Blog 7 - Second Interveiw Preperation

Interviews 

1. Who is your mentor and where do they work? If their workplace does not reflect their expertise, what makes them an expert?

My mentors name is Joseph Rosales, and he works for San Bernardino Storm Water Pollution Prevention. There job involves handling water conservation as well as water pollution. 

2. What five questions will you ask them about their background?

1. How did you get in this career?
2. What made you choose this career?
3. Did you have to go to college to get this job?
4. What do you enjoy most about your career?
5. What is the main focus of your career?

Blog 6 - Advisory Prep

Blogs

(I'm enjoying this project)

1. What has worked well for you concerning your senior project? What has made it a positive experience for you?

My Senior topic is really interesting to me. I have enjoyed researching it so far and enjoy when I find out new things about my topic. I think having the blog is a good way to keep myself organised so I can remember what I have done and can go back to it if I need too. 

2. What are you finding difficult concerning the senior project? How can you adapt to make that portion work better for you? How might the senior team help?

Concerning the senior project I do not yet have a mentor, but have spoken to a few of the senior team about it and I am working towards getting one. I also don't think this is a problem yet, but I have no idea what I'm going to do my independent component on. I think for that I'm going to try and find examples from previous senior projects and then work on making my own idea of one.

Blog 5 - Interview 1 Reflection

Interview

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview? Is there anything I would do differently for other interviews?

The most important thing I learned from this interview was that I should always come prepared with a lot of questions and shouldn't be afraid to ask follow up questions. The questions should just be yes or no questions, and should be more open ended. In my next interview i'm going to definitely have more questions, and try to make the interview longer if I can.

2. Did I get additional resources and contacts? What is the most useful and why?

I got a few more resources, such as websites and books. A helpful website that he gave me was motherjones.com. The person I interviewed also directed me toward a few scientists journals that I might want to look up. Also, as mentioned in the interview, he is helping me get a hold of some people that deal with water in Nevada. He also had me interview someone who works in water conservation over the summer, and I would be able to contact him for more questions.

3. What makes my interviewee qualified to help me? 

My interviewee is qualified to help me because he works for a company that deals with and teaches people about water conservation. It teaches kids and adults more effective ways of farming. This includes teaching people how they can farm without the use of pesticides and without wasting water. He knows a lot about the subject of water conservation and about walker lake, which is a large part of my project.

Blog 4 - House Advisory Prep 1

House Advisory

My topic is water conservation. Since we are in a drought and I have had personal experience with the consequences of others wasting water, I thought this would be a good topic for me. From this topic I mainly hope to learn how to prevent wasting water, and how to teach others how to not waste water. People would be surprised on how little every day things can help conserve water. I would also like to help prevent farmers and large companies from wasting water. There are so many alternatives that they can use, yet they still use methods that wastes the most water. I would like to learn how to teach these people that conserving water will benefit greatly in the long run.

Blog 3 - First Interview Preperation

Interview

1. Who do you plan to interview? Why?

I plan on interviewing my summer mentor, Jeff Bryant. I plan on interviewing him because I think he would have good answers to these questions. I believe he would have good ideas on resources that I can use on my topic and he knows people that I can talk to for more interviews.

2. What additional questions do you plan on asking? What are open ended questions?

• Do you have any articles that you recommend for me to go over?
• Where can I go to find out more information about my topic?
• What is your opinion on water conservation? 
• Do you think that its extremely important for people to start changing their habits on wasting water?

Open ended questions are Questions that can't be given a straight or one worded answer. An open ended question can have many responses to it and can in some cases lead to more questions.