are competing and at what price points. As Jose put it, "in my department we have a bunch of men making choices about products for women - having a young woman working here for a month, we wanted to get her input!" You can read more on Sydney's blog, here.
My next stop was the Leo Carrillo ranch historic park, where Lucas will be starting on Monday (his planned internship with San Diego Parks was abruptly cancelled following last week's fires, but he's taken this in stride and found an amazing-looking job. More to follow on this next week!)
Then on to San Marcos Elementary, where Francisco is interning with librarian Dylane White. Francisco's work ranges from organizing books to helping students use powerpoint to reading aloud and recommending books. He writes on his blog that "One skill that improved the most is being able to listen to multiple kids at the same time because around three to four kids rush up to me and ask me questions on something about their reading level and "where are the chapter books?". Francisco also has been using the book scanner to check out books, which he describes as a childhood dream.
For his internship project, Francisco is researching all the summer reading programs happening across the county, and creating a presentation and brochure about them to share with parents. You can read more on Francisco's blog, here.
Then on to San Marcos Elementary, where Francisco is interning with librarian Dylane White. Francisco's work ranges from organizing books to helping students use powerpoint to reading aloud and recommending books. He writes on his blog that "One skill that improved the most is being able to listen to multiple kids at the same time because around three to four kids rush up to me and ask me questions on something about their reading level and "where are the chapter books?". Francisco also has been using the book scanner to check out books, which he describes as a childhood dream.
For his internship project, Francisco is researching all the summer reading programs happening across the county, and creating a presentation and brochure about them to share with parents. You can read more on Francisco's blog, here.
After that I drove back down to Berggren & Associates land surveyors in Miramar (which coincidentally is next door to the UPS Store HQ, where Daniel is interning).
Andrew is at Berggren and Associates, interning with John Berggren himself. Before their meeting with me, they had been in Chula Vista, surveying a site for a deep well that will be dug there. For his internship project, Andrew is going to research cutting-edge surveying equipment and make recommendations about what (if anything) the company should purchase.
All three of the internship projects I heard about today exemplify the main quality of a good internship project: it should be an high-level, extended, coherent piece of work that a more senior person would love to be able to do, but will never have time to do themselves.
As is becoming traditional with my final visit of the day, I forgot to take a photo of Andrew and John - but you can read more on Andrew's blog, here.
Andrew is at Berggren and Associates, interning with John Berggren himself. Before their meeting with me, they had been in Chula Vista, surveying a site for a deep well that will be dug there. For his internship project, Andrew is going to research cutting-edge surveying equipment and make recommendations about what (if anything) the company should purchase.
All three of the internship projects I heard about today exemplify the main quality of a good internship project: it should be an high-level, extended, coherent piece of work that a more senior person would love to be able to do, but will never have time to do themselves.
As is becoming traditional with my final visit of the day, I forgot to take a photo of Andrew and John - but you can read more on Andrew's blog, here.