Yesterday June 11th was a great day of work. I learned that we all share and are connected in a way that deals with our ideas about different types of health issues.We did 2 activities that involved our groups having to work together and in order to accomplish the goal we all had […]
Day 2! Today we had some guest speakers who gave their life stories and shared knowledge and experiences in the Media field. It was very inspiring not only to hear about their struggles and triumphs in the field, but to hear that they were able to do a lot of it here in Austin. I […]
Today, we welcomed some guest speakers who spoke about the differences between becoming a self employed individual and a successful business owner. The members of the academy broke into groups and collaborated on creating a commercial of a product that appeals to a specific demographic. Each group seemed to grasp a basic understanding of […]
My second day was awesome. We had guess speakers telling us about what they job and how they got to where they are now. It helped me understand what i have to work hard to and get better at. Then we did a group activity advertising in a comercial. Today was just as good as […]
On my first day of the e4 youth summer employment course i learned alot. But first and far most i got the opportunity of meeting and working together with my new co-workers for the first time. We started off with team building exercises that tested the patience of us all. I found out that all of […]
My first day at E4 Youth was interesting. I didn’t really know what to expect from everyone and I had no idea what our first task was going to be. Seeing how everyone was already into everything though, made me that much more excited to get started. I think we have a very diverse group […]
Today was very interesting seeing as how I’m now surrounded by the people I’ll be working with for the next five weeks for the first time. The thing that I enjoyed most from the day was the group activities, especially since it took a lot of communication between members to accomplish our goals, and it […]
Most of today was centered around getting to know each other, our differences and our similarities. We did two team building activities, both helped me better understand the people that I will be working with, by giving me a good understanding of how they approach and try to solve problems that are presented to them. […]
I did indeed have funthis first day of e4 youth; I got to meet the other members of the group I will be working with and even found a few people with the same interest as me, although not nessisarily the same skill. I can see my self working with them in the future with […]
Today was the first day, so we spent most of the day getting to know and work with the other kids in the academy as well as our supervisors. It was good to be able to work with some of the people I didn’t know and touch on the topic we are focusing on for […]