I am very happy that I am interning at thinkabit. I had been to thinkabit twice in the fall but did not get the full experience as a teachers helper, however I gained more experience now. Thinkabit is a great place full of many opportunities and I knowledge. I am learning a lot more than I thought I would be and am very hands on with the work. Since the kids build projects for the second half of the day I feel very privileged to be there and to help guide them to work with others. It's very different from being a student to a teachers assistant. I'm getting a whole new perspective and gaining a lot of respect for teachers, especially when they know how to deal with the hard kids. I am realizing how important it is to listen so the teachers don't repeat themselves and how important it is to be genuinely respectful and kind because impressions can last a life time. Some of these kids I will remember for a long time whether they were well behaved or not so well behaved.
We are given many small projects to do, whether it takes our whole day or is part of our day. We have many projects we complete for them. They range from putting data in and making the data cleaner to help finish the kits or making more career or IOT cards. For example today we had to get rid of the old career cards that the kids get to take home with them and replace them with the new ones. We organized everything by alphabetical order and stored the rest of them away in alphabetical bins. And on Thursday was a whole day full of projects. One of the interns cleaned up the data on excel sheets with the career choices and created wordals, while the other worked on analyzing the IOT data. I worked on ringing career cards all day, which was a much more challenging job than I thought it was going to be. And the fourth intern counted all the kits, the ones with missing pieces and how many we had. We all took part and split the work evenly and completed the task before the day ended.