Senior Projects

My schedule was basically the same for the second part of the week. I would be with Mrs. Camp in the mornings helping with whatever she needed for Social Studies. Ever Friday Mrs. Camp has a couple of the kids give presentations on their favorite celebrities. She will video their presentations and show them to the other classes on Monday. This week I learned more about Shawn Mendes! In the afternoons I either help Mrs. Camp or Mrs. Fuller with the kids in work experience. The kids either do work experience at Straubs or the school. I have really been enjoying my time with the kids and teachers!

Thursday was my last day at The Sheldon. There wasn’t a concert that day it was actually an award ceremony for a bunch of non-profit companies in the STL area. There was a networking event before the awards were given out. I helped make sure the networking event was going smoothly and all the staff had what they needed. At the end of the night I said goodbye to everyone I worked with. It was sad to leave but I am happy I got this experience.

My dad and I went on a sales drive. It was long and we drove around a lot. We had a few businesses on our checklist to just walk in and introduce ourselves. Other businesses we just saw and walked in. With things like a sales drive you have to be prepared for no. If someone thinks you’re trying to sell them something they’ll be on guard and almost won’t want to listen to you because they think that you’re a waste of their time and energy. Usually, if you just ask to talk to someone they will let you talk to someone. My dad and I probably knocked on the doors of 10 different businesses. We didn’t get a single definitive yes. We give every business our business card and will check up on them every once in a while. If the business has IT trouble later, then they might remember who we are and give us a call, which is the main idea behind the sales drive.

I finished the week by ensuring I had an accurate layout and understanding of how CSI worked with each new call; the lifecycle of one job. I thoroughly enjoyed working with Pam and Katie. I was also able to meet one of the technicians named Byron. The four of us laughed a lot and they all taught me about the company by sharing their specific perspective of their job. I enjoyed visiting Nashville even though I was not down town. I was able to see a family friend that lived there and ate a scrumptious burger with parmesan truffle fries. I would enjoy going back to see them all again.

This week I have been shadowing Mrs. Camp who is the social studies teacher at Promise. Promise is a school for kids with special needs. I help Mrs. Camp with her classes in the morning and each class is 27 minutes long. In the afternoon she helps with work experience. Work experience is where the kids will help do chores around the school like change the trash bags or clean the windows. For the kids 16 or older and who meet the qualification, they can go to Straubs grocery store and help bag groceries or help clean the store between 1-2:45. She had been awesome to shadow and I have absolutely loved being with the kids!

The other project we did this week was replacing a bathtub and installing a shower, and adding a railing to help the lady go outside to her backyard. The two best parts of this project was getting to help sledge hammer the cast iron bathtub and how amazing the lady was that we were helping. Sledge hammering was really cool and very loud! The other volunteers were older gentleman who were great to work with because they were teaching me different technics as we were working. We didn’t finish the project this week, but they will finish next week when I am gone. This was my last week at Restore and I had a great time and Rhiannon was a great person to shadow! ( I will definitely keep in touch for the summer internship programs!)

Today is my first day at salon prive. I’ll be here through saturday, and then again next week on wednesday. the chemistry behind hair products and hair dye is super complicated and interesting. i want to learn more about hairstyling. It’s a little bit boring here though. theres not really anything for me to do, and it’s not like I can talk to Mandy very much because she is busy with her client. I’m thinking a lot about whether or not I want to go to school for cosmetology. It’s really interesting, but I’m not sure when I’ll have time to go to cosmetology school. It’s only a 1-2 year course, but i would still need to become licensed in whatever state i want to practice in.

Lots to think about, and im super exhausted.

For the fifth week of my project I was with my uncle at our family real estate company. When I first arrived at the office my uncle had me do cold calls to try and find tenants for one of the companies buildings. My uncle gave me a list of around 50 possible tenants from another building that had a condemned parking garage. I called everybody on the list and was able to get one tenant to rent a space in the building.

For the next couple days we ended up touring lots of potential clients in potential renting areas. My uncle taught my how to interact with clients when doing a office tour.

still may need to do some work on them, but getting the other pages done are the priority at the moment. As they are, they will do.

Yesterday I was at The Factory working the Tenacious D show. Which if you don’t know who that is, it’s Jack Black’s band! (Hopefully you know who Jack Black is). I got there at 10am and mostly helped in catering. This show was similar to Lil Wayne in that food was out all day but it wasn’t exactly the same because this food wasn’t preselected. Jack just wanted a local restaurant to cater with fresh food. This food also wasn’t just for Jack’s team, it was also for him and his band! So he was hanging around at the venue in the afternoon, eating and talking to people. That is how I got to meet him. He gave a fist bump and introduced himself to me and asked my name. This was right after he came off stage from sound check. And after he came off after the show, he gave me a really big hug and said “we did it man, we did it!” This was defiantly the best moment of my internship. (and probably my year!)