Hi everyone,
I will spend week one shadowing Mr. Levinson at Paramount Apparel in Bourbon, MO. In week two I will be working at Washington Library in the morning and shadowing Grace Austin at East Central College in the evening. In week three I will be shadowing Dr. Leonard at Cherry Hills Veterinary Hospital in Wildwood, MO. In week four I will be going over to Lake Osark to work on dock construction with one of my relatives. In weeks five, six and seven I will be shadowing Mr. Schnurbusch and other CPAs at SFW Partners.
For my Senior Project, I will be shadowing at six locations: Cliffedge Marketing, Dardenne Prairie City Hall, Elasticity, Larry Hughes Basketball Academy, Entercom, and Higher Focus Photography. The main focus of my Senior Project will be interacting with professionals in the field of marketing. While not all of the sites are marketing businesses, each site has marketing within them. I will be shadowing those who work in the business at each location and observing what their daily routine entails.
The goals for my Senior Project are: to get out of the classroom and into the real world for a change, to experience different types of marketing at a variety of locations, to get a feel for the size of each location, to get connected with people in my future career pool, and to learn from people who are doing the job I aspire to do.
For my project, I will be shadowing people from different medical fields and a Barrister at a law firm.
So Saturday John gave me an update where he said he was talking with Schnucks corporate to find me an internship there because he doesn’t want me to personally talk with someone of higher status which I respect and I am grateful for all the work he is doing to get me a few days with corporate even though internships are usually done with collage students.
The next thing is Core my dad said he had a co-worker who could dump a boat load of information on me if I was interested in learning about business or accounting or something in that area. I would like to say that if I did that I would not be working with my dad I would be working with his co-worker.
I’ll try and keep you guys updated on what I am going to do next and on my senior project.
For my senior project, I’ll be going to two different schools (Chesterfield Day School and Community School) and helping the teachers supervise the students.
My second week at TREE House, I learned a lot about the actual therapy that they do. I learned how and why they use horses to conduct therapy on people. (I’ll save the interesting facts for my presentation) I also learned how I can help, as a side-walker, to make sure that the therapy is getting done right. Side-Walking is when you, as a volunteer, walk on the side of the horse and hold on to the child or adult to make sure that they are safe and using the right muscles in their body to hold them up. It was definitely the highlight of my entire shadowing experience. I got to work with so many different people who were riding and using therapy for all different reasons. There were people who used it for mental illness, behavior, empathy, concentration, focus, to strengthen their proprioception and vestibular senses, and to use the horse for physical therapy. It was really eye-opening to see the range of differences the horse can strengthen.
Last week I was working at Green Pines Elementary in their Special Education classroom. I spent the week shadowing the paras and learning how to work one on one with kids as well as in a group setting. It was really cool and drastically different to see how classrooms in a small public school work. Although, it was a public school, the classroom I was in reminded me a lot of what one of our classrooms would look like. There were varying grade and skill levels. There was one on one teaching and lessons as well as group lessons. It was just really eye opening to see such a different style of teaching than I am used to.
I got to know a lot of the kids really well, there were nine in total. I also got to teach and work with a lot of them by myself. This was probably my favorite thing I have done over the course of my senior project. I really got to teach and interact with kids with all kinds of different abilities. It was really awesome and made me want to teach more.
Thursday and Friday at Lumeris were very similar to the rest of the week, but Thursday was a lot more laid back as it was the end of a work cycle. The group had finished their project so I spent less time following these people on their projects. I took some group photos of them along with a model sail boat, which seems to be a tradition over there.
At Monsanto, or Beyer, I spent Monday talking to a bunch of different people, including biotech engineers and computer scientists. The next day I went to a different campus, the North Campus, and shadowed some of the computer scientists there. I was given some work there where I was let to fix some of the small errors in their programs.
I finished my first week at the Wildlife Rescue Center. Throughout the week I helped with feeding baby squirrels and cleaning their cages, cleaning out opossum cages and help with transferring the babies to their bigger cages, cleaning water fowl cages, and laundry. One of the things that I found interesting is that the staff hang shredded pieces of newspaper on top of the squirrel cages to help them learn how to make nests, it also helps with enrichment.
Today I started volunteering at the Wildlife Rescue Center. I think I came at a good time because they have a lot of baby animals, they call this baby season. So today I jumped right in and got to feed baby squirrels. They were really cute but there claws were pretty sharp, I also cleaned their cages. I also fed box turtles and cleaned their cages.
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