A Day in the Life

My internship varied from day to day which made it very enjoyable. On any given day I would be in meetings, scheduling and organizing guest speakers, creating content for blackboard, and much more. My favorite part was the entire restructuring of the term project for ASU101. The reason I enjoyed working on that part so much is because the project transformed and took on several incarnations before it was finalized.

For those in this internship class who were ASU101 instructors in the fall of 2014 the term project was the Changemaker Challenge. Which consisted of groups of freshmen writing business proposals to Changemaker that helped to address public problems. The end results were very hit or miss. Knowing that my initial goal was to take my knowledge of social entrepreneurship and revamp the project into a college level run and organized project that was rebranded the Innovation Challenge.

From that point there was talk of a new college pedagogy and how to incorporate it into ASU101. The initial idea was to fuse the pedagogy into the innovation challenge. My biggest concern was that the project would become way too burdensome and become too large for a one credit hour class. My final solution was to scrap the all the ideas of a term project and build something new from the ground up. The new project named the Community Impact Portfolio was well received and was a collaboration between myself and the person tasked with service learning for the college.

The reason that I shared this experience in a condensed manner was to explain that I was very active in decision making processes and that a day in my internship involved a magnitude of creative and critical ways to solve problems and find solutions.