Blog 10 - Interview 2 Reflection

Interview

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Game from the water conservation fair

1. Please explain how your spending your mentorship time (Is it at a workplace or somewhere else? Are you shadowing? Are you able to do tasks that are meaningfully related to this topic? If so, what? Are there other people who are experts in this location? Etc...)

I am spending my mentorship time at the Montclair city hall. I am working in the stormwater section, and am shadowing and working with Joe Rosales and his coworker Wendy. I have shadowed them during routine inspections for restaurants and manufacturing buildings. I have also helped contribute to the water conservation fair, by helping creating a game and going to the fair and helping run the game. There are not a lot of people in storm water or water conservation, but there are other people in the different city halls that deal with it.

2. How did you find your mentor? How did you convince this person to help you?

I found my mentor with the help of Mrs. Ortega. He mentored a senior last year who had a similar topic to mine, so with her help I was able to contact him and ask him about a mentorship.We met a couple days later at his work, where we talked somewhat about what we would be doing in the mentorship, and he agreed to mentor me.

3. How would you rate your comfort level with your mentor at this point in your relationship? How does this relate to the time you've spent so far at mentorship/with this person?

I am pretty comfortable with my mentor. He knows a lot about his work so i'm able to learn a lot about my topic. He has taught me a lot about the procedures that are required to make sure that contaminants are being kept from storm water.

4.What went well in this interview? Why do you think so? What do you still need to improve? How do you know? How will you go about it?

I think I was able to learn a lot about my mentor and his career in this interview. The questions weren't too complex but I learned about his job and the college he went through to get his job. I think I need to improve asking more follow up questions, and possibly more open ended questions. I could do this by reviewing other interviews.

Blog 9 Advisory Prep 3

Blogs

1. State whether or not you currently have a mentor, and what the status of your interview is with that person (I have completed the interview, I have scheduled the interview, I have not scheduled the interview, etc.)

I have a mentor named Joe Rosales, and I have already done my interview.

2. At this point, your research is probably guiding your studies toward more specific areas within your topic. Name the area or two you find most promising and explain your reasons.

The most promising and interesting portions of my topic are the the inventions people are creating to help conserve water, and how the lack of water is affecting ecosystems. I find these the most interesting because with these new inventions we can potentially help of fix the ecosystems that are being destroyed from lack of water. The ecosystems also interest me because they show the affects of the drought and why we cant afford to waste any water.

3. What kinds of sources do you think will help you in the next to gain more research depth? Where will you go to get them?

I think since this is a more modern thing so a lot more internet and newspaper articles will help me. I have two books that I plan on reading that have a lot to do with my topic. I think sources based on the water and its affects will really help me out.

4. Write down a possible EQ. Please don't worry about wording other than ensuring that it provides the option for multiple correct answers. At this point, the senior team is most interested in understanding your thought process.

What is the best possible way to conserve and protect our water and ecosystems?

Blog 8: Indepedent Component 1 proposal

Independent Component

1. Describe in detail on what you plan on doing for 30 hours.

My independent component is going to be based on finding how much people really know about water conservation. With water conservation being such a hot topic right now, people tend to believe that they know everything they could possibly know about it. In truth though, there are a lot of important details that people have never even heard of. For my component I would be making a survey to find out the most common details that people don't know about. I would also using this survey to hopefully prove why educating the public about water conservation is so important. I will ask about ten questions to at least 100 people. The people will mostly be people I don't know, for example I could walk around the mall for a day and take multiple surveys. I will also be doing a lot of research on the questions I can ask, and then some more on how I could help people if they don't know an answer to a question. When this is done, I will compile all of my information together to make a chart and complete analysis on the information I gathered.

2. Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

To meet my 30 hours I will be doing a lot of research on important factors of water conservation, and then creating questions that I will pile together into a survey. I will then survey about 100 people, and make a chart and in depth analysis of my findings. The evidence I will have of my thirty hours will be the research, the surveys, the chart, and the analysis.

3. Explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.

Doing the research and the surveys will allow me to see and prove how important educating the public about water conservation is. The questions of the survey will also allow me to see what specific things that people know the least about in this topic. The research for my analysis and the creation of it should help me figure out how I could further teach people about the certain aspects of the topic that they knew the least about.